Pakistan: Muslim teachers attack, hospitalize Christian headmaster
October 06, 2015
The Catholic headmaster of a school in Pakistan has been beaten by Islamic teachers who say that he is unfit to exercise authority over them, the Fides news service reports.
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After Saddique Azam was named headmaster of a school in the village of Pernawa, some Muslims teachers complained that the post had been given to a Christian. When he rejected their calls for his resignation, three Muslim teachers assaulted him. Azzam was hospitalized; his assailants were arrested.
“Christians in Pakistan continue to suffer discrimination because of their faith,” observed Sardar Mushtaq Gill, a lawyer who works with Pakistani Christians.
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