A British Muslim mother has been sentenced to three years for forcing her school-age daughters to marry cousins in Pakistan.
A Muslim mother who forced her two daughters to marry their cousins in Pakistan has been jailed for three years and ordered to sign the Sex Offenders’ Register.
She told her elder daughter that if she didn’t [...]

The headline and opening sentence of the Church Times article make the Taliban sound like tolerant and open-minded multiculturalists.
Easter ‘with Taliban blessing’
EASTER DAY passed off without a hitch in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan, thanks to the Taliban’s support
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An epidemiological study published in the April 2009 issue of the European Journal of Public Health concludes that 1957 honour killings of women occurred in Pakistan between January 2004 and December 2007—about 20 percent of all homicides.
The study was led by Dr. Muazzam Nasrullah of the Aga Khan University in Pakistan. An excerpt is [...]

A woman in Mississauga is due to be deported to Pakistan on 28 April even though she claims her estranged husband will kill her when she arrives because, in his view, she has offended his honour. Her appeal is now being heard.
[Roohi] Tabassum, 44, says her ex, Faisal Javed, a businessman and Sunni community [...]

As part of a negotiated settlement with Taliban forces in Swat Valley, Pakistan has established Sharia courts in the region. However, the system is apparently not working to the satisfaction of Swat Taliban.
“I am not going to change the decision as it is valid according to Sharia,” says Maulana Ehsan-ur-Rahman softly but adamantly.
Maulana Rahman is [...]

“Forced To Marry” will be shown this evening on CBC Newsworld’s The Passionate Eye at 10 pm ET/PT.  (11 pm Atlantic Time.)
Presenter Saira Khan journeys to Pakistan and reports the stories of two British women of Pakistani descent who were coerced into marrying men they hardly knew.
Entrepreneur and TV presenter Saira Khan travels to her [...]

Now that Pakistan has agreed to implement sharia law in Swat Valley in hopes of ending hostilities in the region, some parents are sending their girls back to school.
Islamic militants pronounced a ban education for girls in December. Some 200 girls’ schools in Swat have been burned down and an unknown number of teachers [...]

A few days ago, it was reported that a prayer room used by Christian nursing students was ordered closed at The Children’s Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan. Now Christian nursing students are being targeted at another hospital in Lahore.
Two female Christian students of Fatima Memorial Hospital’s nursing school in the Pakistani city of Lahore, have been [...]

Pakistani reporter Musa Khan Khel has been shot dead in Swat Valley only two days after the government acceded to Taliban demands to enforce Sharia law in the area. He was abducted by unknown assailants while covering a “peace” rally by Taliban supporters.
Reporters Without Borders has received information that his body was beheaded.
Reporters Without [...]

The administration of The Children’s Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan, ordered closed a Christian prayer room used by nursing students. A Christian official then locked a room formerly used for the same purpose by Muslim nursing students.
In a rare development, a Christian hostel warden of a Nursing School located at the premises of the Children’s Hospital in [...]

The Taliban offered peace in Swat, northern Pakistan—for a price.
The head of the hardline Tahreek Nifaz-e-Shariat Mohammadi (TNSM) group and spiritual leader of Taliban militants in Swat, Sufi Mohammad, says he will ensure an end to fighting if the government enforces Sharia law in the region.
It’s a deal, say government officials, and Taliban terrorists celebrate [...]

Police in Lancashire, England, have used new legal powers to save a young woman from being coerced to marry against her will.  A Forced Marriage Protection Order was issued to prevent her father from taking her to Pakistan.
The orders, which were added to the Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007 in November last year, mean [...]

Islamist militants are taking control of the Swat Valley, North West Frontier Province (NWFP), Pakistan. Some 200,000 of the region’s 1.8 million residents have reportedly fled for safety.
From an IRIN (Integrated Regional Information Networks) report by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:
“We see terrible events here every day. The central square [...]

The headline on this AP news report looks like a mealy-mouthed attempt to avoid naming the religion of the “extremists”, even though they’re obviously Muslims.
Religious extremists in Pakistan seek to restrict girls’ education
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — In a dark echo of Taliban rule in Afghanistan, violent religious extremists in Pakistan are moving to restrict girls’ education [...]

An Anglican priest in the Diocese of Peshawar, North-West Frontier Province (NWFP), Pakistan, who was kidnapped last week, was found on Sunday evening dumped outside the gates of Saint John’s Cathedral Church.  The Rev Tanzeel Zafar had been severely beaten, thrown at the church gate, and apparently left for dead.  He was rushed to hospital [...]