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Taseer’s assassin is a Barelvi Muslim belonging to the Dawat-e-Islami, and 500 clerics of this faith supported his action. Most of these mullahs are part of the Sunni Tehreek and are supposedly anti-Taliban moderates. Those who claim that Pakistan’s silent majority is fundamentally secular and (…)
“We have been campaigning for the rule of law in the country. We are going to write to the government about this human rights violation:” I. A. Rehman
With contempt for basic human rights and universal morality, the Pakistani security agencies are intercepting and withholding the sympathy (…)
“It’s like a witch hunt from the Middle Ages” says Sherry Rehman, Pakistan’s courageous secular politician.
A FEMALE MP trying to change Pakistan’s blasphemy laws has herself been accused of blasphemy by hardline clerics.
Sherry Rehman, a leading liberal voice in the divided country, says (…)
Instead of seeing Salman Taseer’s murder as an unprecedented act commanding utter shock and horror, it must be placed on a continuum of rising intolerance and vigilantism that has been given official protection.
The phenomenon of vigilante justice, as supporters of Qadri believe was meted out (…)
A complaint has also been registered in Karachi against the cleric of a Saudi-funded mosque for inciting hatred and making threatening remarks against PPP MNA Sherry Rehman.
“There are no less than 24 groups as of now supporting Qadri on FB and 1 against what he did, that says it all. (…)
Shamelessly defending the assassin and upholding the most contended law, religious parties took to streets, last week. Devoid of in-depth knowledge to the ill-effects and wobbly grounds a person could be charged on; mullahs ignorantly espouse the law as if it is a divine commandment. Not for (…)
According to some reports, more than 4,000 cases of blasphemy have been reported after 1986. However, no data is available that can help find the names, nature of crime, and the locations of all these blasphemers. Too bad and disappointing for the would-be-ghazis as they have been deprived of an (…)
Christians are a minority in Pakistan and how we can face the wrath of majority who believe in extreme manners instead of indulging in rationale debates over serious issues like Blasphemy Law and other matters.
The brutal killing of the Governor of the Punjab, Pakistan’s biggest province, (…)
16 are Christians, 14 Muslims, five Ahmadis and two Hindus have been killed since 1986. Ironically, 9 among them were either killed by policemen or their fellow inmates in jail or ‘committed’ suicide in police custody.
Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer’s assassination by his official guard (…)
Salman Taseer has been exterminated and buried, but not before hundreds of “ulema” declared that not only attending his funeral would be sinful, even expressing remorse on his death would be heretical. It is appalling that a large number of people openly and others quietly endorsed the murder. (…)
A compilation of selected materials carried on South Asia Citizens Wire has been assembled here for siawi.org, Tuesday 11 January 2011.
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(i) MURDER MOST FOUL!
Dawn, 4 January 211
by Murtaza Razvi
Pakistani police officers cordon off the site where (…)
Salmaan Taseer’s assassination is the result of years of political uses of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws, says Salil Tripathi.
Salmaan Taseer was a critic of Pakistan’s blasphemy law, which imposes the death penalty on those found guilty of denigrating the Prophet Mohammed. The law goes back to (…)
A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission
PAKISTAN: Appeasement policy towards religious intolerance leads to murder of a governor
The nation has suffered a great loss due to this tragic murder. A voice of sanity has been silenced. This has happened at a time when the kind of (…)
Pakistan’s leading human rights activist Asma Jahangir tells DW that after the assassination of the governor of the Punjab, it will become more difficult for people to challenge the country’s controversial blasphemy law.
Asma Jahangir is the president of Pakistan’s Supreme Court Bar (…)
The well-publicized case of a Christian woman Aasia Noreen who was tried and convicted for blasphemy under Islamic law was one of the major national stories in Pakistan during 2010. According to monthly Newsline’s polls, Noreen’s case was 4th major story of the year while Aafia Siddiqui’s, a (…)
The governor of Pakistan’s Punjab province Salman Taseer, 47, was shot dead today (Jan. 4) by one of his own guards, elite security force protector, Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri, when Tasser was leaving his car, near a shopping centre Kohsar Market in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan.
The (…)
Labour Party Pakistan stoutly condemns the brutal murder of Salman Taseer, Governor of Punjab killed today by a security guard. We believe that it is not an act of an individual acting on his own behalf. The guard was acting on the consistent instigation of the religious fanatics who were (…)
The government of Pakistan has backed out its commitment to review the country’s controversial Islamic blasphemy laws. On Dec. 30, 2010, Federal Minister for Religious Affairs Syed Khursheed Shah requested that merchants and those in favour of the blasphemy laws to call off their nation-wide (…)
See also: “We shall not bow down to the attacks by the religious right against women and minorities”
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People of Islamabad got together in front of the Parliament House on Dec 30, 2010 in order to protest against a highly discriminatory Blasphemy Laws of the country, (…)
A doctor has been arrested for insulting the Prophet Mohammed in Pakistan, police said on Sunday, in a second high profile case throwing the spotlight on the country’s controversial anti-blasphemy laws.
Naushad Valiyani was detained on Friday following a complaint by a medical representative (…)
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