KARACHI, Pakistan — Three weeks after what its owners call a suspicious fire, Gawahi TV, one of Pakistan’s few Christian television stations, resumed transmission.
Sarfraz William, owner and CEO of the Karachi-based television station, said that since the station’s equipment was completely lost in the fire, he borrowed equipment to continue broadcasting concerts, prayers and church services during the busy Christmas season.
“We are doing God’s work and we are doing whatever we can to render our services on Christmas by resuming the transmission,” he said. “Though it is not in the way we had planned on Christmas, but something is better than nothing.”
William and his brother, Javed, who also works at the station, described the Nov. 24, 2015, fire as deliberately set. They said locks were cut and chemicals were sprayed to boost the flames and burn evidence of arson.
Local police dispute claims that the fire was an attack on Christians. Station house officer Sarwar Commando said an electrical short circuit caused the fire. But he could not say how it was determined that the fire was not an attack.
(RNS)
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