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In Hyderabad, a Left rally against forced religious conversion was attacked this afternoon by Sunni Tehreek. Several activists are injured. The rally was organised by Sindh Progressive Committee, an alliance of Left wing parties including Labour Party against the growing incidents of forced (…)
Pakistani officials claim dozens of French Muslims have been training with the Pakistan Taliban, raising fears of future attacks in France following the recent shooting incident in Toulouse.
French authorities are investigating whether Mohamed Merah, the Frenchman of Algerian descent accused (…)
PAKISTAN: The killing of Shias —it is hard to refute the accusation that the military was involved
February 29, 2012
In a cold blooded attack by men in uniforms of the Pakistan Army, 18 persons from the Shiite community of Islam were targeted and killed. The incident occurred in the Khyber (…)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-ART-008-2012
February 8, 2012
An Article from the Asian Human Rights Commission
PAKISTAN: Brutal sectarian violence against Shias continues unabated
It is a recognized fact that a state’s police and law enforcement agencies play a critical role as the first (…)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-025-2012 February 3, 2012
A Statement from the Asian Human Rights Commission
PAKISTAN: The Ahmadiyya community has once again been targeted by banned terrorist organisations
The Ahamadiyya community, a minority religious community, is again facing systematic (…)
Just over a year ago, Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer was assassinated in the most cowardly manner by a government-assigned security guard. Mumtaz Qadri, a member of the Punjab Elite Force assigned to protect the Governor, pumped 27 bullets into his victim’s back as he headed to his car on the (…)
GILGIT: Even after over three months of the tragic incident that occurred at Aliabad, there is no step being taken by the local government to take off the lid on its root causes and the people behind the plot.
More disappointing is the fact that the masses also seem to be oblivious to the (…)
The murder of Governor Salman Taseer by Mumtaz Qadri, a member of the Elite Police Force was a shock but the bigger shock came when an organization of Barelvi sect forbade prayers for Taseer, when hundreds of lawyers came out to defend and garlanded Qadri, when thousands thronged his house to (…)
“When Ghazi Ilmuddin killed Singh for blasphemy nobody said he was not liable to be tried under the law… Today the situation is radically different. The orthodox clerics are supporting their quaint theory of private justice and denying a person’s accountability under the law on the ground that (…)
The following article addresses the Qadri conviction and the public response to it.
The stark contradictions that beset Pakistan’s legal community have also become manifest. Former Lahore High Court Chief Justice Khwaja Sharif is due to appear before the Islamabad High Court tomorrow (Tuesday) (…)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-129-2011 September 28, 2011
A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission
PAKISTAN: Ahmadi students are under threat from the extremist religious groups — government turns a blind eye again
Malice, hatred and discrimination against Ahmadi Muslim students (…)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-126-2011 September 26, 2011
A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission
PAKISTAN: A mass killer has been provided protection while the families of his victims continue to suffer threats
Malik Ishaq, well known as a killer in many incidents of sectarian (…)
The bravery of Pakistanis fighting repressive blasphemy laws must be matched by support from the international community.
In a climate where minority rights campaigners are subjected to an onslaught of violence and intimidation, rare is the individual who sticks their head above the parapet. (…)
The most bothering question, as posed by one Indian journalist Pradip Joshi while commenting on the brutal killing, is “how could he alone have access to supposedly the most secret covert operation upon PNS Mehran or other journalists too had this information but preferred to remain un-vocal”. (…)
While the Pakistan Navy is preparing to award Nishan-e Haider to its brave officer who lost his life defending the PNS base attacked by a militant group, mainly because his institution failed to protect it. Is there any award for the courageous journalist who sacrificed his life for his (…)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-071-2011 June 1, 2011
A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission
PAKISTAN: Invisible agencies take the life of another well known journalist Saleem Shahzad
Saleem Shahzad, who had earlier announced the danger to his life from the intelligence services (…)
The Sadar police station Toba Tek Singh has registered a case under 16 MPO against Tariq Mehmood, district general secretary Labour Party Pakistan and district coordinator of Human Rights Commission of Pakistan under the pressure of Jammat Islami. The Police FIR registered on 8th March 2011 (…)
On March 4, thousands of Christians and Muslims gathered in Khushpur, a Christian village in the Punjab province of Pakistan, at the funeral of late Shahbaz Bahtti. Young boys were beating their chests and women wailed in grief during the burial ceremony. Shahbaz Bhatti, Federal Minister for (…)
THE RECENT VERDICT of a lower court sentencing a Christian woman to death in a “blasphemy” case, and the subsequent murder of the Punjab Governor who supported the imprisoned woman, has posed the very vital question of whether Pakistani society has become intolerant, violent and extremist to the (…)
In the National Assembly all the parliamentarians observed 2-minute silence to mourn the brutal killing by rising from their seats except three members of Jamiat-e-Ulema-e-Islam who kept sitting as this was against their brand of Islam.
In less than two months time a sitting Governor of the (…)
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