‘If we showed our faces in public, we could easily be targeted, lynched even. We can’t stay in one location. We have to keep on the move for our own security. The person who succeeds in killing us knows they would be hailed as a hero.”
Looking at the two Christian women across the table from us, we found it hard to imagine the circumstances that have led to them being in mortal danger for simply going about their work.
Mariam Lal, 54, who did most of the talking, and Newosh Arooj, aged 21, explained that they were on duty as nurses on a psychiatric ward at Civil Hospital, a government establishment in Faisalabad, when they were accused of blasphemy.
