Tag Archives: Pakistan
Pakistan: Reality TV…
…the reality is, the host is an idiot. A major television station fired a prominent journalist on Monday after she led a self-styled moral crusade against dating couples that set off a furious public outcry. Maya Khan, 31, the host … Continue reading
Pakistan: Who needs schoolbooks? We have CHAINS!
Taiwan News Online Pakistani police have rescued 68 students from a religious school, an Islamic seminary, in Karachi, including drug addicts, who had been tortured, chained, and hooked in the basement of a madrassa for unreasonable reasons. Police involved in … Continue reading
Belgium: Family jailed for religiously-motivated murder
SMH A Belgian court has sentenced four members of a Pakistani family to prison for the “honour killing” of their law student daughter and sister. After pronouncing the family members guilty for the shooting death of Sadia Sheikh in October … Continue reading
Pakistan: $US2 billion annually in aid — so they can train terrorists
SMH ”The Haqqani network,” Mullen told a US Senate committee, ”acts as a veritable arm of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Agency.” He said the US had ”credible evidence” that Pakistan was behind a range of terrorist and insurgent attacks. His comments … Continue reading
Pakistan: Blasphemy charge for a spelling error
The Express Tribune. Faryal Bhatti, a student at the Sir Syed Girls High School in Pakistan Ordnance Factories (POF) colony Havelian, erroneously misspelt a word in an Urdu exam while answering a question on a poem written in praise of … Continue reading
Pakistan: Vile and filthy practice of female ‘circumcision’ continues
Newsline Female circumcision (also known as female genital mutilation and female genital cutting) refers to a variety of operations involving the partial or total removal of the female external genitalia. The reasons behind this painful procedure have cultural and religious … Continue reading
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Pakistan: US forces kill Al-Qaeda number two and three others
SMH Al-Qaeda’s number two Atiyah abd al-Rahman has been killed in Pakistan, the United States said on Saturday, claiming another “tremendous” blow to the group following the death of Osama bin Laden…. …local officials in the region told AFP last … Continue reading
Pakistan: 39 jailed…
…for serving food! In public! 39 held for violating Ramadan ordinance in Pakistan | Deccan Chronicle. The owners of 39 hotels, canteens and eateries in Pakistan’s Punjab province were arrested and sent to jail for violating an ordinance that bars … Continue reading
Canada: Female Pakistani activist strangled in front of 2-year-old son
Calgary Sun Between 1 and 2 a.m. on July 22, neighbours in the building at 3131 Eglinton Ave. E. heard the shrill screaming of a child that went on for 15 minutes. And then silence. More than 15 hours later, … Continue reading
Filed under Children, Family members, Human rights abuse, Islamicism, Sexuality, Stupidity, Women
Pakistan: Islamist thugs terrorise university students
Los Angeles Times. After philosophy students and faculty members rallied to denounce heavy-handed efforts to separate male and female students, Islamists on campus struck back: In the dead of night, witnesses say, the radicals showed up at a men’s dormitory … Continue reading
