Pakistani exiles living in London who have criticised the country’s powerful military have been warned that their lives are in danger, raising fresh concern over authoritarian regimes targeting foreign dissidents in the UK.
British security sources are understood to be concerned that Pakistan, a strong UK ally – particularly on intelligence issues – might be prepared to target individuals on British soil.
Pakistan a “strong ally?” Now that’s a laugh.
Pakistan on Thursday deployed paramilitary troops in a conservative town in the eastern Punjab province, a day after a Muslim crowd attacked and badly damaged a Hindu temple there.
In Delhi, India’s foreign ministry summoned a Pakistani diplomat to protest against the attack and demand protection for Hindus living in the predominantly Muslim Pakistan.
Wednesday’s attack took place in the town of Bhong in Rahim Yar Khan district after a court granted bail to an eight-year-old Hindu boy who allegedly desecrated a madrassa, or religious school, earlier in the week. The mob damaged statues, burned down the temple’s main door and briefly blocked a nearby road.
According to the owner of the goat, five men kidnapped the animal tied in front of his house on July 24 and took it to a deserted area a few kilometers away.
“They tied the goat’s legs and mouth and kept raping her until it died,” Azhar Hussain said. The animal was taken to a veterinary hospital in the neighbourhood where its post-mortem report corroborated the rape.
A case under sections 377 [unnatural offences] and 429 [mischief by killing or maiming cattle, etc., of any value or any animal of the value of fifty rupees] of the Pakistan Penal Code has been registered.
Faisalabad imam arrested for attempted rape of two girls
The imam of a mosque in Faisalabad has been arrested after a video of him trying to rape two small girls inside went viral on social media.
The girls are five and seven years old.
Police said that they received the information that the attack took place in Chak 59GB of District Faisalabad.
Locals identified the man in the video. The imam was arrested and an FIR was registered under Sections 376 (for rape), 511 and 295 of the Pakistan Penal Code.
LAHORE, Pakistan, July 3 (Reuters) – A Pakistani police constable has been arrested over the murder of a man who was acquitted of blasphemy charges last year, a police spokesman said.
Ahmed Nawaz told Reuters that Muhammad Waqas was hacked to death on Friday in the central Pakistani district of Sadiqabad.
He said the suspect, a 21-year-old man who joined the force just months ago, told investigators he killed Waqas because “he had committed blasphemy”.
The minister announced the extension during the weekly Public Health Agency of Canada press conference just one day before the original ban was set to expire.
…The Charismatic Social Integration of Canada (CIOSC) is a Pakistani Christian advocacy group that recently expressed concern about possible deportations of Christians to Pakistan in this current political climate.
In a press release sent to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the CIOSC stated that “in such a volatile and religiously charged atmosphere, Immigration Canada is making decisions to deport the failed refugee claimants. These decisions are incomprehensible and reprehensible since Canada claims to be a compassionate and humane country.”
Western governments should penalize Holocaust denial and insulting the Prophet Muhammad in the same manner, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said Saturday.
Denying the Holocaust is an illegal offense in several European countries — including Germany and France — and offenders can be sent to prison.
Khan wants to see governments take an equally harsh position on those who blaspheme against the Prophet Muhammad.
“I … call on Western governments who have outlawed any negative comment on the holocaust to use the same standards to penalise those deliberately spreading their message of hate against Muslims by abusing our Prophet,” Khan tweeted.
Pakistan has blocked access to all social media after days of violent anti-France protests by radical Islamists over ‘blasphemous’ cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
Facebook and Twitter and other sites have been temporarily blocked on orders from the country’s interior ministry said Khurram Mehran, a spokesman for Pakistan’s media regulatory agency.
A reason for the block has not been provided and comes as police officials prepare to clear a large demonstration in the eastern city of Lahore.
Members of the far-right Tehreek-e-Labiak Pakistan (TLP) clashed with police in Pakistan on Tuesday after the party’s leader was arrested for demanding the expulsion of the French ambassador, officials said.
At least one police officer and one protester died during the second day of clashes in Lahore, the country’s second-largest city, authorities told Reuters.
Activists blocked crucial transport routes overnight, demanding the release of TLP leader Saad Rizvi.
Two Christian women face allegations of blasphemy, a charge that carries a potential death penalty, after Muslim staff at a hospital accused them of removing a sticker carrying a verse from the Quran from a colleague’s locker.
Police in the eastern city of Faisalabad had to rescue the pair as a riot broke out at the hospital. Muslim medical staff staged a demonstration demanding legal action against the women.
Who exactly thought Muslim immigration was a good idea?
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has sparked outcry by blaming women’s dress for a rise in rape cases in his country.
The former cricketing playboy made the remark during a question and answer session with the public on Sunday, when a caller asked what the government is doing about rising in sexual violence particularly against children.
Khan then hit out at what he called ‘vulgarity’ in societies around the world – singling out India’s Bollywood and the ‘sex, drugs and rock and roll’ culture of England in the 70s as examples – saying that is to blame for moral decline that leads to sex attacks.
Like Justin, Imran believes women experience sexual assault differently.
The Ahmad family lives in uncertainty. They have no German residency permit. The father, a qualified engineer, is not allowed to work in Germany.
They live in a refugee shelter but they can expect a deportation order any day. They have recently learned that the next collective deportation to Pakistan will take place on March 17 — and they are afraid they will be on that flight.
Back in Pakistan, they say, their lives would be in danger.
The Ahmadi are the Stockholm Syndrome sect of Islam and were declared non-Muslims in 1974 by former Pak PM Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.
Like Christians and Jews they’re killed because Islam commands they be killed.
My pet peeve is the insistence by many in the MSM to use the Ahmadi as show pony examples of the true peaceful nature of Islam.
A Pakistani migrant charged with breaking into a French asylum centre with a knife to get at a 14-year-old girl demanded in court that the judge give her to him.
The 36-year-old Pakistani broke into an asylum reception home in the department of Ariège, where the girl was living with her family. He allegedly wanted to check and make sure the 14-year-old had not found another man.
A Pakistan Highcourt judge on Monday denied bail to two Ahmadi brothers accused of marrying Muslim women.
Justice Syed Arshad Ali rejected the bail applications of Zaid, Zahid, and their father Sajid, accused of marrying Muslim women while being non-Muslim. The brothers who adhere to the minority Ahmadiyya faith were detained with their father in September last year.
The family of a 12-year-old girl in Pakistan who was chained up in a cattle pen for more than six months, after allegedly being kidnapped and forced to marry her abductor, have attacked the authorities for refusing to act.
The case is among those now being examined by a government inquiry into the forced conversions of religious minority women and girls, after police released the man, saying they believed the girl had married him of her own free will.
The child was taken from her home in Faisalabad last June and had been held at the home of 29-year-old Khizer Hayat, where she was made to work clearing animal dung. Her family are angry that no further action has been taken against the man.
