LAHORE, February 12, 2009: Five Ahmadis detained on charges of blasphemy in Layyah district have been held without virtually any proof or witnesses, the Human Rights Commission (HRCP) said on Thursday.
The commission, which had sent a fact-finding team to Layyah district last week, said its finding

SRINAGAR, February 10, 2009; (PCP) Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) will mark the 25th martyrdom anniversary of Maqbool Butt Shaheed by organising a rally in his ancestral place Trehgam on
Wednesday 11th February 2009. The rally has been organised by Zonal body of JKLF. Supreme Head Ammanul

LAHORE, February 10, 2009: At least 138 people committed suicide in the country in one month ending January 25, 2009, according to statistics available with the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and published in its monthly journal.
Of those committing suicide between 26th December 2008 and 25th

Islamabad: February 9, 2009. (PCP) Non of Muslim political parties after hijacking more than 1.7 million Christian votes, including ruling PPP in elections of 2008, under joint election system have any Christian on their Senate candidate list for Senate elections of 2009.
Under Joint Election syste

Philadelphia: February 3, 2009. Dr. Nazir S Bhatti, Chief of Pakistan Christian Congress PCC, appealed to pope Benedict to take notice of Catholic Church in Pakistan where there’s no Punjabi bishop while 99.9% catholic’s are Punjabi speaking congregates and tiny community of 0.001 from Indian stat

London: January 30, 2009. The 26 security officers were killed in Baluchistan in two separate incidents, Iranian officials sites reported. The first incidents was organised by People's Resistance Movement of Iran, Jondollah, in Sarawan on 20th of January. Jondollah reported in a statement that thi

India: January 30, 2009. (CNS) A Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) office-bearer Ghanshyam rained baton rods on dalit workers on 14 January 2009. Ghanshaym is the husband of Urmila Devi, who is the Gram Pradhan of Gram Panchayat Aira Kake Mau, Block Bharawan, District Hardoi, UP. Ghanshyam is also the BSP T

Pakistan: January 30, 2009. The masses elect their representatives to serve them and the politicians make all kind of promises to do so. However, once the elections are over and the government are formed, the leaders forget the masses and masses lose their leaders. An odd God fearing and honest legi

Philadelphia: January 27, 2009. Dr. Nazir S Bhatti, Chief of Pakistan Christian Congress PCC, said here in a statement that 18th amendment draft presented by MQM in national assembly of Pakistan has surprised millions of Christian who consider MQM as inheritance of founding fathers of Pakistan Movem

India: January 27, 2009. Read this notice of Chringmeirong Rongmei Village council, pasted on the notice board on the village gate in Manipuri is translated as: "No Christian activities and propagation within Chingmeirong Kabui (Rongmei) village Ward No. 173, any living person violating this order w

Lahore, January 27: Swat Taliban summoning politicians and citizens to their so-called sharia courts is further testimony, if testimony was needed, of the absence of state’s writ and growing boldness of militants, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has said.
A press statement issued by

Pakistan: January 27, 2009. The Washington-DC based human rights group, International Christian Concern (ICC) www.persecution.org has just learned that six unidentified men went on a robbing spree in a rural village in Pakistan on the night of January 10, and when they realized that one of the house

New York: January 23, 2009. (PCP report) Most Reverend Raphael Cheenath, SVD, the Catholic archbishop of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar, will address the Indian community in New York tri-state area on Sunday, Feb 1, 2009, in an effort brief the community and coordinate efforts to bring lasting peace and harmo

India: January 23, 2009. (PCP report) Hundreds of Sadhus in Ayodhya lead by Mahant Bhavnaath Das, chief of the Hanumangarhi temple and Ministers and legislators from the government and opposition parties in the Sindh Legislative Assembly in Karachi Pakistan became one in signing the Joint Petition a

ISLAMABAD, Jan 21 (APP): In response to a question regarding the inaugural address of President Barack Obama, President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesay said that the people of Pakistan welcomed President Obama’s emphasis on seeking “a new way forward” with the Muslim world “based on mutual interest and