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Muslim woman jailed for forcing daughters to marry

May 21st, 2009 | 1 Comment

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 [...]

Easter for dhimmis in Pakistan

April 18th, 2009 | 1 Comment

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 To read the rest, you need a subscription. Fortunately, Andii Bowsher has [...]

One-fifth of homicides in Pakistan are honour killings

April 15th, 2009 | 1 Comment

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 [...]

Woman facing deportation fears she will be killed

April 15th, 2009 | 1 Comment

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 [...]

Taliban dispute Sharia court’s verdict

March 25th, 2009 | 1 Comment

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 [...]

Tonight on CBC Newsworld: “Forced To Marry”

March 23rd, 2009 | 1 Comment

“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 [...]

Girls returning to school in Swat Valley

March 4th, 2009 | Comments Off

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 [...]

Christian nursing students accused of blasphemy [updated]

February 20th, 2009 | 2 Comments

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 [...]

Journalist murdered in Swat Valley, Pakistan

February 18th, 2009 | 1 Comment

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 [...]

Prayer rooms closed at Pakistan nursing school

February 16th, 2009 | 1 Comment

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 [...]

Sharia law to be enforced in Swat Valley, Pakistan

February 15th, 2009 | 1 Comment

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 [...]

New police powers save British woman from forced marriage

February 11th, 2009 | Comments Off

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, [...]

Islamists overrunning Pakistan’s Swat Valley

January 28th, 2009 | 1 Comment

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 [...]

Pakistan: Christian extremists threaten girls’ education … no, wait

January 18th, 2009 | 1 Comment

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 [...]

Kidnapped Anglican priest left for dead in Pakistan

January 13th, 2009 | 1 Comment

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 [...]