Source: The Huffington Post By Aamir Hussain and Murali Balaji The United States is truly exceptional in the fact that it “peacefully combines a high degree of religious devotion with […]
Legalbrief Today — Three independent UN human rights experts have urged Pakistan to adopt urgent legislation to put an end to faith-based killings and protect the country’s Ahmadiyya Muslim community, whose faith is currently outlawed, the Jurist states. The call follows a resurgence of violent attacks in Pakistan targeting Ahmadiyya Muslims, which have […]
Source: 680 News Thousands gathered Wednesday at the Vaughan funeral of a Canadian doctor gunned down in Pakistan late last month. The service for cardiologist Mehdi Ali Qamar, 51, was […]
Source: CBC News A Canadian cardiologist shot dead in Pakistan was remembered Wednesday as a selfless humanitarian who was “murdered because of his faith,” with mourners making impassioned calls for Ottawa to better pressure the South Asian country on religious freedoms. READ MORE
Source: CBC News A Canadian cardiologist shot dead in Pakistan was remembered Wednesday as a selfless humanitarian who was “murdered because of his faith,” with mourners making impassioned calls for Ottawa to better pressure the South Asian country on religious freedoms. READ MORE
Source: National Post Mehdi Ali Qamar was a member of an outlawed religious minority VAUGHAN, Ont. — Mehdi Ali Qamar’s father was a farmer in an area of Pakistan so rural, there was no doctor. So he decided to do it himself. “He took diplomas and learned some herbal remedies […]
Tomorrow, Dr. Mehdi Ali Qamar — the Canadian/American doctor who was assassinated last month in front of his wife and child, while he was performing a humanitarian mission in Pakistan — will be buried at Maple Cemetary in Vaughan, Ont. His funeral has become a major rallying point for members […]
National Post: by Jonathan Kay — Tomorrow, Dr. Mehdi Ali Qamar — the Canadian/American doctor who was assassinated last month in front of his wife and child, while he was performing a humanitarian mission in Pakistan — will be buried at Maple Cemetary in Vaughan, Ont. His funeral has become […]
War on the Rocks: by Myra McDonalds — The past few months have seen a particularly high-profile series of murders in Pakistan. An American cardiologist volunteering at a hospital in Pakistan was shot dead because he belonged to the minority Ahmadi community. A lawyer and human rights activist was killed after he took up […]
The past few months have seen a particularly high-profile series of murders in Pakistan. An American cardiologist volunteering at a hospital in Pakistan was shot dead because he belonged to the minority Ahmadi community. A lawyer and human rights activist was killed after he took up the case of a lecturer accused of blasphemy. […]
Murder in Rabwah By Muhammad Hassan Miraj Published May 27, 2014 07:18pm Rabwah is an Arabic word meaning “an elevated place”. This is what Wikipedia says about Rabwah (also known […]
Dawn.com — The London Metropolitan police confirmed that a 60-year-old man had been arrested from a North-West London property on charges of money-laundering, but they declined to disclose the exact identity for “legal reasons”. The police said a Specialist Operations unit was currently carrying out a search operation at the […]
The Express Tribune: by Asad Rahim Khan — It’s not stoning to death. Not exactly, if we’re to follow the police’s line. A woman wasn’t stoned to death in broad daylight, by a mob of blood relations. She was beaten to death with bricks. In a sick society, the means […]
Source: Dawn Author: Vaqar Ahmed Unfortunately, I will not be celebrating your birth since I have already attended your funeral. I would never know how much pain you felt when bricks and stones, thrown by your grandfather and uncles hit your mother and killed you along with her. I am […]
By Brig® Mehboob Qadir | Email: clay.potter@hotmail.com Armies are peculiar reflections of their national history, culture and mother society. Within each army there are sub structures which correspond to the functional and operational needs of the force as it might be deployed for war, security or humanitarian tasks. However the key […]
Three United Nations experts on freedom of religion, minority issues, and summary executions have called on Pakistan to adopt urgent measures to stop faith-based killings and ensure the security of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community, whose faith is outlawed in the country. READ MORE…
rrtnews: Three United Nations experts on freedom of religion, minority issues, and summary executions have called on Pakistan to adopt urgent measures to stop faith-based killings and ensure the security […]
Epigraph: There should be no compulsion in religion. Surely, right has become distinct from wrong; so whosoever refuses to be led by those who transgress, and believes in Allah, has […]
By Saeed Qureshi The good neighborly relationship between India and Pakistan could not be brought about for seven decades. Can Narendra Modi and Nawaz Sharif resume the peace process initiated jointly by Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif way back in 1999? That historic […]
Noor Hussain, 75 allegedly murdered his wife 66, because she cooked him lentils rather than goat. Tribune.com.pk By AFP ,Published: May 30, 2014 http://tribune.com.pk/story/715295/pakistani-immigrant-convicted-of-wifes-murder-in-new-york/ The Pakistani woman was allegedly murdered by her husband because she cooked him lentils rather than goat. PHOTO: FILE NEW YORK: A US judge convicted an elderly […]