LARKANA: March 15, 2009. (Nazir Siyal) Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Mazar Committee(SZABMC) in its meeting held today, at District Secretariat of PPP Larkana, chaired by its Convener Ghulamullah Mahotto, to discuss the programmes of observing the 30th death anniversary of the founder chairman of Pak

Lahore: March 11, 2009. (PCP) The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed dismay at curbs on freedom of assembly, arbitrary arrests and harassment of lawyers, political figures and civil society activists ahead of the lawyers’ long march.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, HRCP s

London: March 11, 2009. Six Baluch were hanged and 7 were shot dead in the last seven days. Radio Farda quoted official news agencies of the Iranian government as saying that the six men were accused of Fighting God and Corrupting the Earth, a term used by the courts to describe the activities

Islamabad: March 10, 2009. Long March by Nawaz Sharif is part of power game which will not reinstate deposed judges nor will hammer up PPP government in Pakistan said Nazir S Bhatti, Chief of Pakistan Christian Congress in a message to Islamabad Council of PCC because Nawaz Sharif and Asif Ali Zarda

MUMBAI, INDIA: March 10, 2009. (PCP) At the 14th World Conference on Tobacco or Health in India this week, governments and civil society are demanding tobacco corporations comply swiftly with new treaty guidelines preventing industry interference in health policy.
Big Tobacco has long interfered i

Lahore : March 09, 2009. (Margaret Piara reports for PCP) : “I got married and I had 3 daughters only and no son. For that reason my mother-in-law said that I am not good for them”. These were the words of Mrs. Jamila Nasir during the program organized by Milap Organization on the 8th March at St. J

LAHORE March 9, 2009: (PCP) At least 141 people committed suicide in the country in one month ending February 25 according to statistics available with the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) and published in its monthly journal.
Of those committing suicide between 26th January and 25th Febr

Lucknow: March 6, 2009. (PCP) The democratic process may finally find expression politically if the newly constituted forum of social activists taking up people’s causes has its way.
Called the People’s Politics Front (Lok Rajniti Manch), it held its first national convention at Lucknow at the Gang

WASHINGTON, D.C: March 5, 2009. International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that Islamic extremists in northern Nigeria gunned down Christians and set fire to their homes and churches during a three-day rampage in which 11 people were killed and 3500 were displaced.
According to Nigerian new

LAHORE: March 5, 2009. (PCP) The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has condemned a bombing at the mausoleum of renowned poet Rehman Baba on the outskirts of Peshawar.
In a statement issued on Thursday, HRCP said: “The bombing at the mausoleum cannot be condemned strongly enough. Rehman Bab

LARKANA: March 5, 2009. (Nazir Siyal reports for PCP) All Pakistan Organization of Small Traders and Cottage Industries Sindh (APOSTCI) Provincial president Sindh Mashooq Ali Jatoi has said that the PML-N call for the strike will not be successful all over Sindh and they must retract their call of s

Gujranwala, Pakistan: March 3, 2009. (SLMP reports for PCP) The Christian Mass services were in progressing with dedication of worshipers in a Presbyterian Church in remote town of Aroop in Gujranwala district of Punjab province of Pakistan when a Muslim mob attacked on Church with firearms. It wa

USA: March 3, 2009. Shelia Augustine, mother of Rev. Canon Dr. Patrick P Augustine, passed away on February 18, 2009, to rest with almighty Lord Jesus for ever, leaving behind grieved family members in USA and Pakistan. The celebration is her memory were venue at La Cross led by Rev. Dr. Augustine.

London: March 3, 2009. Mr. Nasir Saeed, Coordinator of CLAAS UK issued her statement on elections of Senate of Pakistan. He said that few weeks ago the Chief Election Commissioner of Pakistan the Right Honorable Justice Qazi Muhammad Farooq announced the schedule of the elections for the Upper House

Lahore: March 2, 2009. (SLMP report) Two Christians named Wallayat Masih son of Saraina Masih alias Sala resident of village Maloki District Kasur and Mushtaq Masih son of Sooba Masih resident of Kareem Park Bank Stop Lahore have been charged under blasphemy law vide case registered vide First Infor