Tamergara. Dir. April 15, 2009. (Ghulam Ghaus reports for PCP) The protesting rally of the Jirga elders of Dir upper & Dir lower continues for the seventh day & it has been extended to 23rd April with the unanimous consensus of the Jirga members.
MPA Hayat Khan & MPA Mehmood Zeb Khan also attended

Karachi. April 15, 2009. (PCP) The Pakistani Christians decided here today in a meeting to boycott every function or meeting called by Christian selected members of National Assembly who voted in a resolution to pass Shariat Regulation Bill 2009 for Kazi Courts under Sharia Law in Swat Valley, Malak

LARKANA: April 15, 2009. (Nazir Siyal for PCP) Sanam Bhutto daughter of PPP founder and former premier Pakistan Z. A Bhutto and younger sister of martyer Benazir Bhutto on Tuesday arrived Naudero President House camp from Sukkur Airport at evening.
Sanam Bhutto reached here for the resolution of pr

Dir, Pakistan: April 14, 2009. (Ghulam Ghaus reports for PCP) A grand peace Jirga in Upper Dir area of Sheringal gives a final deadline of 15th April, 8 O’clock to the militants of upper Dir in Doog Dara. In case of denial, the locals will vacate the area & the district administration will be inform

India: April 14, 2009. (Bobby Ramakant for PCP) Bahadur Lal Sonkar (48 years) who was contesting the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections from Jaunpur parliamentary constituency of India, was found dead hanging from a tree on the eve of Ambedkar Jayanti. He was contesting elections from Indian Justice Pa

LARKANA: April 14, 2009. (Nazir Siyal reports for PCP) Sindh Peoples Students Federation SB District Larkana observed token hunger strike against MS CMC Hospital out side press club Larkana.
On the occasion, District President Zubair Lahori, Abdul Ghaffar Chandio, Sartaj Athar Bhutto and others al

Philadelphia: April 13, 2009. (PCP) Nazir S Bhatti, President of Pakistan Christian Congress PCC have paid homage to Altaf Hussain, Chief of Mohajar Quami Movement MQM, on directions to MQM parliamentarians to boycott voting on Shariat Regulation Bill 2009, in National Assembly which shall be ever r

Karachi: April 12, 2009. (PCP) Easter eve of 2009 in Pakistan was witnessed entirely different than previous years when Churches nor Christian colonies were bathing in electric flood lights or decorated. The midnight services of Easter in Peshawar and Nowshera were thinly attended while in Swat val

Lahore, Pakistan: April 11, 2009. (Jawad Mazhar reports PCP) A 43-year-old Christian in Lahore has received threats from Muslim fanatics after publishing pro-democracy letters in a national daily, Aaj Kal, PCP learned from a Christian rights and advocacy organization ‘Center for legal aid assistanc

India: April 10, 2009. "Every citizen should have access to healthcare, regardless of caste, religion, gender, age or socio-economic status" said retd IG Police SR Darapuri, who is the Lok Rajniti Manch (People's Politics Front) candidate for the prestigious Lok Sabha constituency of Lucknow.
Thre

Srinagar: April 10, 2009. (PCP) Hurriyat Executive and Acting Chairman Jammu Kashmir Peoples League Mukhtar Ahmad Waza in a statement has said that the provincial measures which have failed due to Indo-Pak stalemate like ASEAN, SAARC etc. - would build India, Pakistan even whole South Asia a new con

WASHINGTON, D.C. April 9, 2009. Key organizations that work on religious liberty issues around the world made strong statements on the civil war in Sri Lanka and launched a global campaign calling for prayer for that nation. In what is being called "The Toronto Statement," the Religious Liberty Par

Pakistan: April 8, 2009. (PCP) The government of Pakistan awarded a gallantry award to Martyr Major Sarmas Rauf on Pakistan Day celebrations. Major Rauf was fighting terrorists in South Waziristan of Pakistan tribal area leading his regiment of Pakistan Armed Forces. During his posting in Wanna, he

India: April 8, 2009. (PCP) The recent recession has broken the hopes of many workers who have lost their jobs and returning back to their hometowns. This is the time when these workers should uphold their faith particularly in developing a trust that will safeguard their faith. Instead of having a

Srinagar: April 8, 2009. (PCP) Senior Hurriyat Executive and Acting Chairman Jammu Kashmir Peoples League Mukhtar Ahmad Waza said that forth coming parliamentary election is in no way any substitute of Kashmir resolution. In view of the fact that from 1952 till to this date several self-styled p