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We cannot possibly claim, as a country, that we value freedom of speech above all else. If we did so, we would choke on the magnitude of our hypocrisy. When, in human history, has the oppression of a country’s own citizens paid dividends to either the oppressed or the oppressors?
In recent (…)
:Shirkat Gah staff and network members participated in protests against killing of 95 innocent Pakistani who lost their lives in attacks on two mosques of the Ahmedi community on Friday, May 28th. These demonstrations took place on Monday, 31 May, 2010 and included a candle light Vigil at the (…)
‘The Chief Minister of Punjab, Mian Shahbaz Sharif, or his cabinet ministers did not visit the sites of Ahmadis’ massacre in Lahore on May 28. However, Shahbaz Sharif reached Jinnah Hospital in twenty minutes of attacks without bothering about his security’.
This is how Colonel (retired) (…)
Hundred years of persecution. 1984-2009: 105 Ahmadis killed, 22 Ahmadiyya mosques demolished, 28 sealed by authorities, 11 set on fire, 14 occupied while construction of 41 banned. 2010: new deaths...
First time, back in 1953, six Ahmadis lost their lives when an anti-Ahmadiyya wave swept (…)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-088-2010 May 29, 2010
A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission PAKISTAN: The tragedy continues — the killing of more than eighty Ahmadis by Muslim extremists
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has repeatedly drawn the attention of the world’s (…)
On May 28, 2010, Taliban extremist killed at least 80 Ahmadis and injured around 100 others in twin attacks on their mosques, called Dar-ul-Zakir, during Friday prayer services in Lahore, Pakistan’s second biggest city. According to local police sources, more than 10 terrorists attacked (…)
We, the undersigned Canadians of Pakistani origin, strongly condemn the massacre of over eighty and the wounding of many more Ahmedi citizens of Pakistan assembled in theirmosques in Lahore to offer Friday prayers on May 28, 2010.
Our heart-felt sympathies and condolences go to the loved ones (…)
ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION – URGENT APPEALS PROGRAMME
Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-050-2010
21 April 2010
PAKISTAN: Punjab authorities respond weakly to another violent attack on a university professor by radical religious students
ISSUES: Education; police negligence; administration (…)
Arshed Masih’s funeral was held today amid tight security. The silence of the Pakistani media and government on the matter. AsiaNews sources denounce the attempt at misdirection and reveal the last words of the victim: “The police set me on fire” following the instructions of the Muslim (…)
Christians and other human rights groups strongly condemned Taliban militants’ recent brutal act against Sikhs, a tiny religious minority in Pakistan. Taliban beheaded two Sikhs in Pakistan’s tribal area near Afghanistan’s border, which is mostly under the control of Taliban, after their (…)
LAHORE: Shazia Bashir, 12, was killed by her Muslim employer, Chaudhry Muhammad Naeem, a rich lawyer, in Lahore on Jan. 22. Naeem is a former president of the Lahore Bar Association. Shazia had been working for 8 months as a domestic (child) worker at Defense Colony in Lahore. There are more (…)
PAKISTAN: A human rights activist faces terrorism charges for publicising the murder of Christians, while the mullahs who encouraged the violence remain free
ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION – URGENT APPEALS PROGRAMME
Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-097-2009
13 August 2009
PAKISTAN: A human (…)
PAKISTAN: Newspaper advertisements call for the murder of a human rights lawyer in Punjab; police silently spectate
ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION – URGENT APPEALS PROGRAMME
Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-115-2009
9 September 2009
PAKISTAN: Newspaper advertisements call for the murder of a (…)
A stern, unyielding version of Islam is replacing the kinder, gentler Islam of the Sufis in Pakistan.
The common belief in Pakistan is that Islamic radicalism is a problem only in FATA, and that madrassas are the only institutions serving as jihad factories. This is a serious misconception. (…)
THERE is an urgent need to take seriously the threats being hurled at the Christian community in Peshawar. On Friday, members of the community met the police chief and told him about the threatening letters they had received, asking them to convert to Islam in 10 days or face dire (…)
Government Must Repeal ’Blasphemy Law’ and End Persecution of Religious .
(New York, May 6, 2007) — The Pakistani government should stop pandering to Islamist extremist groups that foment harassment and violence against the minority Ahmadiyya religious community, Human Rights Watch said (…)
LAHORE: HRCP has been shocked to receive a copy of a horrifying Fatwa’ (edict) issued by a cleric in the Darra Adam Khel area of the NWFP and has written to the interior minister asking him to do his duties.
The edict labels international organizations, including those falling under the (…)
IT should come as no surprise that clerics in Mansehra have asked NGOs to sack their female employees by July 30 or face being forcibly stopped from working in their area. It is no secret that right-wing elements in the country, particularly the religious ones, see NGOs as foreign-funded (…)
Amnesty International’s annual report says 72 charged under blasphemy laws, many ‘disappear’ on suspicion of being terrorists.
Staff Report
LAHORE: The government of Pakistan has failed to protect religious minorities and women, according to the Amnesty International’s annual report for (…)
Mingora, A recent convert from Christianity to Islam, Bashir Masi knew nothing of his new faith. He could not describe a single tenet of Islam, nor remember the Qalma, the Muslim declaration of faith, nor name his own children, who have adopted Muslim names. He, his wife Amna and their six (…)
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