Cold shoulder for Sharif

FOR over a century All Saints Church in Peshawar, with its dome and minarets in the Mughal style, stood as a symbol of interfaith harmony. The notion was shattered on September 22nd when two suicide bombers blew themselves up in the middle of a crowd of 600 Christians milling about outside the church just after a service. They killed 85 and injured over a hundred. Even in a country drenched in violence, the attack caused a huge shock. Pakistan’s tiny Christian minority is used to prejudice and to bouts of mob violence, but a bloody suicide bombing is new. The government announced three days of mourning. The interior minister told Parliament he was lost for words.