report in The News, Sept 11, 2023KARACHI: Religious scholars on Sunday pledged to continue their struggle against the blasphemers until effective legislation and comprehensive amendments to the Constitution were done, adding that in any society, it is not permissible for an individual to speak against the holiest personalities of another community. They expressed these views in a conference called “Azmat-e-Sahaba Wa Ahlul Bayt Istehkam-e-Pakistan,” which took place at Shahrah-e-Quaideen on Sunday under the auspices of…
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by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Sept 8, 2023Did the KP Sharma Oli government lie to the nation when it claimed it had informed the international community about the new map passed by Nepal’s parliament in 2020? Most likely, if the foreign minister’s reply to a parliamentary committee on Thursday is true. After unveiling a new demarcation of Nepal in May 2020, the Oli administration told the media that it had communicated to foreign…
By Umar Cheema in The News, Sept 6, 2023ISLAMABAD: A militant having blood on his hands of more than 40 members of the Hazara community, including the Mach attack he masterminded killing a dozen coal miners of the same ethnicity, has finally been apprehended by a civilian agency, the Intelligence Bureau, when he entered Pakistan from Afghanistan. Son of a baildar, a low-rank government employee, Abdul Bari, had been on the watchlist of all security…
by Iftikhar A. Khan in Dawn, September 2nd, 2023ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office has once again asked the interim Afghan government to act against “individuals and entities that threaten Pakistan” and live up to its commitments with the international community. In her weekly press briefing on Friday, FO Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said: “[I]t is their responsibility, their international responsibility, their bilateral responsibility and their trilateral responsibility as they have committed in the trilateral between Pakistan,…
Report in Dawn, August 21st, 2023SAHIWAL: Police booked and arrested a Christian youth under the blasphemy law and Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PECA) 2016 for reposting and resharing hate material (letter), which had contributed to spread of violence against the Christian community in Jaranwala. The youth was arrested from Chak 186/9-L on Sunday. The youth was booked in the first information report (FIR) under Section 11 of PECA 2016, Section 7 of the ATA…
By Arshad Yousafzai in The News, August 19, 2023Members of the Christian community of Pakistan on Friday expressed disappointment at the fact that their community was never served justice in numerous mob attacks against them. They were speaking at a protest held in front of the Karachi Press Club (KPC) against the recent attacks on churches and houses of the Christian community in Faisalabad and Jaranwala. It was said that owing to flaws in the…
Editorial in The News, August 17, 2023As multiple churches in Jaranwala were vandalized and scores of houses belonging to the Christian community were set on fire over alleged blasphemy allegations on Wednesday, the only question we were left with was: how did we become a country where the weakest and least powerful among us are the most likely to be targeted? In fact, if any of us professes shock that such an attack could take…
Edit in The Express Tribune, August 17th, 2023.The unfortunate and highly condemnable acts of arson against minorities in Faisalabad have shamed us all. The burning of churches by a handful of bigots and misguided people, who literally do not represent or speak for the collective conscience of the nation, is disgusting. It has once again brought to the fore how propaganda, hatred and lack of compassionate feelings in a section of society comes to undermine…
by Yohan Perera in Daily Mirror, July 28, 2023 at 09:34 pmTamil Progressive Alliance (TPA) Leader Mano Ganesan today proposed setting up a community police service and vesting it with the provincial councils. “Setting up of a community police service under provincial councils is one way of resolving one of the main issues arisen with regard to implementation of the 13th Amendment,” MP Ganesan told journalists. “Many have expressed fears about devolving police powers to…
By Nazir Shinwari in TOLOnews’, July 23, 2023 at 7:23 PMPolitical Deputy Prime Minister Mawlawi Abdul Kabir said that the Islamic Emirate wants to have positive relations with the international community based on mutual respect, but it will never be ready to compromise on Islamic law. He made the remarks at a gathering at Kabul University. “Now the world has understood this reality, that these individuals are the heirs of Afghanistan and there is a…
By Mitra Majeedy in ToloNews, July 9, 2023 at 8:34 PMThe Islamic Emirate has once again called on the international community to remove sanctions, saying that it is needed to facilitate engagement between the Islamic Emirate and the international community. With the Islamic Emirate taking over Afghanistan on August 15th, 2021, the Afghan assets in foreign reserves were frozen. In August 2022, the UN Security Council failed to reach an agreement on whether to extend…