Two Pakistani Christian brothers were abducted at gunpoint, brutally beaten and forcibly converted to Islam, according to local sources on X.
Azam and his younger brother, Nadeem Masih, were kidnapped at gunpoint and forced to convert to Islam.
According to reports, Azam was working at his shop as a tailor in Kharota Syedan market, near the city of Sialkot in Punjab, when a well-known Muslim extremist known as Qasim (also spelled Nasim) Shah appeared on a motorcycle, armed with a gun. He kidnapped Azam in broad daylight and took him to the house of a relative, Sunny Shah.
When they arrived at Sunny’s house, Azam noticed that they had also kidnapped his younger brother, Nadeem. The Muslims began repeatedly beating the Christians with metal pipes and demanding that they recant their Christian faith and accept Islam.
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“We performed absolution to save our lives,” one of the brothers is reported as saying, referring to the confession of faith for Islam. The Muslims who kidnapped them made a video of the confession.
Once Azam and his brother were released, they reported it to the police and the two Muslims and their imam were arrested. Whether they will be tried or not is pending.
