Authorities in Islamabad, Pakistan have bulldozed 115 houses of Christian slum dwellers – whilst leaving the homes of nearby Muslim residents untouched. The victims are mainly deprived sewage, drainage and domestic cleaning workers.
Without warning the Christians, who had been preparing to go to work, were faced with teams of men with pickaxes, mallets and a steady stream of bulldozers and cranes, intent on destroying the homes that had been built by their occupants with cement and breeze-blocks. The families are now forced to live in tents, and other makeshift structures, with minimal insulation, through the bitterly cold Islamabad winter.
The demolition workers also stole woven charpai (rope beds), blankets, kitchen utensils, and other valuable items.
