Tag: Taliban

Six years on, justice thwarted in case of Pakistan’s murdered Shahbaz Bhatti

March 3, 2017 Pakistan Asia Bibi, Blasphemy, Faisalabad, Islamabad, Pakistan Peoples Party, Paul Bhatti, Rawalpindi, Shahbaz Bhatti, Taliban

The memorial to Shahbaz Bhatti, which marks the location of his assassination. Islamabad, Pakistan.

Six years on, justice for the murdered Pakistani Christian federal cabinet member Shahbaz Bhatti remains elusive, as does the social equality for which he gave his life. The Christian community says the Pakistani political leadership is not doing enough to ask the police and the judiciary to ensure his killers . . . Read More

Pakistan bishop praises reward for Muslim guards

October 6, 2016 Pakistan Pakistan, Peshawar, Taliban

A Pakistani bishop has thanked the army chief for rewarding two Muslim security guards who helped foil a Taliban attack on a Christian colony in Peshawar last month. A Christian cleaner, Samuel Masih, was killed, but two security guards helped fight off four suicide bombers, before the army arrived. General . . . Read More

Pakistan: One killed after attack on Christian colony

September 2, 2016 Pakistan Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Mardan, Peshawar, Taliban, Warsak Dam

One person was killed and two policemen injured after an early morning attack on a Christian colony near the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar. Four suicide bombers carrying automatic weapons were waiting at the gate to the colony, which was locked every night. When Samuel Masih, 55, opened the gate on his . . . Read More

Report: Pakistan school textbooks riddled with religious ‘hate material’

August 25, 2016 Pakistan Balochistan, Education, Islamic extremism, Jamaat-e-Islami, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab, Sindh, Taliban

A young girl does her school work in Karachi, Pakistan, in a 2011 photo.UN Photo / John Isaac / Flickr CC A report by Pakistan’s National Commission for Justice and Peace (NCJP) says the government has failed to keep its promise to eradicate religious “hate material” from textbooks used . . . Read More

US religious-freedom report urges government to add 7 countries to worst-offenders list

May 2, 2016 Global News -- No Particular Country Africa, BJP, Boko Haram, Central African Republic, China, Egypt, Eritrea, Europe, India, Iraq, Middle East, Myanmar, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Taliban, Turkmenistan, USA, Uzbekistan, Vietnam

What is happening? The primary US government agency on global religious freedom issued its annual report 2 May. It says “religious freedom abroad has been under serious and sustained assault” during the past year, and says America should add seven countries to its list of worst offenders: Central African Republic . . . Read More

Pakistani Christians in Thailand given temporary ID cards

April 6, 2016 Pakistan Asylum seekers, Gojra, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, Refugees, Taliban, UN

Pakistani Christians in a Thai detention facility, in an image taken from a BBC documentary.BBC Last month, World Watch Monitor reported that there are about 11,500 Pakistanis seeking asylum in Thailand, a 51 per cent increase from the previous year; all are classified as Christians in a recent report . . . Read More

Pakistani Christians bury their dead after Easter massacre

March 31, 2016 Pakistan Easter, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, Lahore, Nawaz Sharif, Taliban

The aftermath of a bomb blast in the middle of a popular Lahore amusement park packed with people on Easter Day.Abid Nawaz for World Watch Monitor Parvaiz Masih didn’t know his son was among the hundreds injured in the Easter bombing of a crowded park in Pakistan until the . . . Read More

Pakistan’s bombing ‘part of wider struggle’

March 29, 2016 Pakistan Blasphemy, Easter, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, Lahore, Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan, Taliban, Terrorism

The Lahore bombing on Easter Sunday that killed at least 70 is part of a wider struggle against extremism in Pakistan, explains a British correspondent for . He was in the country during what he calls an Easter ‘weekend of madness’; it also saw 25,000 hard-line Islamic protestors march on . . . Read More

Bomb kills scores of Easter revellers in Pakistan

March 28, 2016 Pakistan Easter, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, Lahore, Pakistan, Taliban, Youhanabad

A bomber killed at least 72 people and injured at last 300 more on Easter Sunday in Lahore, Pakistan. The bomber struck in the Gulshan-i-Iqbal park, which was unusually crowded with families celebrating Easter. “[T]he terrorist hit a very soft target of women and children,” Deputy Inspector General of Operations . . . Read More

Qadri verdict a ‘victory over terrorism’

October 14, 2015 Pakistan Asia Bibi, Blasphemy, Mumtaz Qadri, Salmaan Taseer, Taliban

The apex court in Pakistan has kept intact the death sentence of a man who murdered the former governor of the Punjab for seeking reforms in the blasphemy law and supporting Asia Bibi, a Christian woman condemned to death for allegedly committing blasphemy. The governor, Salmaan Taseer, was shot and . . . Read More

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