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Cipher case designed to save Gen Bajwa: Imran

By Mumtaz Alvi in The News, October 13, 2023ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan, while talking about the cipher case, Thursday said that the bogus case was designed to protect former army chief General (retd) Qamar Javed Bajwa and Donald Lu. “I was the elected prime minister of the country. Treason was committed against me and my government by General (retd) Bajwa. Instead of investigating the foreign conspiracy in orchestrating a regime change, a…

Minorities alliance flays state for failing Jaranwala Christians

report in Dawn, August 22nd, 2023TOBA TEK SINGH: The Minorities Alliance Pakistan (MAP) says the state completely failed to protect the Christians at Jaranwala. Addressing a press conference at the Faisalabad Press Club on Monday, MAP Chairman Akmal Bhatti said the minorities had always played their role in progress of the country but the state had always denied them their fundamental rights since 1947. On Aug 16, he said, the whole world saw how the…

Christian community deplores state’s failure to protect them

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…

MPLRAG accuses Muslim MPs of stonewalling reforms to protect the rights of their women and children

Report in The Island, July 15, 2023Muslim Personal Law Reforms Action Group (MPLRAG) on Friday (14) alleged that Muslim MPs continued to thwart attempts made to amend the Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act (MMDA) to protect the rights of women and children. MPLRAG said in a letter dated 8 June 2023, 18 Muslim MPs had submitted recommendations in response to the Draft Bill on MMDA Reforms to Minister of Justice Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe. Issuing a press…