ISLAMABAD, Aug 9: Information Minister Nisar Memon has said that “we are paying the price” for joining the international fight against terrorism, describing men who attacked a chapel in Taxila as “international terrorists.”

“These are not human beings, they are savages,” he told AFP in his reaction to the ghastly strike.

“This shows how far the tentacles of international terrorism have spread,” he said.

Nisar said Muslims and Christians had been living together peacefully in Pakistan for the past 55 years since independence.

The strike was a “sinister attempt to drive a wedge between the Muslim and Christian communities.”

“These Islamic militants are targeting us and we are paying the price to be Christians here and to be allied with the West,” Bhatti, who heads the All Pakistan Minorities Alliance, told AFP.

“We are paying the price for being associated with the West,” said the Protestant Church of Pakistan’s Reverend Emmanuel Lorren.

“We are feeling insecure.”

“The terrorists ... should understand and realize we are Pakistanis. We were born here and we live here.” —AFP

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