ISLAMABAD, Dec 27: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has condemned attack on a church in Daska in Punjab on the eve of Christmas on Wednesday.

“The grenade attack on the Church in Chianwali in the Punjab on the eve of Christmas, in which three innocent persons were killed and ten others injured, is a most deplorable and shameful act of violence against a religions minority and is condemned,” a party spokesman said in a statement on Friday.

“The list of cowardly attacks on the Christians during the last one year is long and painful and is testimony to the criminal neglect of the regime of its basic responsibility to protect the life, honour and property of its citizens, particularly the weaker and the vulnerable sections of the society.”

These attacks, the spokesman said, on members of a peaceful minority community take place just because the regime has no time to take from its pastime of chasing and hounding opponents and political manipulations aimed at perpetuating itself in power.

The spokesman urged the regime to bring the culprits to justice and compensate the families of those whose members were killed or injured in the attack.

The spokesman also expressed sympathy with the members of the bereaved families and those injured in the attack.

Meanwhile, Agha Syed Hamid Ali Shah Moosavi, chief of Tehreek Nafaz Fiqh-i-Jafariya, Pakistan, has condemned the terrorist attack on Daska Church and termed it a heinous crime.

In a statement issue here on Friday, he said the bomb blasts in Hyderabad and Prirwadhai bus stand in Rawalpindi prior to Daska incident were a part of the same activity that could not be carried out by any patriotic person.