By Abid Mahmood in Dawn, October 12th, 2023NAROWAL: In what believed to be a targeted attack on a Daska mosque during Fajr prayers on Wednesday, a prayer leader, a religious activist belonging to an outlawed outfit and his security guard were killed. Quoting Zulfikar Ali, another security guard of Maulana Shahid Latif, police said six unknown people reached the Noori-e-Madina Masjid in Mandike Guraya Chowk on motorbikes and three of them joined the prayers. He…
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by Kalbe Ali in Dawn, October 7th, 2023ISLAMABAD: In a fact-finding report over the occurrence of blasphemy cases in Sargodha district, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has pointed out the misuse of mosque loudspeakers and pulpit to press for FIRs against the Christian community and instigate violence against them. The HRCP fact-finding mission report titled, ‘Mob violence and the social ostracisation of the Christian community in Sargodha’ released here on Friday, demanded the…
by Irfan Aslam in Dawn, August 18th, 2023“WE were all still sleeping when the announcements were made in mosque loudspeakers at about 5am, inciting the people against us (Christians). As soon as we heard the announcements, we ran for our lives,” Parveen Bibi tells Dawn in between sobs. Her house was situated behind the Catholic Church — one of the oldest churches in the Christian Colony of Jaranwala — in a dingy street. Now this…
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 Dawn, March 7th, 2023KOHAT: A sub-divisional officer of the Military Engineering Services (MES) was gunned down outside a mosque in the posh KDA Township here on Monday, the police said. They said the deceased, Inamullah Khattak, had come to his home in Kohat on leave from Quetta. They said his body was shifted to the KDA Teaching Hospital for postmortem, and then handed over to relatives for burial. Shaista Begum, wife of the…
report in The Express Tribune, Jan 31st, 2023PESHAWAR: At least 61 people, many of them policemen, were martyred and more than 170 sustained injuries after a suicide bomber blew himself up at a mosque in Peshawar’s Police Lines during the afternoon prayers on Monday, police and medics said. Officials confirmed that it was a suicide attack and that the bomber was standing in the front row at the time of the explosion. Peshawar Capital City…