Extrajudicial killings by Punjab police
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India – Pakistan : Sixty-two years after birth!
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Pakistan : Sixty-two years after birth!
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Three women forced to parade naked in Punjab
PAKISTAN: The ritual abuse and naked humiliation of three women casts
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The violent humiliation of three women reported from Punjab this week has thrown stark light on the complicity of the police and the courts in gender-based crimes — and on the continued degeneration of law enforcement in the region. This week three woman accused of prostitution were forced to parade naked through their neighborhood and onto a local highway; they were stripped and physically tormented under the direction of a man who leads a banned militant organisation.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
PAKISTAN: A human rights activist faces terrorism charges for publicising the murder of Christians, while the mullahs who incited the violence remain free
To: The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Islamabad
Name of the Victim: Mr. Tariq Mehmood, son of Mohammad Tufail Ansari. Resident of village Basti Danishmandan, Chak no. 264, G-B, district Toba Tek Singh, Punjab
Names of the perpetrators: 1. DSP, Toba Tek Singh district. 2. SHO, Toba Tek police station, Punjab 3. DPO, Toba Tek district, Punjab, Pakistan
I am writing to register my deep concern regarding the arrest of Tariq Mehmood, an activist working for the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) and the Labour Party of Pakistan, on charges of terrorism and disturbing the peace. The charges disproportionately refer to demonstrations he helped arrange after the burning murders of a number of Christians, and the burning of their houses by Muslim extremists. Police have not arrested those who incited the violence using the loudspeakers of mosques, which is illegal in Pakistan.
India – Police abuses’
A report – titled Broken System: Dysfunction, Abuse and Impunity in the Indian Police.
NEW DELHI – Inida’s police force has been accused of extrajudicial killings, torture and carrying out illegal detentions, human rights campaigners have said. “India’s status as the world’s largest democracy is undermined by a police that thinks it is above the law,” Brad Adams, Asia Director of Human Rights Watch (HRW), said on Tuesday. Indian police continue to use their old methods: abuse and threats…
Gojra Incident was engineered by Sipah-e-Sahabah
Gojra admin knew about pre-planned attacks: HRCP
Lahore – Press release, August 4: Last week’s attacks targeting the Christian community in Gojra were not a spontaneous reaction to allegations of blasphemy but were planned in advance, a fact-finding mission of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has found.
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Sindh TV News journalists kidnapped by Land Mafia group in Karachi
Three kidnapped journalists released after police action
Karachi: August 5, 2009, Three journalists were kidnapped by land mafia group allegedly supported by MQM in Karachi Suhrab Goth locality on Tuesday evening. Mushtaque Sarki, reporter for Sindh TV News, along with cameraman and driver was returning from coverage of a protest by residents of two villages being demolished under City Government’s order in Suhrab Goth, district Malir.
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Sindhi Women! Fight for Rights!
Report by: Amar Sindhu, Hyderabad, Sindh
The rally of Women Action Forum has been taken against the harassment of women at public places in Hyderabad on the eve of 30th of July. The rally was attended by large number of citizens, men and women, active members of civil society, journalists, local leaders of political parties and other organizations.
Shameful attack on Christians in Pakistan
Shameful attack on poor Christians
by: Iqbal Tareen, Washington, DC
August 2, 2009 – I condemn this barbaric attack on unarmed and peaceful Christian people of Pakistan. It is a shameful act, which reveals an alarming mindset emerging out of an Islamic extremism that has been brewing in Pakistan for decades especially after the advent of Zia era. Right wing political parties and state agencies have been busy perpetuating various internal and external hot spots to justify their consolidation of power and to divert attention from the real issues faced by 160 million peoples of Pakistan.
I urge progressive forces in Pakistan and around the world to become a formidable force and rise against the forces of hate and evil. Let us embrace diversity in Pakistan and create an environment where peoples of Pakistan are not judged by their color, nationality, ethnic background or a religious faith passed onto them by their ancestors just like a color of skin or a chattel.
Let us make Pakistan an inclusive country – a nation of many nations. Let us promote brotherhood and sisterhood, progressive people to stand like a shield of steel between the forces of pillage and destruction and the noble causes of 160 million innocent peoples of Pakistan who are yearning for peace, prosperity, individual and collective dignity, justice and democracy. The time has come to take politics out of the business of religion and religion out of the business of politics.
The earth for all the people-that’s the demand!
Full opportunity for full development is the inalienable right of all. He who denies it is a tyrant, he who does not demand it is a coward, he who does no desire it is a slave. The earth for all the people-that’s the demand! Eugene V. Debs
Letter to Indus Asia Online
Employees of Sui Southern Gas Company Limited?
It is due respect that I am a law abiding Sindhi citizen of Pakistan . My ancestors were in thought that after creation of Pakistan their social, political, economical and cultural condition and fate would be changed. They will be honored and get a chance to be sophisticated and virtuous citizen of Pakistan, but their romance is shattered and has been lost in the realm of Punjab empire with sharing Pathans and Mohajars- that troika is omnipotent everywhere.
In 1993 Pakistan Peoples Party government under the Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto had appointed 5,000 educated youths of Sindh and Balochistan in Sui Southern Gas Company in accordance with rules and regulations during the period from 1st November 1993 to 30th November 1996, but they were removed from service from November 1, 1996 to December 31, 1998 on purely prejudiced basis in the government of Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz Sharif). It was clearly action of apartheid to Sindhies.
WSC Raises the issue of Killing of Sindhi Activists at the UN Human Rights Council
World Sindhi Congress Raises the IDPs and Killing of Sindhi Activists at the 11TH Session of the Human Rights Council
London: Press release- World Sindhi Congress, a leading Sindhi organisation working for the cause of human rights Of Sindh and Sindhis, has raised the issue of IDPs and killings of Sindh political workers at 11th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva , scheduled from 2-18 June 2009.
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An article from the University Teachers For Human Rights – UTHR- J (Jaffna)
AHRC-FAT-006-2009 June 11, 2009
An article from the University Teachers For Human Rights – UTHR J (Jaffna ) forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission
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What’s wrong with a 30-hour work week?
By Don Fitz
Courtesy: Links International
May 30, 2009 — With millions of jobs lost during the first part of 2009, who is calling for a shorter work week to spread the work around? Not the Republicans. Not even the Democrats. But why is there nary a peep from unions?
Spike in the Soul – The Honor Dogs of Sindh and Balochistan!
by Aijaz Sindhi, USA, aijazsindhi@gmail.com
There was news about burying 5 women from Baluchistan quite a few months ago who were still alive in the they were first beaten by 17 tribesmen, and then hit by the speeding tractor with the blade in front. As if it were not enough, the shattered skulls women were then dragged by the tractor blade into a ditch, and buried alive.
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Islamic or un-Islamic? You decide.
Shameful.. shocking. .horrifying… Un-Islamic of course.
by Mirza
I saw the video on Geo TV… have been under shock the whole day… like so many others. I feel her as a member of our family… the man who went with her probably was not punished. I saw another cultural stigma…. She was shouting… Leave me.. Meree tauba meree maan ki tauba….. Since FATHERS in that culture do not apologies.
I received an unofficial information (though this was off the record, but the person reporting was reliable)… Some Talib has proposed her and the girl had refused.. and she was pinned down as soon as they got some opportunity.
video of girl’s flogging, click here
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/02/taliban-pakistan-justice-women-flogging
Girl flogged in Swat, Pakistan
Girl Beaten in Swat by our so called Sharia Leaders
(Please see English Dubbed video translation also I tried ) IF THIS VIDEO IS REAL AND NOT PROPAGANDA AGAINST PAKISTAN THEN THIS IS EVIL.ITS CANCER WHICH WILL EVENTUALITY RESULT IN TERMINAL STAGE FOR PAKISTAN This grainy footage appears to show a 17-year-old girl being beaten by Islamic radicals in Pakistan’s northwestern region of Swat, where Sharia law was introduced after the government reached a truce with the Taliban in February. A local Taliban commander in the militant stronghold of Matta.
Pashtoon girl flogged
by Dr. Syed Ehtisham
The writer can be reached at syedmae@yahoo.com
I just called friends/family in Karachi, Lahore, Quetta and Islamabad. Reaction against the barbarism is fierce in Karachi and Lahore, muted in Islamabad, and subdued in Quetta. The last is in virtual control of Taliban.
They are begging for support, naturally asking us to write to congress men, senators, the state department.
When I offered that we will write to Pakistan embassy too, they laughed with derision, and used terminology, not suited for mixed company. The bigot groups have said not a word. Before this outrage, the new Jamat-e-Islami (JI) Chief Munawwar Hasan had actually demanded that Swat Shariah be imposed all over Pakistan. If we do not act now, Pakistan will become Afghanistan..
Taliban Justice- A pashtoon girl flogging by Taliban
by Khalid Hashmani, McLean, Virginia, USA
Taliban beating the girl mercilessly, click here to see the video
This is shocking and makes me ashamed that this is happening in the same country of which Sindh is also a part. I am angry as hell! These beasts and their supporters have no shame and their hearts are devoid of peaceful teachings of Islam. Beating mercilessly the poor woman on the pretext that “She came out of her house with another guy who was not her husband” is barbaric and it is obvious they do not live in past and are bent upon destruction and treating people with such cruelty.
May Allah punish these beasts if the government lacks the courage to save the wretched country of Pakistan from these barbarians.
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Dr. Lakhu Luhana of World Sindhi Congress expressed his solidarity with Baloch people
Report by: Information Secretary Ali Memon
March 29th , 2009
Press release- Interfaith international with the collaboration of UNPO, Baloch Human Rights Council, World Sindhi Congress, Sindhi Baloch Forum and Balochistan Rights Movement held a peaceful protest rally on Friday 20 March 2009 from 9.00 am to 12.00 pm in front of the United Nations office in Geneva Switzerland. The slogans on the placards high lighted various aspects of human right violation.
A conference on Human Rights situation in Balochistan was also held in the UN conference room at 3.00 pm to 5.00 pm ,chaired by interfaith international president Mr. Charles Graves.
Senator Sana Baloch presented a detailed graphic accounts of injustices, atrocities, human rights violations, political, social deprivations, abduction & extra judicial killing of Baloch civilians including women & children, Target killing of Baloch leaders and Baloch intellectuals by the State.
United Nations Panel on Racial Discrimination
United Nations Panel on Racial Discrimination has demanded Pakistan provide answers to its racist treatment of Baloch:
GENEVA: Pakistan’s ambassador to the U.N. in Geneva says his country is trying to address the discrimination against its Baluch minority.
Zamir Akram says the Pakistan government “has given high priority to engaging the local Baluch leaders and the people of Baluchistan in a meaningful dialogue and removing their legitimate grievances.”
A U.N. panel on racial discrimination questioned Akram on Thursday about Pakistan’s treatment of the Baluch people.
(International Herald Tribune)
Don’t Block wichaar.com
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Israeli bombing, Hamas and Gaza
by Tarek Fatah
… As Palestinans die, we all suffer, but at some stage one has to ask, what have been doing wrong that even after 60 years we do not see anyhting other than sloganeering and suffering of common people. And now we hear the dead Hamas leader died alongisde two of his four wives. Is this how national liberation movement have been led anywhere else? Four wives?
HOW MULTICULTURALISM BENEFIT US?
Cultural diversity means that the population is drawn from many cultural backgrounds, representing a wide range of beliefs and traditions. Multiculturalism ensures that all citizens can keep their cultural identies, take pride in their ancestry. Canada’s experience with diversity has taught us to accept and respect different views. This has made Canada an effective international mediator. With so much violence in the world fuelled by racial, religious, and ethnic intolerance, Canada is regularly asked for advice and help with conflit resolution and human rights.
Canada stands as a proof that it is possible for the world’s many races, religions, and cultures to live together and Canada showes the world that different people can accept and respect one another.
Should we or could we resist the elements that are hijacking Pakistani society and imposing their beliefs forcibly?
DAWN Editorial says Religious Sectarianism is Eating away Pakistan’s Foundations
By Khalid Hashmani, McLean, Virginia
The hard-hitting editorial in today’s DAWN newspaper points out how religious sectarianism is degenerating Pakistani society. So much so, that few dare to question large religious groups who have or in in the process of imposing their values on smaller groups. Even the famous and otherwise known as courageous icons of the society stand meekly and shy away from criticizing larger militant groups.
Should we or could we resist the elements that are hijacking Pakistani society and imposing their beliefs forcibly?
True face of police in India
Report by: Indur Chhugani, India
The reporter can be reached at: trustplead@gmail.com
“The girl revealed that he had taken her out earlier and tried to molest her. He had threatened her with a false case against the family if she informed anyone,” the police officer added. The victim’s medical test has confirmed rape. The police has registered a case against the accused, but no arrests have been made so far. AGENCIES
Wow!! What a Justice in Pakistan!!!
High Court Judge Mustafa Ismail was in jail for 22 years, because he had issued a legal notice to Begum Ziaul Haq in 1986.
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