Muslims torture in Pakistan, says Bruder, says Bruder says

Lahore, Pakistan – Muslims in Pakistan, including a former police officer, tortured a Christian worker to death on Monday, said the victim's brother.

Riyasat Masih by Mohalla Jamalpur in Jamkay Cheema Dorf, District Sialkot, Province of Punjab, said his brother Kashif Masih, a 35-year-old Catholic, has been working on the agricultural property of the former police inspector Malik Irfan for the past three years.

Around 2:30 a.m. on Monday, two relatives of Irfan – Areb Babar and Ijaz Ikramullah – forced the house in which the brothers Masih lived, said Riyasat Masih.

Get our latest news for free

Subscribe to the daily/weekly e -mail with the top stories (plus special offers!) From the Christian contribution. Be the first to know it.

“They claimed that my brother Kashif stole a cell phone from her outbuilding,” Masih told Christian Daily International-Star News. “They carried out a thorough search for our house and went after they hadn't found anything. At that time they did not tell us that Kashif was in their care since the evening of May 11th, Sunday.”

The next day at 5 a.m., the neighbors Masih informed that someone had thrown Kashif Masih on a street in the area and that he was brutally tortured, he said.

“We were already very concerned because we couldn't contact him,” said Masih. “As soon as we received the information, we hurried to the place and found it there, poorly injured with blood that spoke out of some parts of his body. He was still breathing when we brought him home.”

Before Kashif Masih succumbed to his injuries, he told his brother and others that Malik Irfan called him to his outbuilding on the evening of May 11th and accused him of stealing a cell phone, said Masih.

“According to Kashif, Irfan then ordered his seven accomplices, including Areb and Ijaz, to beat him until he confessed,” he said. “Kashif said that Areb, Ijaz and the others started to torture him with wood clubs and iron bars and to hit him indiscriminately throughout his body.”

Masih said that when they took his brother to the hospital to the hospital, they found that the attackers had also hammered several steel nails into his legs.

“I can't express the pain when I saw my younger brother's body,” said Masih. “The brutality showed the brutality that he had suffered from his influential employer and his rackets.”

The police initially hesitated to register a murder case against a former police officer, but after a large number of Christians gathered there, the officials finally registered a first information report (FIR) and arrested Irfan, said Masih.

Babar and Ikramullah received a deposit before the vacation on Tuesday while the police found other suspects, he said.

“We are seven brothers and two sisters, and Kashif was the fifth among us,” he said. “Our father died a few years ago and we all work as a worker to support our families. I cannot tell you the condition of our older mother, which is cruel murder from Kashifs.”

Masih, a vegetable seller, said it was difficult for him to believe that the attackers had barbarically tortured his brother over a mere cell phone.

“If you suspected Kashif to have stolen the phone, you would simply have handed it over to the police or brought the matter to our termination,” he said. “The way they defeated him mercilessly black and blue and hammered nails in his body suspects me that the reason was something else.”

His brother had not revealed any concerns about his employer, he added.

Local Christians offered the family to support their full support in order to maintain justice for the murdered brother, said Masih.

“I am very grateful to my community that I am with us in this difficult time,” he said. “You have not only collected funds to support us, but are also actively busy finding a good legal representation that can help us to do justice to Kashif.”

Christians in Pakistan often suffer from violence and persecution of Muslims. They are also exposed to barriers when accessing justice and their emergency in this nation of Muslim majority further tightened.

On February 27, Muslim landowners kidnapped a Christian worker, shaved his head and facial hair, black his face and paraded him on the back of a donkey because he supposedly stole wood out of their property. Wasif George, 34, attacked at least seven Muslims from the 110 GB chak Jhumra in the village of Chak in the district of Faisalabad, province of Punjab, after he had collected Wood, said his brother Patras George.

“My brother collected wood along the banks of a channel when the attackers came there and accused him of the theft” [by beating] Shaved him, but also his head and face hair from a hairdresser.

The attacker black his face, forced him to sit on a donkey and to take him around in the village, he said.

On June 6, 2024, a Muslim factory owner who tortured 18-year-old Catholic worker Waqas Salamat to death because he had left the job against his wishes. According to the victim's mother, five men, including the employer and his son, brought her son to the factory and tortured him for hours with electric shocks, which led to his death.

Pakistan took eighth place in Open Doors' World observation list 2025 of the most difficult places to become a Christian.

This article was originally published by Christian Daily International -Morning Star News