Minority rights Archive
ڈاکٹر طاہر القادری سنی ، شیعہ اور اقلیتوں کے حقوق کی بات کر کے نیۓ پاکستان کی بنیاد رکھ رہے ہیں – ایاز امیر: Source: http://jang.com.pk/jang/oct2014-daily/18-10-2014/col2.htm
Tahir Ashrafi is free to enjoy his Vodka if he lets non-Deobandis enjoy their religious rituals: What is this liberal romanticism with Tahir Ashrafi? First, they called him a moderate peace loving cleric over the issue of Qadri and Asia bibi and now they are defending him telling us its his personal matter to be
PMLN Lawyers Wing aka Lahore High Court upholds death sentence for Aasia Bibi: ISLAMABAD: The upholding of death sentence awarded to a Christian woman Aasia Bibi on blasphemy charges way back in 2009 has brought the blasphemy laws back to the light again. General Ziaul Haq was the architect of Section 295-C
شیعہ ، احمدی ، پارسی اور دیگر افراد پاکستان کیوں چھوڑ رہے ہیں – وسعت اللہ خان: سنہ 47، 48 کا پاکستان وہ ملک تھا جہاں پہلے سے رہنے والوں نے یہ پوچھے بغیر کہ تو دکنی ہے کہ بمبئیا کہ مدراسی کہ راجستھانی کہ گجراتی کہ لکھنوی کہ بہاری ۔۔۔سب کے لیے کیمپ ، بازو
The life of a Christian in Pakistan – Lubna Thomas Benjamin: ‘The land of pure’ is the meaning of the name of my native country, Pakistan. The country’s population is 97% Muslim while the remaining 3% is divided into Hindus, Christians, Sikhs, Parsis and other minorities. Ever since the
RIP Harjeet Singh : Pakistani Sikh killed by takfiri terrorists of ASWJ: Please spare a moment to pay respect to Harjeet Singh, our Pakistani Sikh brother. He was killed in Peshawar yesterday by Deobandi ASWJ terrorists. His only crime? His faith. From Khyber to Karachi to Balochistan, Deobandi ASWJ militants
The Hindus facing eviction by Pakistan’s army – by Amber Shamsi: A poor Hindu community is facing eviction from an area in Pakistan’s garrison city of Rawalpindi where its members have lived for more than 80 years. The Frontier Works Organisation (FWO), an engineering branch of the army, plans to
Pakistani Hindu community appeals against the demolition of Balaknash Temple in Rawalpindi: ISLAMABAD: This time it is not Thar or Sindh but is Rawalpindi where an 82-year-old temple belonging to the Hindu minority is being demolished.Built in 1935, the temple named ‘Maharishi Walmeck Sawami Jee Temple’, famous as ‘Balaknash Temple’
Pakistanis are victims of their own curriculum books – by Wusatullah Khan: We are victims of our own curriculum books. How many children know that Pakistan’s founder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah was a Shia Khoja? Which school teaches that the first law minister and speaker of nation’s legislative assembly was a
Pakistan’s interfaith couples stay in trouble: Lahore- Thirteen years ago among the whirring looms of a garment factory in an eastern Pakistani city, a Muslim woman fell in love with a Christian co-worker. Now married with three children, Kalsoom Bibi and her husband Yousuf
طاہر القادری کی سربراہی میں شیعہ سنی مسیحی اور ہندو تمام پاکستانی ,تکفیری دیوبندی دہشت گردوں کے خلاف متحد ہیں: اقلیتوں کا ڈاکٹر طاہرالقادری کے انقلابی منشور پر اظہاراعتماد، ممتاز مسیحی رہنماء جے سالک بھی 17 اگست کو انقلاب مارچ میں پہنچ گئے۔ اس موقع پر مسیحی رہنماؤں کی طرف سے انقلاب مارچ کے سٹیج پر کرین کے ذریعے
An open letter to murderers of minorities – by Zara Hafeez: Attacks against minorities have spiked in recent months to degrees that are callous and merciless. PHOTO: FILE Dear ruthless, relentless and barbaric attackers of the minorities in my country, I‘d like to start by asking you about what
I will not celebrate August 14 – by Naeem Sadiq: Considering how our minorities are counting their dead every day, why are we celebrating anything? August 14, 2009 I decided not to celebrate August 14th this year to show my personal grief, shame and solidarity with the nine
داعش فی العقول والقلوب ۔ ناھض حتر – از عامر حسینی: ناھض حتر عرب دنیا کے ایک معروف دانش ور ہیں اور انھوں نے روزنامہ “الاخبار بیروت”کی تازہ اشاعت میں ایک مضمون “داعش فی العقول و القلوب”کے عنوان سے لکھا ہے اس مضمون میں انھوں نے بنیادی خیال یہ پیش
عراق کی مظلوم یزدی اقلیت پر داعش کے سلفی وہابی خلیفہ ابوبکر کے مظالم – فہمیدہ ریاض: عراق میں شدت پسند گروہ داعش (نام نہاد اسلامی ریاست جس کا خلیفہ ابو بکر سلفی بغدادی ہے) کی غارت گری میں ایک ایسی کمیونٹی کے قتال کا بھی زکر حال ہی میں آیا جن کا نام “یزیدی ”
Xinjiang city bans Islamic dress: Editor’s note: This article illustrates the selective stances of the Pan-Islamist. While many times more Muslims are killed, denied their universal right to practice their faith and driven off a hundred times more land than Palestine, the Islamist
Pakistan: Violent mob sets fire to Ahmadi homes in Gujranwala under police watch: While the local police watched, Ahmadi houses are set on fire by a Islamist mob in People’s Colony of Gujranwala town in the central Punjab, a Province of Pakistan. The incident stated in the late evening on Sunday, July
Sunni and Shia Muslims join Christians in declaring ‘I am Iraqi, I am Christian’, condemn Salafi ISIS’s violence against minorities: Hundreds rallied (link is external) in Baghdad on Sunday to show solidarity with Christians who are being threatened by the Islamic State (IS) group in northern Iraq. Thousands of Christians in Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city are being forced by
Purged by ISIS, Iraq’s Christians appeal to world for help: Iraqi Christians are begging for help from the civilized world after Mosul, the northern city where they have lived and worshiped for 2,000 years, was purged of non-Muslims by ISIS, the jihadist terror group that claims to have
Top ten issues more pertinent for Pakistanis than Gaza: Every time there is Israeli aggression in Gaza Pakistani activists make it a point to clamour left, right and centre to feel good about themselves and also to boost their PR. Even though there are few issues that bolster
The sheepification of Bakistan – by Mina Malik-Hussain: When we were small, there was a month and it used to be called Ramzan. It was Ramzan on television, it was Ramzan in the newspaper with the sehr-o-iftar timings and while nobody had a cell phone
A judgment on minorities in Pakistan – by Amel Ghani: March 15, 2014. An angry mob attacked and set on fire a Hindu dharamshala in Larkana, Sindh. The provocation for this attack was the supposed desecration of a calendar with Quranic verses by one Sanjeet Kumar. By
کوئی میرے دل دا حال نہ جانے او ربا – از عامر حسینی: اس مرتبہ لاہور گیا تو جون کا آخری ہفتہ تها اور بہت سے لوگوں سے ملاقات کی اور دو مرتبہ پاک ٹی ہاوس بهی گیا اور ایک دن اور پوری رات میں نے لارنس باغ میں گذاری نہ تو
نفرت اور تشدد، پاکستانی احمدی اقلیت کی چین کو ہجرت: پاکستان میں تفریق اور تشدد سے تنگ آ کر احمدی اقلیت سے تعلق رکھنے والے درجنوں افراد اور خاندان چین ہجرت کر رہے ہیں، تاہم وہاں بھی ان کے لیے مشکلات کچھ کم نہیں۔ چین میں پناہ گزین، پاکستان
Ahmadiyya persecution in Pakistan – by Khaled Ahmed: On May 27, this appeared on the front page of the Pakistani daily, Dawn: “Gunmen shot dead a doctor from the minority Ahmadi community in Chenab Nagar town in Punjab. Mehdi Ali, a 50-year-old heart surgeon from
Balochistan minority MPA shot dead in Quetta – by Syed Ali Shah: QUETTA/ISLAMABAD: Minority member of the Balochistan Assembly Handery Masieh was killed by his guard in Quetta on Saturday, an official said. He was killed in a firing incident in Nawan Killi — located in the suburbs of
اقلیتی رکن صوبائی اسمبلی کا دن دھاڑے قتل – از سید علی شاہ: بلوچستان اسمبلی کے اقلیتی رکن ہنری مسیح کو ہفتے کےدن کویٹہ میں ان کے گارڈ نے فارنگ کر کے قتل کر دیا – جان محمد بلیدی جو کہ بلوچستان حکومت کے ترجمان ہیں ان کا اس
سندھ میں ہندوؤں کے تین مندروں میں توڑ پھوڑ – از ریاض سہیل: پاکستان کے صوبہ سندھ میں ایک بار پھر نامعلوم افراد نے ہندو برادری کے تین مندروں کو نقصان پہنچایا ہے۔ مندروں میں مورتیوں کو ہتھوڑوں سے توڑ کر بے حرمتی کی گئی ہے۔ یہ واقعہ بدھ کی صبح ضلع
The turning point in Indian politics – by Tufail Ahmad: “It is historically extraordinary that Modi was born in the year (1950) in which the people of India gave themselves the Constitution, a politically enforceable document of Enlightenment ideas: liberty of thought and expression, free press, religious freedom,
پارلیمنٹ ہاؤس کی حدود میں سکھ مظاہرین کا احتجاج – از ایوب ترین: اسلام آباد میں سکھ برادری سے تعلق رکھنے والے مظاہرین نے صوبہ سندھ میں اپنی مذہبی کتاب کی بےحرمتی پر احتجاج کیا ہے اور مطالبہ کیا ہے کہ اس میں ملوث افراد کو گرفتار کر کے سزا دی جائے۔
A Pakistani Christian Couldn’t Have Cross On Her Christmas Cake – By Wagma Jalawan: Ambreen speaks the local language, Pashto, fluently. She wears the local dress and by all looks and appearances she isn’t any different from other women in her native city of Peshawar, in Pakistan’s northwest. But her Christian faith sets
Sikh community protests against alleged desecration of holy books – by Iftikhar Firdous: The protesters claimed that their religious sanctity had been violated as many as 7 times in the past few years. PHOTO: ONLINE Editor’s note: Be Hindu, Sikh Christian or Muslim but be Hussaini. For Hussaini is to stand
Murder in the name of faith – by Zahid Hussain: THE fate of 65-year-old Khalil Ahmed was sealed on the day he was accused of blasphemy. It was his death warrant. He was killed while in police detention hours after he was arrested. A schoolboy, who has not
In reply to the ignorance of Mubashar Lucman- by Akif Khan: The following verses are from chapter 1, poem 10 from Saadi’s Gulistan (Bostan). They resemble a hadith. Somebody ask Mubashar Lucman to issue a fatwa on Hafiz Saadi Shirazi as well and somebody please tell him that Hafiz Shirazi
The Middle East: Salafi Wahabi war on Christians – by Ron Prosor: This week, as Jews celebrate the Passover holiday, they are commemorating the Bible’s Exodus story describing a series of plagues inflicted on ancient Egypt that freed the Israelites, allowing them to make their way to the Holy Land. But
ڈان اردو ویب سائٹ پر پوسٹ ہونے والی ایک خبر – از عامر حسینی: ﻭﺍﺷﻨﮕﭩﻦ: ﻣﺎﮨﺮﯾﻦ ﮐﮯ ﺍﯾﮏ ﭘﯿﻨﻞ ﻧﮯ ﺍﻣﺮﯾﮑﺎ ﭘﺮ ﺯﻭﺭ ﺩﯾﺎ ﮨﮯ ﮐﮧ ﻭﮦ ﻣﺬﮨﺒﯽ ﺁﺯﺍﺩﯼ ﮐﯽ ﺧﻼﻑ ﻭﺭﺯﯼ ﮐﮯ ﺯﻣﺮﮮﻣﯿﮟ ﭘﺎﮐﺴﺘﺎﻥ ﮐﻮ ﺑﻠﯿﮏ ﻟﺴﭧ ﮐﺮ ﺩﮮ ﺟﮩﺎﮞ ﺍﺣﻤﺪﯼ ﺍﻗﻠﯿﺖ ﮐﻮ ﺟﻨﻮﺑﯽ ﺍﻓﺮﯾﻘﮧ ﺟﯿﺴﯽ ﻧﺴﻞ ﭘﺮﺳﺘﯽ ﮐﯽ ﺻﻮﺭﺗﺤﺎﻝ ﮐﺎ ﺳﺎﻣﻨﺎ
Persecution of the Baha’i Community: The Baha’i International Community works to protect the rights of persecuted Baha’i communities. In Iran, where the Faith continues to be viewed as heretical to Islam, Baha’is comprise the largest religious minority. Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, Baha’is
Peoples under Threat 2014: Peoples under Threat is Minority Rights Group’s annual authoritative rankings table which highlights those countries around the world where the risk of mass killing is greatest. Peoples under Threat is created by compiling data on the known antecedents
’پاکستان میں شیعہ مسلمان اور دیگر اقلیتیں تکفیری دیوبندی شدت پسندوں کے نشانے پر‘: ایڈیٹر نوٹ : بی بی سی کی اس رپورٹ میں شیعہ مسلمانوں کو پاکستان میں سب سے زیادہ دہشت گردی کا شکار بجا طور پر بتایا گیا ہے لیکن ایجنسیوں کے پالتو لبرلز اور انسانی حقوق کے نام نہاد