by Nasir Iqbal in Dawn, Dec 9th, 2023ISLAMABAD: Chairman the Implementation of Minority Rights Forum, Samuel Makson Payara, on Friday moved a fresh application before the Supreme Court seeking early fixation of Aug 16 tragic Jaranwala incident case in which 20 churches and over a dozen homes belonging to the Christian community were damaged. A two-page application reminded that at the last hearing on Sept 8, a three-judge Supreme Court bench, comprising Justice Ijazul Ahsan,…
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Report in Nepalnews, Dec 05, 2023The government has confirmed the death of six Nepali citizens serving in the Russian army. The Russian government has been urged to promptly send the bodies back to their homes and ensure compensation to the bereaved families. In a press note Monday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has identified the deceased. The government has urged Russia to not recruit any Nepali citizens in its military force and if anyone still…
report in The News, Aug 18, 2023The Catholic Church has condemned the burning and destruction of churches and homes of the Christian Community in Jaranwala and wondered with great shock and disbelief how such an incident could happen just two days after the country celebrated Independence Day. A statement issued by Archbishop of Karachi Benny Travas on Thursday said that in August 2023, when we were reminded that Pakistan belongs to all Pakistanis, we have…
Report in Dawn, August 18th, 2023• Army chief vows ‘no leniency’, FO spox decries violence• Amnesty urges Pakistan to prevent misuse of blasphemy laws• NCHR reports 17 churches torched ISLAMABAD/KARACHI: The Jaranwala tragedy continued to elicit condemnation on Thursday, with national leaders and international organisations calling for justice for the people whose homes and places of worship were ransacked and destroyed by a frenzied mob. Speaking at an ISPR event, army chief Gen Asim Munir…
report in The News, August 17, 2023A high-level inquiry has been ordered by the caretaker Punjab government after a violent mob set fire to a number of churches and vandalised Christians’ homes on Wednesday. Around 100 people have been arrested, a first information reporter has been registered, and paramilitary Rangers have been called in to take control of the situation. The mob made its way through a predominantly Christian area on the outskirts of the…
by Asif Chaudhry | Tariq Saeed in Dawn, August 17th, 2023• Violence stoked by rumours of alleged desecration of holy book, relayed through mosque announcements• FIR registered under blasphemy charges, no case against mob so far• Section 144 imposed; Rangers called in to avert further violenceLAHORE / TOBA TEK SINGH: A violent mob of hundreds ransacked and torched five churches, attacked the residences of members of the Christian community and the office of the local…
Report in TOLOnews Online, June 07, 2023 at 10:54 PMResidents of Washeer district of Helmand province left their houses due to a shortage of water in the district. Nearly 300 families have been displaced from just one village, named Grazan. The residents who remained in Grozan said they have to go for hours to get access to drinking water. “We have assigned two members of our family to bring drinking water via motorcycle or donkey,”…
by Quamrul Islam Rubaiyat in The Daily Star, Mar 6, 2023People of the Ahmadiyya community in Panchagarh have been spending their days amid fears of further attacks by Islamist outfits. Many of them, especially the elderly, women and children, have already fled their houses and taken shelter in mosques, educational institutions or their relatives’ homes. They even took their cattle, household essentials and other valuables with them, villagers said. Ahmednagar, Shalsheri and Phultala — the…
report in Prothom Alo 14 Jan 2023Awami League lawmaker Abdus Sobhan Miah alias Golap has purchased multiple homes in New York of the United States at a cost of USD 4 million. But he did not declare the information during his parliamentary run in the previous election. The organised crime and corruption reporting project (OCCRP), a global platform of investigative journalists, broke the news in a report published on its website on Friday. According to…