The renovation of a church in Pakistan's Rawalpindi city carries a message of unity and a stern warning to divisive, extremist forces
In December 2018, Pakistan's powerful army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa attended mass at Christ Church in Rawalpindi next to the country's general military headquarters.
Sarwar Ali embodies the values of inclusive Pakistan. For the past one year, he has been offering Fajr prayers in the dusty large hall of the Christ Church. He then proceeds with the renovation of the 160-year-old historic building. The church was built in the traditional Gothic-style with a dome, a series of arches and pointed-arch windows.
Over 60,000 Pakistanis, including soldiers, politicians and civilians, have lost their lives in the past decade in deadly bombings and suicide attacks carried out by religiously extremist terrorist groups. "That shift continues till the day. Besides carrying out military operations the army officers also occasionally visited the religious minorities," he said.
The attack came months after Muslim mobs torched some 100 houses, as they rampaged through Joseph Colony, another Christian neighbourhood of Lahore, following false blasphemy allegations against a Christian man.
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