A group related to the Taliban has murdered at least 70 people in Pakistan as it targeted Christians celebrating Easter.
It's believed mostly Christians were murdered in the suicide bombing by the Jamaat-ul-Ahrar faction, which happened at a funfair in Gulshan-e-Iqbal park in the city of Lahore on Easter Sunday evening.
Women and children are among the dead.
Christians were at the funfair as part of Easter Sunday celebrations, when a suicide bomber blew himself up just metres from the entrance.
Wilson Chowdhry, Chairman of the British Pakistani Christian Association, told Premier:
"This recent attack is a clear targeting of Christians during their Easter celebrations.
"Families celebrating the resurrection of their Lord and Saviour have lost mothers and children as a consequence of this depraved violence.
"Pakistan is not safe for Christians as there is a genocide taking place there.
"Not a genocide that is state sponsored in it's entirety but a genocide nevertheless.
"Unless western governments wake up to this problem the death toll for Christians living there is set to rise exponentially."
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