ISTANBUL, Turkey — Yousaf Masih, 33, a Protestant pastor in Pakistan’s Sindh province, is recovering slowly after being kidnapped, drugged and beaten severely by bearded assailants.
Masih was abducted off a back street near his home on Sunday evening, Sept. 12, while walking home from a worship service. His Muslim captors told Masih that they were taking revenge for the United States’ military presence in the country and ordered Masih to stop “praying for Muslims” in his Baptist church in Jacobabad.
The attackers held him hostage for two days before dumping him along a road nearly 600 miles away. Married with two young children, Masih is undergoing treatment for his injuries. He is the second Protestant pastor subjected to kidnapping and torture at the hands of Islamist extremists in Pakistan within the past four months.
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