World Vision in Progress Foundation compensates displaced families of Rimsha case

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Islamabad: October 3, 2012. (Shamim Masih) Rimsha, a Pakistani girl of 14, was arrested in a poor suburb in Islamabad on August 16 after a neighbor accused her of burning papers containing verses from the Quran, in breach of Pakistan’s strict blasphemy laws. On September 7, the court had granted bail to Rimsha against two surety bonds of Rs500, 000 each. She was then flown by a helicopter to an undisclosed location after her release from jail. Since the day, she was arrested Christian families had to flee for their lives from that locality. Many of them were being beaten by the mob on the day this incident happened. Angry mob had planned to set their house into fire, so they ran for their lives on the same midnight leaving their houses opened. Many of families tried to settle down in the forest in sector G-9/4 but due to the clutch of local residents and interference of local police, they couldn’t. Chairman Capital Development authority (CDA) allowed them to live there for few months after their protest, even then local residents seized that piece of land. After the release of Rimsha, displaced families are trying to settle down there in Meharbadi although the apprehension is there. During their displacement, some of them lost their jobs and their house hold items were stolen, as they claimed. During 3 weeks of Rimsha’s in the Jail, these families kept on changing their positions due to their fear. Since the rehabilitation process started, these families were neglected by the local government and NGO’s mostly. But there is one organization seen that has been taking care of these displaced families. According to Farrukh H. Saif, from World Vision in Progress (WVIP), since the day they moved from the vicinity WVIP had been providing them with food on regular bases. After the release of Rimsha, WVIP helped these families by paying them rents on monthly basis. Since then 75 families were being accommodated. On 2nd October, Farrukh H. Saif came from Lahore to pay their monthly rent as per his promise. On the day, 25 families were being paid monthly rent as their compensation and WVIP promised to pay to more families in the coming week. Earlier British Pakistani Christian Association (BPCA) supplied them food stuff on weekly basis through its local representative. BPCA has reached to 38 families and willing to supply food stuff to the displaced families up till their rehabilitation.

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