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| People from the Pakistani Christian community leave a local church after attending Christmas mass, under security, in Islamabad, Pakistan. |
The Blaze
Nazeer Masih, 55, was reportedly attacked while working in a field outside the his home village of Wandala Dayal Shah.
According to the British Pakistani Christian Association, the attack occurred shortly after Masih warned some Muslim drug dealers to stop recruiting young Christians to participate in the sale and consumption of drugs.
Masih was cutting grass with a Muslim friend when the two got into an altercation with two suspects, who cut Masih’s face and sliced open his throat. The dealers also attacked Masih’s Muslim friend, but his injuries were not fatal.
“This is not the first incident of persecution of Christians in our village, local Muslims are always creating problems for our Christian community,” local pastor Alfred Azam told BPCA. “Before and after our church services Muslim drug dealers swarm around our church trying to sell drugs to our vulnerable youth.”
According to Azam, it is common for drug pushers to hang around predominately Christian neighborhoods. They have been known to beat young Christians and force them to take drugs in the hope that they will become dependent.
“When our older men tell these criminals to leave our young people alone they get killed,” he said.
Patris was one of the first to respond to the scene of the attack, but by the time he and other locals reached Masih, he had died.
Villagers who witnessed the altercation called police and named the two Muslim men responsible for the murder, but police officials reportedly refused to register a report for the crime or take any action whatsoever.
BPCA Wilson Chowdhry said the case is just the latest example of the lack of protection for Christians in Pakistan.
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