Early Day Motion·EDM 1190

TERRORIST ATTACK ON A CHURCH IN QUETTA, PAKISTAN

23 April 201824 Signatures

Primary sponsor

Jim Shannon

Democratic Unionist PartyStrangford

Motion Text

That this House condemns the terrorist attack on Christians as they were coming out of a church service in the Essa Nagri, Quetta, Pakistan, on Sunday 15 April 2018, when two innocent worshippers were murdered and five seriously injured; notes that responsibility for this terrorist act was claimed by ISIS; passes condolences to the grieved families of the victims; and urges the Government of Pakistan to ensure the speedy arrest and trial of those terrorists.