By Nazir Shinwari in ToloNews, Sept 17, 2023 at 8:07 PMShaykh Hamid Mahmood, a member of the delegation of British religious scholars who recently came to Kabul, said that all girls go to schools up to age 10 or 11 in Afghanistan and girls can continue education in specific subjects and he added that education has not completely stopped. Shaykh Hamid said: “It’s a temporary suspension not on education, temporary suspension on specific secular liberal…
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by Malik Muhammad Ashraf in The Nation, August 18, 2023Reportedly, a mob inflamed by a diatribe against an alleged blasphemer by a cleric attacked several churches and homes of the Christian community in Jaranwala on Wednesday. Fortunately, no casualties have been reported. An editorial in a national daily revealed that not only were the churches vandalized, but many copies of the Bible were also desecrated by the attacking mob. Unfortunately, this incident of mob justice…
Report in Dawn, March 26th, 2023KARACHI: Police on Saturday claimed to have arrested two suspected hitmen for their alleged involvement in the recent targeted killing of a religious scholar in Gulistan-i-Jauhar. They said that Sufi Abdul Qayyum was murdered on March 21 over a property dispute by hired assassins and there was no sectarian motive behind his killing. Speaking at a press conference, DIG-East Muquddas Haider said that the police and an intelligence agency, with…