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.
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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