I’ve just read a well-written, graphic article by Cathy Scott Clark and Adrian Levy – ‘Pakistan’s War on Christians’ – and the nearest Google could find was the following… Can anyone email the original article, from Readers’ Digest or Sunday Times? Thanks. Rowland

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…Pakistan, for gross discrimination against Christians, detailed in the Reader’s Digest article, “Pakistan’s War on Christians,” by Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy (January 2000, pp. 146-154). The Muslim country has turned Christians into second or third class citizens. Muslims assault a girl; her father complains to the police and is arrested 19 months later for a murder whose only witnesses are the Muslims who assaulted his daughter. The word of a Muslim is worth more than the word of a Christian. That is the way law works in today’s Pakistan. A 1992 law states, “Whoever, by any imputation, innuendo or insinuation, directly or indirectly defiles the sacred name of the Holy Prophet Muhammad, shall be punished with death.” This law’s susceptibility to arbitrary abuse should be obvious.

The examples of persecution in the Reader’s Digest article turn our stomach. Pray for Christians in Pakistan; they are martyrs.

Rashida, widow of Manzoor Masih, who was cleared of chalking blasphemy on a mosque wall but was later shot by gunmen on a motocycle, was quoted, “I was driven from my home and my friends became my enemies after Manzoor died, but I’ll never give up my faith–it is all we have left.”

Why is Pakistan still a member of the British Commonwealth of Nations?