On 17th September 2005, Yousaf Yahona made an open declaration that he had already accepted and "embraced" Islam "three" years ago and is a practicing Muslim. He unfolded the fact the he has performed "Umara" few month ago. He invited his immediate family and the Christian community of Pakistan to "

While it is true that religion is a personal matter, and Yohanna had every right to choose to be whatever he wishes (though one imagines what the consequence would be had it been the other way around), the way he has done it is a slap in the face of every patriotic Pakistani- not to mention all righ

The Gathering: How to Help Pakistani Christians
Taking a card from the west many educated Pakistani Christians shrug off events like Yousaf Youhana's apostasy. There is a wide sense of powerlessness which manifests itself in sarcasm and cynicism. Most Christians suffering from a sense of insignific

Until now thousands of Christians in Pakistan used to pray for your success as you were the only Christian who managed to get to that position but not any more.
Tell us the truth?
Was it the greediness, fear or an attempt to get more acceptances from Muslims. Whatever it was, now you don't have

questions to Mr. Mohammad Yousuf as well:
(a) If you have embraced Islam for last three year, why did you make the sign of cross while making 50 and 100 during past 3 years? Answer us, because you do,t have right to disgrace our sacred sign.
(b) Do you know, when you come to play in the ground the

People from different nations are shocked and bewildered that why the Government of Pakistan has refused to let this album of peace to go even to the father of the children of the poems. Its father, author, lives in Canada.
Mr. Dave Windsor from Ontario, Canada, says that this action of the Governm

Musharraf was greeted by a standing ovation by hundreds of U.S. Jewish leaders, who gathered to congratulate Pakistani leader for opening public diplomatic contacts with Israel following the disengagement from Gaza and the northern West Bank.
Musharraf was clearly moved by the reception, saying he

The village Mariamabad is in remote rural area and in jurisdiction of newly established District Farooqabad. The trainees of Police constabulary center who are all Muslims created anger, harassment and concerns among Christian pilgrims when they looted, assaulted and misbehaved with women, children

According to a statement released by CSW today, Drew commented that the visit overall was very significant as they met directly with the country's leaders and appealed for change in their laws against international human rights.
The letter of appeal, which the CSW delegation presented to Prime Min

Attock. September 16, 2005. Immediately after summer vacation, the hearing of election petition against premier Shaukat Aziz, seeking his disqualification from the membership of National Assembly will resume tomorrow Friday on 16th September, 2005 at Rawalpindi by an Election Tribunal headed by Mr.

Mr. Ashraf Butt welcomed Pakistani administration efforts the engage in dialogues with Israel through FM Khursheed Mahmood kasuri and Israel FM Mr. Silvan Shalom meeting in Istanbule.
Addressing a press conference here today Mr. Butt said, "We warmly welcome this high level contact and raise our de

Factory Area police registered a blasphemy case against Younis Masih, 40, on Saturday night after he allegedly made derogatory remarks about the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) at a Qawali, arranged by another Christian, on Friday night. Following the incident, Younis was beaten up by local Christians who w

LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court on Tuesday remanded a police inspector and his accomplice in Derrick Cyprian's murder case in custody for a week. Inspector Ali Imran Niazi and Adnan were produced in the court handcuffed.
Prosecutor Rana Bakhtiar Ali said that police needed physical remand of the a

Washington, September 7: A forum at the US State Department will consider the impact of child marriage prevalent in India, Nepal, Ethiopia and Nigeria on the nation's development goals.
It is being organized by the International Centre for Research on Women (ICRW) in collaboration with the State D

"As far as this process of engagement [with Israel] is concerned ... there had been back-channel contacts for decades and now a lot started appearing in the newspapers as well," Kasuri told state television.
"But, we felt that the time has come that we must go public," Kasuri said.
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