There is still no news of two Pakistani Christians who were seized on a bus yesterday
in the Pakistani city of Karachi. The vehicle was on its way to a Korean charity hospital
in the city when it came under attack. Lydia O'Kane spoke to the Procurator General
of the Missionary Society of St Columban, Fr Robert McCulloch, who has worked for
many years in Pakistan.
He says, it may have happened because it is as he put
it, “the reality of Karachi at the present time.
Fr Robert adds, that “it is
important to realise that it’s not simply Christians that are being targeted by violence
and kidnappings, its Sunni’s, Shia’s, Ismaili, whatever it is.”
These kidnapping
happened just two days before the anniversary of the Pakistani Catholic Minister for
Minorities Shahbaz Bhatti who was murder on 2nd March last year.
He
had been staunch critic of Pakistan’s Blasphemy laws.
Fr McCulloch says Shahbaz
Bhatti was a man is remembered for his convictions, and a man who refused to remain
quiet even though threats had been made against him. Listen