August 19, 2007	Sunday	Sha’aban 5, 1428

QUETTA, Aug 18: All Pakistan Minorities Alliance President Michael Javed has urged the government to provide protection to the Christian community in the NWFP who have been allegedly receiving threats from fundamentalists.

Addressing a press conference here on Saturday, he alleged that a letter had been sent to a church in Peshawar in the first week of August threatening them to either accept their demands of converting to Islam or leave the city within a month.

Mr Michael said that similar letters had also been sent to the minority community in Charsadda and Nowshera, but despite repeated pleas the NWFP government took no action against the extremists.

He said that a gathering of the minority group was held at Minar-i-Pakistan in Lahore on August 11 which adopted a 30-point agenda pertaining to issues confronted by Christians of the country.

He demanded an increase in the seats for the Christian community in the parliament and provincial assemblies; annulment of the B and C clauses of the PPC’s Section 295; and making the August 11, 1947, speech of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah a part of the Constitution.