Category: Pakistan

Pakistan – ANS report: “Pakistani Christian Blasphemy – Accused is Suffering from Heart Disease”

(Pakistan) ANS report: “Pakistani Christian Blasphemy – Accused is Suffering from Heart Disease”
— “Mushtaq and his friend Wallayat Masih were accused of blasphemy when they lay sheets inscribed with Quranic verses on the grave of a Christian man”

Pakistan: Another “Honor Killing” of Eloped Couple — Barki

— Pakistan Daily Times: “Couple killed in name of ‘honour'”
— “A newlywed couple was killed in the name of honour on Thursday within Barki Police precincts. Khalid and Shamim, the deceased, had eloped two months ago and were married without the consent of their families.”
— “On their return, Ramazan shot the couple, who died on their way to hospital. Police sources said Ramazan was Shamim’s cousin and she had been engaged to him when she eloped with Khalid. The deceased and the accused were all residents of village Chacho Wali.”
— “Love marriage couple shot dead”

— follows a similar “honor killing” of a couple and their family in Charsadda district on Monday June 29 – husband named Kamran Nawaz

Pakistan: Christian families in Kasur hide from angry mobs – charges of Extremist “blasphemy”

Pakistan: Christian families in Kasur hide from angry mobs
— Pakistan Daily Times reports: “At least 110 Christian families, almost 700 people, were forced on Tuesday night to flee Bahmniwala, a village in Kasur, after angry mobs attacked and threatened to burn their houses for allegedly committing blasphemy”
— “The families sought safety in the fields surrounding their village, even as local mosques urged the Muslims to unite and ‘teach a lesson’ to the Christians, residents told Daily Times”
— “The Christians who returned to their homes found they had no electricity or drinking water the entire day”

—- Pakistan Daily Times follow-up report to:
—- Pakistan – ICC Report: “Muslim Mob Burns Down 100 Christian Homes in Pakistan”

Pakistan: Christian pastor kidnapped at gunpoint, escapes

ANS report: “Pakistani Presbyterian Pastor attacked at gunpoint”
— ANS reports: “The Rev. Eric Sarwar, a minister of the Presbyterian Church of Pakistan and director of the Tehillim School of Church Music and Worship, was attacked in Karachi on Tuesday, June 30, 2009, at 8:00 pm Pakistan time, ANS has learned.”
— ANS states that Christian pastor was kidnapped at gunpoint, but managed to escape

Pakistan – ICC Report: “Muslim Mob Burns Down 100 Christian Homes in Pakistan”

(Pakistan) ICC Report: “Muslim Mob Burns Down 100 Christian Homes in Pakistan”
— ICC reports: “This morning 100 Christian houses and churches were set on fire by local Muslims in the city of Kasur South, east of Lahore, Pakistan”
— “The riots were incited by broadcasts from local mosques”
— “This incident is similar to a February 1997 attack when thousands of Christian houses and churches were burned and hundreds of Christians were injured”
— “So far 9 burned women and 4 children have been transferred to Lahore for further medical treatment”
— “All of them have been injured by throwing acid on them”

Pakistan Daily Times: Christian families in Kasur hide from angry mobs
— “At least 110 Christian families, almost 700 people, were forced on Tuesday night to flee Bahmniwala, a village in Kasur, after angry mobs attacked and threatened to burn their houses for allegedly committing blasphemy”
— “The families sought safety in the fields surrounding their village, even as local mosques urged the Muslims to unite and ‘teach a lesson’ to the Christians, residents told Daily Times”
— “The Christians who returned to their homes found they had no electricity or drinking water the entire day”

Pakistan “Honor killings”: Couple, including teenage bride, mother, sister murdered

(Pakistan) Honour killings: Couple, 3 relatives gunned down
— “More than three-dozen attackers were dressed in Punjab police uniforms and fully equipped to avenge the so-called dishonour brought to the family due to the elopement of the girl.”

— Couple shot dead for eloping – police
— AFP: “Relatives of a Pakistani teenager who eloped and married without parental consent shot her dead in a raid on her new home which also killed her husband and in-laws, police said.”
— “‘They killed the bride, the mother and sister of the bridegroom,’ said Charsadda district police official Saleem Jan.”
— “‘They beat them first and then shot them dead,’ he told AFP.”

— Newly-wed couple among five shot dead in Charsadda
— police describe the bride aged 18-19 was “from the deeply conservative Mardan district next to Charsadda”

— Daily Telegraph: “Human rights groups have strongly condemned the practice of honour killings in Pakistan, which claim the lives of hundreds of women each year.”

Pakistan: Battagram Hindus told to embrace Islam or pay tax

(Pakistan) Battagram Hindus told to embrace Islam or pay tax
— “Chief of the Hindu community in Battagram said on Sunday that the Taliban had threatened them to pay Jazia (tax) or accept Islam”
— “‘It depends on you to choose between Jazia and Islam otherwise you would face abduction and suicide attacks,’ Dr Oam Parkash quoted the Taliban as saying.”