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MINGORA: The Maulana Fazlullah-led militants, operating in the restive Swat Valley, have announced a complete ban on female education from January 15 and warned violators of harsh action.
Shah Dauran, the vice chief of Swat militants and in charge of the FM radio, (…)
, by ALI Tariq
If cheating in bed was always settled by the bullet, many of us would be dead. Gerald Martin’s new biography of Gabriel García Márquez reveals that Chronicle of a Death Foretold was based on the murder of the novelist’s friend Cayetano Gentile in Sucre in 1951. He had seduced, deflowered and (…)
, by AHRC
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-274-2008
October 26, 2008
A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission
PAKISTAN: A girl is mauled by dogs and later killed on the pretext of an honour killing
In May of this year a Jirga, an illegal tribal court, was held against a girl of 17 years in (…)
, by AHRC
ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION - URGENT APPEALS PROGRAMME
Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-215-2008
26 September 2008 PAKISTAN: Three more women allegedly buried in same way as five women buried in Balochistan
ISSUES: Violence against women; impunity; no investigation; abduction; murder; honour (…)
, by KHAN JAMALI Muhammad
Dear Fellows Every year in Pakistan hundreds of women, of all ages and in all parts of the country, are reported killed in the name of honour. Many more cases go unreported. Almost all go unpunished. The lives of millions of women in Pakistan are circumscribed by traditions, which enforce (…)
, by AHRC
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-215-2008 August 15, 2008
A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission
PAKISTAN: Bodies of the five women buried alive desecrated by the wild animals
The human remains of the five women who were buried alive in Balochistan province have been desecrated by (…)
The Islamic militantskidnapped 16 Christians in a raid on June 21 around 8pm while they were worshiping at the house of Salamat Masih, a local Christian, in Christian locality of Bansarabad Academy Town in Peshawar, capital of North West Frontier Province (NWFP) Pakistan. About 350 Christians, (…)
, by SARWAR Beena
DURING the World Social Forum in Mumbai, or Bombay as some of the lefties still prefer to call it, Jan 17-21, 2004, a loudspeaker announcement in Hindi was often heard over the din of the crowd, the beating of drums and other assorted noises that formed the backdrop of the event: “Will any (…)
, by HUSAIN Irfan
AS cracks appear in the newly formed ruling coalition in Islamabad, there are other ominous signs on the horizon. The attempts to negotiate a truce with Baitullah Mehsud, the leader of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), have far more serious implications for Pakistan than political (…)
, by AHRC
AHRC-STM-103-2008
A 27 year old Hindu worker, Mr. Jagdesh Kumar was killed by fellow Muslim workers on the charge of blasphemy in the presence of more than two dozen policemen including an officer. The police and factory management made no attempt to stop the factory workers killing the young (…)
, by NAWEED Baseer
HONG KONG, China. While Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf was administering the oath to a newly formed Cabinet on March 31, a hair-raising message was being sent to the elected government from an area of the country that borders Afghanistan. There, Taliban militants were busy executing a (…)
, by HOODBHOY Pervez
ISLAMABAD: A drone is a semi-autonomous, self-propelled system controlled by an external intelligence. Suitably equipped handlers guide it towards an assigned target. The MQ-1B General Dynamics Predator, connected to high-flying US military surveillance satellites, differs from the (…)
, by CROOS Tony
Karachi, Pakistan, 22 February 2008
While Pakistan’s three largest parties are all secular, the mainstream politicians are at pains to justify their policies when it comes to Islam. Sikandria Hayat Janjua, a member of the far-left Labour Party, feels no such constraint. Sitting in a hotel (…)
, by TARIQ Farooq
Women Workers take the roads
Musharaf must go,
Where are the Missing persons?
Over 5000 attends Women Workers Help Line and Labour Education Foundation 8 March Rallies
The 8 March rallies at Murdan, Lahore and Karachi by Women Workers Help Line and Labour Education Foundation attracted (…)
, by SHAH Sadia Qasim
Creeping Talibanisation following the five-year rule of an orthodox government have barred nearly all doors on women’s sports in the Frontier province. Girls who have talent and inclination towards games and whose parents also have no objection are frustrated as segregation is almost total (…)
The government is contemplating to establish shariat (Qazi) courts in the Provincially Administered Tribal Area (PATA), which consists of districts of former Malakand Division, including Swat, Upper and Lower Dir, Buner, Malakand Protected Area, Shangla, Chitral and Kala Dhaka of Mansehra (…)
, by NAQVI M B
The need is for flooding of the region with new social, cultural ideas and politics.
News of atrocities against “sinners” is reported from the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) every day. The suicide bombers’ murderous attacks or remote controlled bombings are attributed to Islamic (…)
, by HOODBHOY Pervez
THE war in Pakistan’s tribal areas is being fought by Pakistan’s army under America’s gun and on its orders. Many innocents have tragically died from bombardment from the skies. Therefore, not surprisingly, Pakistanis are angry and most feel it is not their war.
But Pakistan, for its own (…)
, by RAZVI Murtaza
NOTHING is safe any longer from the malevolence of those who continue to bring death and destruction in the name of God in this increasingly Islamic republic; not even a harmless rock-carved image of the Buddha dating back to the second century BC and which no one worshipped.
The giant (…)
, by WLUML
14/08/2007: Updates and Clarifications: There has been considerable confusion on various aspects of this case and the situation Shahzina Tariq and Shamial Raj are in, especially since people in Pakistan and elsewhere have been misinformed. Nighat Said Khan of the ASR Resource Centre clarifies: (…)
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