well I was waiting for someone to open a thread condemning death of this poor lady who was trying to help “thankless” Pakistanis…maybe someone did open the thread and I missed it!!!
our media completely ignored it…and more importantly our civil society also ignored it…
99% of Pakistanis will trade anything (and I mean anything) to get swedish citizenship and here is this woman…wasting 38 years of her life in Pakistan serving the Christian community…she was also in-charge of the ministry’s orphanages in Lahore…from our standpoint she was a complete idiot! hain jee…Pagal kahieen kee…! batao zaro…yae bee koi baat hoi…choorray kee khidmat kar rahiee thee…baiwaqoof kahieen kee…
by the way some people think islamic militants killed her…had ho gayee …complete nonsense…islamic mujahideen cannot do such horrendous act…this must be a conspiracy of USA, Israel or India…to defame us.
*LAHORE - Swedish Christian aid worker Bargeeta Almby, who was critically wounded in a targeted attack in Lahore on December 3, passed away at a Stockholm hospital on Wednesday night. Almby, a 70-year-old missionary who spent 38 years of her life in Pakistan serving the Christian community, was associated with the Full Gospel Assemblies as director of their Technical Training Institute and also taught at the FGA Bible School. She was also in-charge of the ministry’s orphanages in Lahore.
Almby was shot in the chest by two armed men outside her house in Model Town when she was returning from her office. The bullet severely damaged her left lung and she was moved to Jinnah Hospital in critical condition. Doctors had then said that she was in acute danger because of excessive bleeding. She was put on life support and doctors tried their best to save her but she had to be airlifted to Sweden on an air ambulance for specialist treatment four days ago as her condition was deteriorating.
Her colleagues at FGA Technical Training and Bible School told Pakistan Today that Almby passed away at Karolinska hospital in Stockholm at 10pm (PST).
FGA Bible School Principal Liaqat Qaiser, who remained associated with Almby for the last several years, said the police were still trying to uncover the facts related to the incident. “We believe that the attack was carried out by Islamist militants as they frequently target minorities and foreigners. But Almby had never shared any threat to her life with us,” he said.
There is no immediate confirmation of involvement of Taliban or any other extremist group in the incident as no outfit has come forward to claim responsibility for the attack.
“Sister Almby was loved and respected in Lahore. She was a Godly woman who had dedicated her life to serve Christians here,” he said.
Model Town Superintendent of Police (Investigation) Ijaz Shafi Dogar told Pakistan Today the police were looking into various aspects of the case. “There are no witnesses other than the victim herself so we haven’t been able to make a breakthrough as yet,” he said. Shafi said there was no credible information to pin the blame on Taliban but the police hasn’t ruled out their involvement completely.*