Peshawar, Pakistan Gunmen killed a Christian clerk and wounded another as the ministers drove home from church in Pakistan’s northwestern megacity of Peshawar on Sunday, police said Two bushwhackers on a motorcycle opened fire on the auto on the megacity’s ring- road, killing Pastor William Siraj incontinently, officers added No bone incontinently claimed responsibility for the firing in a megacity where scores of people failed in a binary self-murder bombing outside a church in 2013– one of the deadliest attacks on Pakistan’s Christian nonage Azad Marshall, the most elderly bishop in the Church of Pakistan, condemned the attack and twittered”We demand justice and protection of
Christians from the Government of Pakistan Pakistan’s northwestern areas skirting Afghanistan have seen a rise in militant attacks on security forces in recent days, numerous of them claimed by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a group which associates itself with the Afghan Taliban Television footage showed exigency services removing Siraj from the auto, and people chanting”Long live Jesus Christ”as they carried his body on a bed through the thoroughfares to a house. Mourners hugged each other and blubbed Pastor Siraj’s coworker– named by Bishop Azad as the Reverend Patrick Naeem– was out of peril and being treated for his injuries, a spokesperson for the megacity’s Lady Reading sanitarium said Bishop Azad said both were church of the Diocese of Peshawar in the Church of Pakistan, which is a union of protestant churches including the Methodists and the Anglicans.