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Pakistani Islamists keep two newlywed couples from home

Compass Direct News (CDN) is reporting that Islamists armed with pistols and rifles waited for two Christian couples to return to their rented home this week, seeking to kill them after the newlyweds complained to police that the radical Muslims had falsely accused them of desecrating the Quran, according to a local Christian legislator, reports Dan Wooding, founder of ASSIST Ministries.

The CDN story stated that Atiq Joseph and Qaiser William and their wives, who requested anonymity, went to an undisclosed location after Christians in Gulshan-e-Iqbal town, Karachi, warned them that the armed Muslims were stationed in front of their joint home on Friday (May 21), said Saleem Khurshid Khokhar, a representative of Sindh in the Punjab Provincial Assembly.

The Christians were returning from having tried to file a complaint against the Islamists at Peer Ilahi Bakhsh police station of Gulshan-e-Iqbal town – where Muslim police responded by shouting angry obscenities at the couples and began secretly planning to charge them under Pakistan’s widely condemned “blasphemy” laws, Khokhar said.

The armed Muslims had accused the couples of desecrating the Islamic scriptures after searching through a pile of debris the Christians had gathered while cleaning their new rented home. The station house officer at the Peer Ilahi Bakhsh police station who shouted obscenities at them and secretly began to file baseless charges against them was unavailable for comment; after Compass made repeated requests to speak with him, a police station registrar said the SHO could not comment because he was ill in the hospital.

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[05/31/2010]

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