The riots are a rare show of anger from a community that has long been vulnerable and unprotected. Christians in Pakistan feel they have regularly been targeted by extremists and abandoned by their government.
Source/Credit: BBC News
By BBC News | March 16, 2015
Protests in Lahore by members of Pakistan's Christian minority have turned violent, with police using tear gas and water cannon on the crowds.
Demonstrators smashed cars and threw stones in response to the bombing of two churches by a Taliban splinter group on Sunday.
The protests came as the death toll in Sunday's attacks rose to 17.
Christians make up less than 2% of Pakistan's population and many are among its poorest people.
There are reports at least three people were injured in Monday's protests when they were run over by a speeding car trying to get away from the violence.
Pakistan's Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan called for calm and urged protesters not to take the law into their own hands as they blocked roads and burned tyres in Youhanabad, Lahore's largest Christian neighbourhood.
Protests have also been taking place in the eastern cities of Faisalabad, Sargodha and Gujranwala.
Christian missionary schools around the country are closed as Pakistan observes a day of mourning.
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