Lahore: July 21, 2008. The government must immediately put an end to bloodshed in Kurram Agency and restore its writ in a region held hostage by terrorists engaged in sectarian violence, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) said in a press statement on Monday.
The Commission said: “The p

Gujrat, Pakistan: July 16, 2008. (Report By Khadijah Shah) The four alleged accused, on the directives of Punjab Chief Minister, were sent on judicial remand to the district jail Gujrat, who were arrested in connection with the murder of a Danish nationality holder, Tahira Naheed Tabassum, on Monday

SHIKARPUR: July 11, 2008. (Report by Khadijah Shah) Three immature girls were given in marriage to over aged men under verdicts of two jirgas clandestinely held a couple of days ago at unrevealed locations near Garhi Sahib Khan village, about 30 kilometers from there, sources close to the jirgas sta

Lahore: July 10, 2008. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has demanded the government ensure immediate safety measures for journalists, especially those working in the tribal areas, allowing them to work without fear or intimidation from state agents or non-state actors.
Following the

Alessandria: July 7, 2008. (AKI) - A 15-year-old Pakistani girl was hospitalised after reportedly jumping from a balcony in the northern Italian town of Alessandria.
She had refused an arranged marriage with a 16-year-old Pakistani.
"My parents had already been in touch with his and told me I wou

Atlanta: July 7, 2008. When modern society collides with powerful traditions from the Dark Ages, women die: Police: Arranged marriage led father to kill daughter
A Clayton County man faces murder charges in the strangling death of his 25-year-old daughter early Sunday over her desire to end an arr

Washington, July 4, 2008: (Khadijah Shah reports) United States of America (USA) on Wednesday set more than a dozen Pakistan-based NGOs on its confirmation of fanatics' outfits, asserting they were shaped to hoist finances for two huddles previously expelled by the US government and the United Natio

On Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 – Shadab Khokhar, National Chair of ‘International Christian AWAZ’, Canada’, led a delegation to meet the Consul General of Pakistan, Toronto. A petition was handed to the Consul General of Pakistan, Mr. Tassaduq Hussain, in which the government of Pakistan was appreciate

ISLAMABAD: July 4, 2008. In order to protest against the procedure of selection instead of election on the ten reserved seats for the representatives of minorities in the National Assembly and continued exploitation of minorities in Pakistan especially the Christian community the World Minorities Al

Lahore, July 2: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed its serious concern at the authorities’ failure to redress the grievance of the unlawfully expelled Ahmedi students of a Faisalabad college and urged firm action against the trouble-makers. In a statement issued today, Advo

Karachi: July 3, 2008. (Reported by Khadijah Shah) Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE), from the Press release of Central Secretariat learned that the journalists in North Waziristan are receiving intimidations from a gang of unidentified persons. Receiving such bullying is dismayed and cha

New York: June 27, 2008. The Federation of Indian American Christian Organizations of North America (FIACONA) held its Eighth Annual General Body Meeting in New York on June 21st 2008. Representatives of various Indian Christian Organizations gathered in New York to elect a new Executive Board for v

Islamabad: June 23, 2008. (PTI): Seventeen Christians were abducted by armed militants in northwest Pakistan on Saturday and held them briefly before being freed unharmed early today in a tribal region bordering Afghanistan, police said.
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani strongly condemned the ki

Sargodha, Pakistan (PCP) June 22th: About 700 Christian sanitary workers, led by Farrukh Tanvir Chaudhary head of “All Pakistan Minorities Alliance’s” (APMA’s) youth wing, assembled in front of Tehsil (an administrative division in Pakistan) Municipal Administration’s (TMA’s) office in a bid to sho

Shafique, who was accused of vandalizing the Holy Quran, was dispensed a death sentence with burdensome charge of money (0.5Million). Whereas on shredding the folios of Quran and chucking them in trash, he was given the lifetime imprisonment under the countries notorious sacrilege law, by a session