by Tariq Saeed | Asif Chaudhry in Dawn, August 18th, 202TOBA TEK SINGH/LAHORE: Punjab police on Thursday arrested at least 140 alleged miscreants, including two prime suspects, and registered five cases a day after violence targeting the Christian community in Jaranwala tehsil of Faisalabad left over 20 churches and over a dozen homes in ruins. The FIRs registered with the Jaranwala City police included Section 295 (desecration of a worship place) and Section 295-A (hurting…
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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…
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 Qadir Kallol in Prothom Alo, July 29, 2023Despite the tensions and heat, BNP and Awami League’s rallies in Dhaka yesterday, Friday, ended peacefully. That is a matter of relief. Today, Saturday, however, BNP is staging sit-in progammes at the entry points to Dhaka. And Awami League has said they will keep these programmes under strict watch. Meanwhile, Dhaka Metropolitan Police last night stated in a press release that no one had been given permission…
report in The News, June 28, 2023KABUL: Over a thousand Afghan civilians were killed in bombings and other violence since foreign forces left and the Taliban took over in 2021, according to a report by the UN’s mission to Afghanistan released on Tuesday. Between August 15 2021 and May this year 1,095 civilians were killed and 2,679 wounded, according to the UN Mission to Afghanistan (UNAMA), underscoring the security challenges even after the end of…
Report in Dawn, June 1st, 2023NORTH WAZIRISTAN: At least two suspected militants were killed and a soldier protecting a polio team embraced martyrdom in separate incidents of violence in multiple districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Wednesday. Local officials told Dawn that security personnel, including 25-year-old Sepoy Saqibur Rehman, was deployed on duty to protect polio workers during a vaccination campaign underway in the Spinwam tehsil of Mir Ali, North Waziristan. A statement issued by the…
By Nizamuddin Rezahi in The Khaama Press Online, May 2, 2023Afghanistan Journalists Center (AFJC), on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, has reported on the deteriorating situation of media in Afghanistan – adding violence cases against journalists have increased by 64 percent in the past year. The organization on Tuesday, May 2, which marks International Press Freedom Day, published a report highlighting the situation of media in Afghanistan and warned of the continued threats…
Report in Dawn, April 16th, 2023ISLAMABAD: At least 854 people were killed or wounded in militant attacks and counterterrorism operations in the first quarter of this year, a number that was half of what witnessed during the entire 2022, a report showed on Saturday. According to the report, prepared by the Centre for Research and Security Studies, the number of deaths was 358 and that of injuries was 496, which resulted from as many as…
report in Daily Star, Apr 3, 2023Significantly more number of girls under the age of 18 were subjected to physical torture in March, when compared to February, found a report of Bangladesh Mahila Parishad. The findings of the report, based on incidents reported in news articles, were revealed to the public yesterday. Only in March, 28 girls (under 18) were reported to have been physically tortured and abused, whereas the number was just five in…
Report in Dawn, March 22nd, 2023KARACHI: Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday expressed concerns over the recent political violence taking place in Pakistan and asked the government to de-escalate the situation and minimise ‘overbroad anti-terrorism provisions’ against opposition protesters. In a statement, HRW termed the current political situation ‘very worrying’ and said that police in Pakistan have used abusive measures against supporters of PTI Chairman Imran Khan. “The use of Pakistan’s vague and overbroad anti-terrorism…
By Imran Mukhtar in The Nation, Mar 5, 2023ISLAMABAD – The upward trajectory of anti-state violence continued in February of this year as 32 percent more militant attacks were recorded in the month compared with January 2023. Despite an increase in militant attacks during the last month, the resultant deaths have declined compared with January. Militants carried out 58 terrorist attacks during the past month in which 62 people were killed including 27 civilians, 18…