Minorities under attack as PM pushes `tolerant` Pakistan
(WorldNews Pakistan)

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — It`s been a tough month for religious minorities in Pakistan, and observers warn of even tougher times ahead as Prime Minister Imran Khan vacillates between trying to forge a pluralistic nation and his conservative Islamic beliefs. A Christian was gunned down because he rented in a Muslim neighborhood in northwest Peshawar, not far from the border with Afghanistan. Another Christian, pastor Haroon Sadiq Cheeda, his wife and 12-year-old son were beaten by their Muslim neighbors in eastern Punjab and told to leave their village. The attackers screamed “you are infidels.`- Advertisement - An opposition politician was charged this week with blasphemy after declaring all...