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Christian community holds a collective Prayer ceremony for the martyrs

Lahore : A Collective Prayer ceremony for the martyrs of recent terror attacks in the country was held at FGA Ground Bahar Colony Kot Lakhpat here today.

Minister for Minorities and Human Rights Khalil Tahir Sandhu, Pastor Anwar Fazal, Nida Fazal, MPA Shehzad Munshi, Pastor Imran Fazal, Asif Bhatti, Sarfraz Ghuri, Senior Church leaders along with thousands of people from Christian community attended the ceremony. The participants prayed for the martyrs of the attacks and expressed their solidarity with Pakistan Army, Police and Security agencies busy in their war against terrorism. The Minister said that the

​​Christian community is the frontline army of the country in the war against terrorism and is ready for any sacrifice. Khalil Tahir Sandhu said that people from Christian community were martyred in terrorists attacks including Yuhana Abad and Gulshan Park and in future they will be united with their Muslim brothers to eliminate the menace of terrorism from the country with joint efforts.

Mr. Sandhu appreciated the efforts of Punjab to arrest the facilitators involved in chairing cross bomb blast and hoped that all the miscreants involved in any conspiracy against country will be defeated with mutual efforts of all schools of thought and religion.

The Minister also inaugurated a water filtration plant at Pentecost Church near Gill Chowk Kot Lakhpat. Capt. (Retd.) Yaqoob Masih, MPA Shehzad Munshi, Christian leader Samuel Payara, Pastor Jamil Nasir, Member British Empire Haji Muhammad Aslam and residents of the area were also present on this occasion.

Khalil Tahir Sandhu said that it was a great task of virtue to provide clean drinking water to the people by philanthropists. Jail Prisoners are also being ensured to provide clean drinking water, he concluded.

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