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Catholic Church leaders in Pakistan have asked authorities for protection after threats launched by a banned Islamist group in the wake of the Quran burning incident in Stockholm last week which has sparked protests in several countries.
He also asked all priests in the diocese to contact their respective police stations for the security of their parishes, convents, schools and other departments. He recalled the 2009 anti-Christian surge in Punjab province in which Lashkar-e-Jhangvi supporters attacked Christian homes leaving 10 Catholics dead, following allegations that a copy of the Quran had been desecrated.Pakistani Christians, often viewed as Western agents, have been the target of several terrorist attacks in Pakistan since the U.S. invasion of neighbouring Afghanistan in 2001 and the release of the anti-Islamic film Innocence of Muslims in 2012.
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