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Pakistan protest at Downing Street

26-year-old Shahzad Masih and his 24-year-old wife Shama Bibi who, was four months pregnant, were beaten, tortured and burned alive in a furnace.

They were attacked by a mob of Muslims after a claim they had ripped up a Koran was shouted from mosque loud speakers.

Protesters will gather in London between 11am and 1pm to be addressed by Rubab Mehdi Rizvi a Muslim Barrister and former Spokesperson for the Ministry for Human Rights in Pakistan.

Muslim members of the Christian Muslim Forum will also be present to show their support.

Wilson Chowdhry from the British Pakistani Christian Association is leading the protest and told Premier the UK government should stop sending aid to Pakistan.

He said: "These funds should now be taken away or removed if Pakistan refuses to change its human rights record.

"I can't believe people in this country want to see money going to a nation that treats people in such an awful manor."

The Evangelical Alliance is calling for Pakistan's place in the Commonwealth to be reconsidered after the attack.

Director of Advocacy at the EA, Dr Dave Landrum, said this latest incident is a clear misuse of the country's blasphemy law to persecute Christians.

"This barbaric act represents the latest in a long line of brutal acts of religious intolerance against Christians in a country which is set to receive more than £400 million in aid from Christian taxpayers in the UK," he said.

He added that 'consideration should be given' to Pakistan's membership of the Commonwealth because of its failure to reform or repeal its blasphemy laws.

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