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High-Handed Leadership

The Islamists are prevailing in the battle of ideas. Secular voices have been either physically eliminated or removed from the mainstream by judicial means.

(ISLAMABAD) - Religious minorities are widely viewed as beleaguered or under attack since Z. A. Bhutto’s regime. Even then, Pakistani Christians followed his ideology.

At the time of partition in 1947, around 23 percent of the population was comprised of non-Muslims citizens. Today, the proportion of non-Muslims has declined to approximately 3-4 percent. Religious minorities such as Christians, Hindus, and Ahmadis, have been the targets of suicide bomb attacks; several incidents of violence and intimidation were reported including abduction and subsequent forced conversion of girls.

``Women International Day`` and VIOLATION OF WOMEN`S RIGHTS IN PAKISTAN

Abuses are compounded: poor girls and women are trafficked and subject to forced marriage, forced conversion, rape, forced prostitution or exploitative work situations such as bonded labor.

(LAHORE) - Mrs. Imran is a Women Human Rights Defender and Co-ordinator of LEAD (Legal Evangelical Association Development), focusing on "The Project of Women Empowerment" in Pakistan. She is very energetic and active in the field of women rights, she had to face many hardships during her campaign for women rights.

"We have many challenges about the violation of women rights in our country and our day to day challenges as being a minority in Pakistan", said Mrs. Imran. International women’s Day 2014 is being celebrated globally including Pakistan today on 7th March 2014 with the theme and object “Equality for women is progress for all”.

Muslims Vandalize Church Under Construction

Christians of the Okara district dared to construct a new Church building along with a Christian school.

(ISLAMABAD) - Religious freedom is guaranteed under Pakistan’s constitution, but discriminatory legislation punishes those who choose to actively follow the Christian faith and places restriction on the Church.

Restrictions on spreading the gospel publicly are reportedly banned and the same holds true with construction of new Churches, and honestly speaking I am being beaten up by the radical Muslims in Mansrah district for selling religious books when I voluntarily worked with Operation Mobilization - OM team in Pakistan.

Afghan Presidential Candidates Debate Foreign Policy

With only a month left before Presidential elections, U.S. diplomats have signaled a willingness to finalize the BSA with a new administration in Kabul once Karzai steps down. Nearly all of the 11 candidates have expressed support for the deal.

(KABUL TOLO News) - Three of the 11 presidential candidates participated in the third televised TOLOnews debate on Tuesday night, exchanging views on foreign policy ahead of the April vote.

The candidates - Zalmai Rassoul, Ashraf Ghani-Ahmadzai, and Abdullah Abdullah - went head-to-head in heated exchanges during the debate, answering questions for nearly two hours. Moderator Mujahid Kakar first asked the candidates if they accepted the Durand Line, the border separating Afghanistan from Pakistan.

Love Bird Seeking Sanctuary in US

The real issue is shame and scam these two brought on Pakistani Christians...

(ISLAMABAD) - Federal Minority Minister Shahbaz Bhatti was gunned down on March 02, 2011 by the extremist group in Islamabad.

His followers planned to celebrate his death anniversary on Sunday, March 02 and his love bird (Salma Peter John) shattered her silence...

Tying the Knot

Basharat Khokher is known as human rights activist since his great efforts in protecting Rimsha, juvenile accused of blasphemy case in Islamabad.

(ISLAMABAD) - There are few finer days in a person’s life than their wedding day. It’s a magical day full of romance and love. And a wedding on the Valentine Day can be extra special.

You are being married on the beach or under the shadow of a lighthouse, or the edge of seasonal drainage.

A Boy in a Rickshaw

Pakistani version of "Westside Story" - Muslim mob sets out to burn village of Christian boy who eloped with a Muslim girl. Boy's father arrested, dies in custody...

(ISLAMABAD) - The formation of Pakistan (as religious extremists think) and the search for an Islamic identity are inextricably linked of the wider issues of global politics.

The rise of Islamic fundamentalism has been a side- effect, and religious intolerance places the minorities of the country in a shaky position.

Looking for Role `Model`

Many Christian political leaders are from common backgrounds, but once they get some power in our hands, they forget the real cause.

(ISLAMABAD) - If you ever get a chance, spend a night in a common Christian family living in the slum areas. And if you can, try to picture the issues they face in their daily life.

And the most important; is to remember the sufferings, if you ever get a chance to become in power at any level.

A Christian Man Tortured and Murdered by the Police

Sabir Masih dies of torture in the Islamabad police custody.

(ISLAMABAD) - Sabir Masih 30, a father of 2, was arrested by the police on the suspicion of theft Tuesday.

Police used the conventional method of torture to make Masih confess the crime. Lamentably he was tortured to the extend that he passed away.

The Plight of Christians in Pakistan

Even the Supreme Court of Pakistan is wondering as to how the Government of Pakistan will provide protection to the religious minorities.

(ISLAMABAD) - With the growth of extremism in Pakistan, the minorities of Pakistan and particularly the Christians have become constant target at the hands of misconceived and uneducated extremist masses.

They take it their religious duty to inflict the weaker religious communities of Pakistan.