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WASHINGTON, Aug 10: The State Department condemned a grenade attack on Christian worshippers in which three women were killed and 20 other people injured.
Deputy spokesman Philip T. Reeker called the attack a terrorist act and an atrocity.
“As Pakistan stood with the people of the US after Sept 11, we now stand with Pakistan in confronting this common enemy,” he said in a statement on Saturday.
POPE PAUL: Pope John Paul II on Saturday condemned attacks by suspected Islamic militants against Christian targets in Pakistan this week, describing them as “heinous crimes.”
In message to Pakistan’s papal nuncio Alessandro D’Errico, the pontiff said he was “deeply grieved at the... reprehensible assaults on innocent life” in two separate attacks at a Christian missionary hospital and a Christian school near Islamabad.
“(The pope) unequivocally condemns all acts of violence and destruction, and he calls on the international community to redouble its efforts aimed at building a world of mutual understanding and respect, a world of peace and justice, where such offences to human life and dignity are neither condoned nor tolerated,” the message said.—Agencies
Our London correspondent adds: A spokesman for the British foreign office condemned the Friday’s terrorist attack on the Christian Hospital at Taxila in Pakistan.
