Suicide Attack Condemned as Benazir Bhutto Returns: CEN 10.26.07 p 6. October 24, 2007
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| CHURCH leaders in Pakistan have condemned the suicide attack launched against former premier Benazir Bhutto in Karachi last week, which killed 139 and wounded hundreds more.
On Oct 19 two bombs exploded in the port city as crowds gathered to welcome home the once-exiled leader of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP). “We condemn this dastardly act. The whole nation is shocked by this tragedy,” said Victor Azariah, general secretary of the National Council of Churches of Pakistan. “It is shocking that ordinary people who queued up enthusiastically to see Bhutto had to die like this,” he told ENI. The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Lahore, Mgr Lawrence John Saldanha, condemned “this loss of innocent lives and express solidarity and condolences with the families of the deceased. Read it all in The Church of England Newspaper. |
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