The (reliable) Christian rights NGO, the Barnabas Fund, sends me the following:

Pakistani pastor murdered in North West Frontier Province: part of a pattern of anti-Christian threats and violenceTuesday, 29th January 2008, 17:09 pmThreatened by murder, kidnapping and intimidation, Christians are coming under pressure both from lawlessness and from Islamic radicalism in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province which borders Afghanistan. Most recently, on January 17th a church minister, Sajid William, was shot dead in Peshawar, the capital city of the province. … As well as the murder of Sajid William, there have been many recent attacks on the North West Frontier Province’s Christians. There have been several cases in recent months of Christians being kidnapped in the province, often by militants or criminals linked to Taliban, who demand ransoms or the release of militants held in Pakistani jails. Christian schools have suffered bomb attacks for failing to adhere to Islamic values. The continuing persecution of Christians in the province was shown by the series of threats made against Christians in 2007 to convert to Islam or be killed.

There are far more Christians in Pakistan than, say, Palestinians in Gaza.

But will The New York Times, or the BBC, or CNN International, cover a story that doesn’t involve demeaning Israel or the United States?