Dead bodies of Arifa and Akhtar.
Report:
bibles4mideast.com
It
is over five years the two teenage
sisters named Arifa, 17, and Akhtar, 19, were kidnapped and gunned down by
“Lashkar-e-Taiba”, a Pakistan based Islamic militant terrorist group in
Indian-controlled northern Kashmir, bordering Pakistan.
The
victims were the daughters of Gulam Nabi Dar, who was working as a salesman of
a government ration shop.
The
girls were illiterates, but doing embroidery works as well as attending classes
to learn read and write in an adult education center which was run by an
underground ministries of the “Bibles for Mideast (http://bibles4mideast.com)”.
Though they were Muslims, they believed in Jesus Christ and attend prayer services
and began to read the New Testament.
Once,
Pastor Paul, who is the Director of Bibles for Mideast and also a converted Christian
from Islam shared his testimony along with the message of the gospel in that
small community. After the message Arifa
and Akhtar together read Isaiah Chapter 53 and declared their faith in Jesus
Christ and accepted Him as their Savior
and Lord.
The
very next day evening they were shot dead after abduction by at least three
gunmen.
Certainly, the militants might have come to know about
the underground ministries and the girls’ involvement in its activities.
Militants
barged into the house and forcibly took the girls, Their bullet riddled bodies
were later found some distance away from their home. One of them was shot in
the left eye.
Police
sources said that the gunmen managed to escape under the cover of darkness.
The
teenagers family was living in two rooms and their father was not yet reached
back home from his work place.
Arifa and Akhtar.
At
time of incident there were two other women, both aunts of Arifa and Akhtar in
the house, besides a young girl, and a relative who had come to visit the
family. The women raised an alarm and ran after the gunmen, but stopped
following threats from the gunmen. Their elder brother was living with his
maternal uncles house at another village while as their younger brother was at
home when they were abducted and brutally murdered.
“One
of the gunmen was covered his face by a black muffler. Only his eyes were
visible. Two others followed him. They were speaking Urdu. One spoke a few
words in Kashmiri,” said their younger brother Gulam Jeelani.
After this incident, local missionary Pastor Idris and his
assistant were attacked with steel pipes. Pastor’s legs were broken. Pastor Paul and family also threatened to
kill and brutally attacked.
Lashkar-e-Taiba,
or the 'Army of the Righteous', seeks to introduce an Islamic state in South
Asia and to "liberate" Muslims in Indian-controlled Kashmir.
India
has identified the group as the alleged masterminds behind the 2008 terror
attack on the Indian financial capital of Mumbai that killed 166 people.
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