The two churches would be completed “soon”, says Saddozai. PHOTO: ABID NAWAZ/ EXPRESS
LAHORE:
Fifty of the 112 Joseph Colony houses, which were set on fire last week, were repaired and handed over to the families on Friday, claimed Communication and Works officials.
Construction on the 121 affected units – 112 houses, seven shops and two churches – was started the day after the incident. The Lahore Development Authority and Communication and Works had awarded the contracts to repair the affected structures.
C&W’s Sabir Khan Saddozai told The Express Tribune that the two churches would be completed “soon”. Saddozai said that with work going on round the clock, the rest of the houses would also be handed over to the families in a few days. District Coordination Officer Noorul Amin Mengal also visited the colony along with American consulate officials and was briefed about the pace of work.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 16th, 2013.
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I'm so glad this community is getting the restoration it needs. What caused the fire? Hopefully no one was harmed. :)
According to careful estimates, during the five-year tenure of Shahbaz Sharif as chief minister of Punjab, over 200 Ahmadis, Christians and Shias were killed in the province in hate-drive attacks, with some of the horrific attacks targeting the minority communities taking place in Lahore. In an almost similar incident, hundreds of hooligans belonging to the Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) attacked a Christians’ locality in Gojra city on July 31, 2009 and burnt alive eight members of a family besides setting ablaze over 100 houses. The failure of the Punjab government to prosecute any of the 70 accused held responsible for the gory incident had compelled the family head to leave Pakistan after the Punjab police failed to arrest the culprits who were hurling death threats to him for pursuing the case.