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Pakistan: Bishops protest after killing at Catholic School

By IBNS
Jun 7, 2023 ..

Pakistan's Catholic Bishops have said they have a limit to their patience after the horrific attack on Sangota Public School on May 17 in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s Swat District.


This is the message sent by Bishops to their followers and the government.

Due to the sectarian tensions, police posted an officer outside the school’s gate. However, on May 17 the policeman, one Alam Khan, opened fire against a school van, killing two girls (one aged only nine) and wounding five others and an adult. The policeman was arrested, reports Bitter Winter.

However, relatives of the victims and supporters of the school are protesting, as the incident has been officially blamed on the “mental health” of the man, without investigating his possible relations with Muslim extremist groups, the news portal reported.

Archbishop Joseph Arshad of Islamabad-Rawalpindi, was quoted as saying by Bitter Winter, “We feel threatened and insecure amid growing terrorism in the country. This is regrettable.”

Archbishop Sebastian Shaw of Lahore said in a statement that, “We Catholics, and Christians in general, run some girls-only schools. And some people are against the education of women, in Pakistan and elsewhere. This man oversaw security for the children, the staff, the parents, everybody. That is what he was paid for. But in a moment of madness, he did this because the school teaches girls. This shows how aggressive these groups that are opposed to women’s education can be.”

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