Washington DC: (By Ahmmar Mustikhan) Under federal law a non-citizen cannot be appointed to a position for which a qualified U.S citizen is available. Ovais Tohid was initially poised to become chief of Urdu service but is now an advisor

A woman journalist, originally from Pakistan&rsqu

London: (By Hannah Chowdhry and Juliet Chowdhry) Ruth Pfau, was a German nun who devoted her life to combatting leprosy in Pakistan.

She went to Karachi in 1960 and spent over half a century taking care of some of the country’s sickest and poorest people.

Dr Ruth Pfau, i

Faisalabad: Human Rights Focus Pakistan (HRFP) welcomes the local court orders to police for Hoorab Basharat safe returns to home from Dar-Ul-Aman, a women shelter. 

Hoorab, a Christian girl, aged 12 resident of district Faisalabad, Pakistan was in Dar-Ul-Aman from 17 February, 202

London: (By Hannah Chowdhry and Juliet Chowdhry) A former illiterate Christian orphan – the only surviving member of his family, after his 10 year old brother Badil Masih was sodomized and killed by Muslim employers, is showing good progress in his education.   

Soo

London: (By Hannah Chowdhry and Juliet Chowdhry) War rages on between Russia and Ukraine which passed beyond a year’s duration since the invasion on February 24th 2022.

British Asian Christian Association has been providing aid to Ukrainians in Odessa since the outset of the war v

London: (By Hannah Chowdhry and Juliet Chowdhry) British Asian Christian Association, has noticed a surge in visitors to our ‘Meals for the Needy’ project based at Clementswood Community Centre in Ilford.

To help struggling families to cope with the economy and our regular h

Pakistan: (By Ahmar Mustikhan) This year at least 50 people, mostly women, have been killed in the name of honor in feudal dominated Sindh province. Just saying hello to member of the opposite sex may get the man, woman killed.

Winners of Zaratoon Faqir Muhammad Durra Khan Award: Umm-I-

London: (By Hannah Chowdhry. And Juliet Chowdhry) We are happy to announce that she has now had the new leg cast and it was fitted on 19th February 2023.  Aleeza and is displaying great mobility again and we share a video below.  We thank all donors that contributed to this wo

London: (By Hannah Chowdhry and Juliet Chowdhry) Christmas is the time when children across the world receive gifts and the custom in Pakistan is for them to be gifted new clothes and shoes, usually from their parents.

BACA has always been deeply concerned about the needs of the childre

London: (By Hannah Chowdhry and Juliet Chowdhry) New statutory guidance on the recording of so-called non-crime hate incidents will ensure police prioritise freedom of expression, the Home Secretary has announced.

Under a new draft code of practice laid before Parliament today, the poli

London: (By Hannah Chowdhry and Juliet Chowdhry) The disfigured remains of a Christian child were found in a playground, in the area of Khaliq Nagar,  Lahore, on Sunday.

Forensic examination of the remains has led investigators to believe the child was sodomized, killed and hi

London: (By Hannah Chowdhry and Juliet Chowdhry) A shocked teenager has joined many voices in condemning the recent death threats to 4 school boys suspended from a West Yorkshire school, for allegedly desecrating the Koran.

The boys faced death threats and in a video shared by the Daily

New York: Today, (March 10, 2023) the United Nations observed the First International Day to Combat Islamophobia. It was chaired by Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, as the Chair of OIC and addressed among others by Antonio Guterres, the Secretary General of the United Nations, Csaba Kőrösi, the Presi

Faisalabad:  Human Rights Focus Pakistan (HRFP) observed International Women's Day under the UN theme of “DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality” and the Minority Women issues. This year the minority women and youth belonging to different fields of lives

 Pakistan: (PPF) As the world observes International Women’s Day, Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) calls attention to the attacks, harassment and abuse that women journalists in Pakistan face and urges the need for tackling such attacks on women in the media. The safety — both phy