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, by YUSUFZAI Ashfaq
PESHAWAR, May 12 (IPS) - In a remote valley that rises high in the Hindu Kush mountains, a jirga (grand council of village elders) has decided that anybody reporting so-called ’honour’ killings or filing a police complaint must also be put to death.
The jirga, held in Nehag Dara in the (…)
, by JAN Zahid
Jirga to kill anyone reporting honour killing cases to police
Daily Times, April 29, 2006 By Zahid Jan
DIR: Anyone reporting an honour killing case to the police or filing a case with the court will be killed by the jirga (tribal court) since the publicising of such cases has brought a bad (…)
, by Dawn (Pakistan)
IT is disappointing to hear that a jirga in the Upper Dir region of the NWFP has banned the registering of honour crimes on the pretext that they are part of local culture. In vowing to uphold their tradition, tribal elders have also warned of strict action against anyone who registers an (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
Islamabad: after expressing their serious concern, the civil society organizations have out rightly rejected the World Bank Pakistan Country Gender Assessment Report, released on May 5, 2006. They demanded the government not to endorse it. It was maintained in a crowded press conference here on (…)
, by FATAH Tarek, HUSSAIN Zahid
Cover letter from Tarek Fatah
Friends,
NewsLine is Pakistan’s most respected monthly magazine with enviable credibility. Their cover story is a chilling report from Pakistan’s border town of Miranshah, an Al-Qaeda stronghold where the Taliban imposed their version of Shariah earlier this (…)
, by The News (Pakistan)
EditorialThe News International, January 27 and 29, 2006.
IT’S ONLY A RACE
Once again the MMA and the government are at loggerheads over the Lahore marathon being held today. The MMA is bent upon stopping this ’vulgar activity’ from taking place at all cost. They have vowed to peacefully (…)
, by Dawn (Pakistan)
Editorial of “Dawn” (Pakistan), January 29, 2006.
THE verdict by an additional district and sessions judge in Peshawar ordering the amputation of the hand and foot of a person convicted of robbery will only serve to embolden the extremists in the country. The judge delivered his verdict after (…)
, by HUSAIN Irfan
IN most countries, a marathon race would merit a few paragraphs in the sports or city pages. Here, the entire nation waits with bated breath to see what the mullahs of the MMA will do to disrupt the event in Lahore on Sunday.
The Punjab chief minister has tried to reach a compromise, but for (…)
, by NAQVI M B
The Pakistani government caved in to opposition from fundamentalist forces on the question of madrassas
Time was, less than six months ago, when Pakistan’s General-President had issued the edict that all foreign students studying in religious seminaries should leave the country by December 31 (…)
On Tuesday, the National Assembly rejected a bill proposing amendments to the Offence of Zina (Enforcement of Hudood) Ordinance 1979, which requires a rape victim to present four male witnesses to substantiate her claim or be convicted of fornication or adultery and/or face punishment for lying. (…)
, by SULEHRIA Farooq
“In an imperfect society, a healthy man seems sick and a sick one healthy”. Naguib Mahfouz
General Pervez Musharraf’s non-stop vitriolic on innocent, unfortunate rape victims is not merely unbecoming but absurd too. More absurd, in fact, than unbecoming. Blaming Dr Shazia for damaging (…)
, by NWFP Assembly
The NWFP Assembly on July 14 passed the controversial Hasba Bill amid uproar and desk thumping by the opposition members and full-throated slogans of “Allah-o-Akbar” (God is Greatest) by the treasury members.
A coalition of six fundamentalist parties MMA managed to form (…)
, by ATTA Rizwan, BABAR Farhatullah, JEHANGIR Asma
No To NWFP Talibanisation
, by SARWAR Beena
In Lahore, for women’s rights
, by TARIQ Farooq
Arrested for running jointly
, by TARIQ Farooq
Women’s rights activist murdered
, by Joint Action Committee for People’s Rights [Lahore, Pakistan]
Once again, a Pakistani woman has been subjected to rape and torture. Once again attempts are being made to spare the real culprits. Once again, a woman, traumatized, her life endangered may be forced to leave her country. The woman is Dr. Shazia Khalid.
The Joint Action Committee is deeply (…)
, by McCombes Alan
Arshad Khan is an educated man with a B.Sc. in botany and zoology. But out to feed his young family in Rawalpindi he now drives a taxi. On a long journey down into the Northwest Frontier he points out geographical, cultural and historical landmarks. He also explains his support for an Islamic (…)
, by RIZVI Majida, ZUBERI Danish
Will the NCSW’s latest recommendation to repeal the Hudood Ordinances finally put an end to the dreaded law?
Interview - Justice (retd.) Majida Rizvi
The Hudood Ordinances were promulgated in 1979 by Zia-ul-Haq in his drive towards Islamisation. The laws came into focus in the early ’80s (…)
, by ALAVI Hamza
Religious fundamentalism has become a powerful and dangerous force in Pakistan, due mainly to the opportunism of successive political leadership that has pandered to it. Militant sectarian religious groups and parties, led by half-educated and bigoted mullahs, many of them armed to the teeth, (…)
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