LARKANA: July 1, 2010. (By Nazir Siyal) Mehran Welfare Trust (MWT) Larkana sponsored by the Sindh Aids Control Program (SACP) organized one day workshop with the media personnel’s on current situation of HIV/Aids here at Larkana Press Club on Wednesday.
The fascilitators of workshop on the occasion

Goa was a Portuguese colony until 1961. It has achieved remarkable progress since Independence particularly in the core sectors such as Education. The literacy rate in Goa then was 30 percent and it has now expanded to 85 percent. In 1961, in my own village, there was just one primary school with ab

Rabat - Fez, the intellectual capital of Morocco, hosted a significant spiritual music festival from 4 to 12 June, based on a message of coexistence, peace and purity of soul.
According to its website, the Fez Festival of World Sacred Music “represents the spiritual heart of Islam – peaceful, plur

Karachi, Pakistan: June 29, 2010. (PCP) Sadly, the recent violence against the Ahmadi community, which left 80 worshippers dead at an Ahmadi mosque in Lahore, is not a new phenomenon. Religious minorities in Pakistan – particularly Ahmadis, Christians, Shi’ites and Hindus – have been increasingly pe

Karachi: June 29, 2010. Pakistan Peoples Party PPP Minority Wing leaders vowed to foil conspiracy against Churches and clergy in Pakistan in a press conference at Karachi Press Club on June 23, to counter alleged propaganda to draw lines among Christian and Pakistan Peoples Party.
Anwar Lal Dean,

Cairo: June 29, 2010. (By By Mary Abdelmassih) One of the most explosive issues in the relations between Christians and Muslims of Egypt is the abduction of Christian Coptic minor girls, to force them to embraced Islam, after humiliating and demeaning them psychologically and morally.
This dange

Khanewal, Pakistan: (PCP) Jun 27th: Christian residents of village 23/10-R Katcha Khoh Khanewal, off the Vehari road were forced by local Muslim landlords to evict their homes by coming Thursday July 01st. PCP leant through first hand information of local Christian residents on June 27th.
Talking

WASHINGTON, DC: June 27, 2010. (PCP) Pakistan is dragging its feet on issuing visa to the Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances [AFAD] to go to Pakistan and meet with family members of the victims in Balochistan and elsewhere.
This was stated Saturday evening by Mary Aileen D. Bacalso

LARKANA: June 27, 2010. (By Nazir Siyal) Speaker Sindh Assembly Nisar Ahmed Khuhro has said that fixing of the artificial limbs to the suffering patients/disable persons was the real services for ailing humanity, after the rehabilitation those disable will be able to walk and work frequently to perf

Washington DC: June 27, 2010. (R.E.A.L.) On June 26, 2010, at the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Washington DC, Muslim women, Muslim men, and other supporters of human rights called for women's rights in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Specifically, the Muslims for Progressive Values (MPV). led by DC

I was happy to read that 26th June is being observed as “International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking”. There is an increase in alcohol and drug abuse these days, mainly among the youth. I was going through a bad phase of life, drowned in alcohol and loneliness. After my wedding last

Toronto: June 26, 2010: (PCP) On the occasion of the G-8 and G-20 summits (June 25-27), Peace and Justice Forum (PJF) has urged the leaders and Presidents of the European Council and Commission for their help in encouraging both India and Pakistan to come up with some kind of a road map, in their ne

Muzaffarabad: June 26, 2010. (PCP) On the call of Tareek Tameer-e- Nau (TTN) hundreds of citizens staged ademonstration against the delay of rebuilding process and vowed to carry on efforts till the completion of their demands. The protesters showed their resentment and dismay over the cuts on appro

Ban Ki-Moon
Secretary- General
United Nations Organization
United Nations Secretariat New York, NY 10017-3515

Subject: Deteriorating human rights situation in Pakistan and Iranian controlled Balochistan

Dear Secretary General,
On the occasion of International Day against Torture in sup

Faisalabad: June 25, 2010. (PCP) A 73 year old Christian named Rehmat Masih son of Barkat Masih resident of village Jandwali Chak # 165/RB, Teshil Jhumra, District Faisalabad has been charged under blasphemy law vide FIR # 321 dated 19th June 2010, under section 295-C of Pakistan Penal Code with Pol