Oppression of minorities in Pakistan

arun · Post by **arun** » 09 Jul 2012 22:32

Excerpt from a letter to the editor of the Express Tribune which is published in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan on the oppressive treatment meted out by the majority Mohammaddens to the minority Kaafir Dhimmi’s:

Pakistan is clearly not a secular state. Consider the following facts which show state-level discrimination based on religion:
1) Pakistan calls itself an ‘Islamic’ republic. By this identity itself people of other faiths are excluded
2) Blasphemy against Islam is punishable by death as per law. Blasphemy against other religions is treated differently.
3) By law, the president and the prime minister must be Muslim.
4) Recently, a lower court ordered that the dome of an Ahmadi ‘place of worship’ be destroyed. This is not consistent with guarantees regarding freedom of worship.
6) There is no process for registering Hindu marriages under Pakistani law.
7) Pakistan’s population of minorities has been reduced from a healthy proportion at the time of independence to two to three per cent of the population now.

Express Tribune

arun · Post by **arun** » 12 Jul 2012 07:03

Dipanker wrote:Police demolish Ahmadi worship place minarets in Kharian

LAHORE: Six minarets of an Ahmadi place of worship, Bait-ul-Hamd, were demolished by the Kharian city police Tuesday night.
The demolition took place on the application of Saqib Shakeel Ghazi, Syed Iftikhar Kazmi and others from the Barelvi religious organisation called Tehreek-e-Tahaffuz-e-Islam. It had been filed to the Kharian police station.

The application asked the police to take action under the Section 298 B and C of the 1984 ordinance, which declares it illegal for Ahmadis to act or look like Muslims, to practice or propagate their faith and to call their worship place a “mosque”. There were no court orders for the demolition.

Police personnel, under the supervision of DSP Sultan Meeran, assisted by SHO Kharian Sadar Police Station Raja Zahid went to the worship place located near Kabari Bazar, Pul Nullah in Kharian.
Ahmadi community spokesperson Nasir Dar told The Express Tribune that six minarets had already been demolished whereas the police would demolish the two bigger ones later on as one was attached to the worship place’s electric supply and the other would fall on the building if not taken apart with the help of skilled labour.

The Kalma written on the front of the worship place’s entrance was also removed by the police as well, and the complimentary quotes about Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) were whitewashed.

RamaY wrote: This is very interesting. Let us assume a kafir put Kalima on their wall, which is a No No. But then doesn't destroying the wall, that has the kalima, amount desecration of Allah's words and thus blasphemy?

How is it different from, say a muslim tearing and burning of a Quran printed by a non-muslim in a non-islamic printing machine?

Allah works in mysterious ways onlee...

arun · Post by **arun** » 12 Jul 2012 07:26

In the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, a country claimed to have been set up as a safe haven for the Mohammaddens of the Indian Sub-Continent, being Mohammadden is not “Pure” enough to prevent being relegated to the fate of Dhimmi Kaafirs and being predated upon by one’s own co-religionists for religious reasons if one has the misfortune of belonging to a minority sect.

Green on Green Intra-Mohammadden violence sees a Cleric of the minority Shia sect of Mohammaddenism getting beheaded by his co-religionists of the Sunni sect:

Two including Imam Bargah cleric beheaded in Quetta

ManuT · Post by **ManuT** » 15 Jul 2012 19:17

This IS the right place for it.

ManuT wrote:Arrested Pak soldier talks of frustration, poor facilities across border
Reported by Nitin Gokhale, Written by Surabhi Malik | Updated: July 12, 2012

http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/arres ... der-242542

Poonch: A Pakistani soldier was arrested by the Indian army in Kerni sector of Poonch district in Jammu and Kashmir today.

Arif Ali, who belongs to the Frontier Force of the Pakistani army, was arrested around 6 this morning. No weapons were found in his possession.

During questioning by army officials, Ali has reportedly said that he was hoping for asylum in India. According to sources, he has also told his interrogators that lack of basic amenities - like electricity and proper supply of ration - has led to frustration among his colleagues deployed at the Line of Control or LoC. He has also complained about his seniors not granting them leaves.

Sources in the army said he would soon be sent back to Pakistan.

The Frontier Force Regiment of the Pakistan Army guards the LoC opposite the Poonch sector.

In October 2011, Pakistan had allowed an Indian helicopter that had strayed across from Kargil to return to India within four hours.

tejas wrote:http://www.business-standard.com/genera ... ted/31818/

Ali, who is part of Pakistani Army's 25 Frontier Force (FF), and is posted at Saifullah along the LoC in PoK, was arrested in Kerni forward area in Poonch district by Indian troops yesterday. He is a resident of Quetta.

arun · Post by **arun** » 20 Jul 2012 20:40

In the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, a country claimed to have been set up as a safe haven for the Mohammaddens of the Indian Sub-Continent, being Mohammadden is not “Pure” enough to prevent being relegated to the fate of Dhimmi Kaafirs and being predated upon by one’s own co-religionists for religious reasons if one has the misfortune of belonging to a minority sect.

Green on Green Intra-Mohammadden violence sees 14 adherents of the minority Shia sect of Mohammaddenism being targeted and killed using a land mine by their co-religionists of the Sunni sect who have claimed responsibility:

Taliban claim Orakzai sectarian bombing that killed 14

………………. “We targeted them because they were Shia, and they are enemies of Islam,” Mohammed Afridi, spokesman for the Darra Adam Khel faction of the Pakistan Taliban told Reuters by telephone from an undisclosed location. ……………….

arun · Post by **arun** » 20 Jul 2012 20:47

In the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, a country claimed to have been set up as a safe haven for the Mohammaddens of the Indian Sub-Continent, being Mohammadden is not “Pure” enough to prevent being relegated to the fate of Dhimmi Kaafirs and being predated upon by one’s own co-religionists for religious reasons if one has the misfortune of belonging to a minority sect.

Green on Green Intra-Mohammadden violence sees an adherent of the minority Ahmadi / Ahmadiyya sect of Mohammaddenism being targeted and gunned down by motor-cycle borne killers by his co-religionists.

The Ahmadi’s /Ahmadiyya’s must really be regretting the enthusiastic support they gave for forcing a partition of the Indian Sub – Continent to create a zone for Mohammaddens:

Hate violence: Ahmadi leader gunned down in Karachi

anupmisra · Post by **anupmisra** » 22 Jul 2012 19:32

Hindu families protest occupation of land

Some families of the Hindu community held a demonstration outside the press club here on Saturday in protest against the alleged occupation of their properties by influential persons in their village near Hala.

They said influential people threatened to kill them if they did not leave the village.

arun · Post by **arun** » 22 Jul 2012 22:11

^^^ Instances of Mohammaddens grabbing the land of Non-Mohammadden is not uncommon in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Such is the pitiable state of affairs that “kaafir” “dhimmi’s” have to endure at the hands of the “momin” in the Mohammadden majority Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

A news item dating back a couple of days from the Express Tribune:

Christians hold demo: Pindi MNA accused of grabbing church, hospital land

Roperia · Post by **Roperia** » 27 Jul 2012 20:38

Pakistani religious scholars urge the descendants of Alexander The Great to convert to Islam to have a better life.

arun · Post by **arun** » 29 Jul 2012 09:40

Confirmation that in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan discrimination of Non-Mohammaddens is not because of a breakdown in the law, rather it is because of the law.

One of the extremely rare Non-Mohammdden’s who made the Islamic Republic of Pakistan’s Supreme Court. Justice (retd) Rana Bhagwandas:

Under constitution: Minorities are deemed less preferred citizens, says jurist

arun · Post by **arun** » 29 Jul 2012 09:55

The downside of having to live in a Mohammadden majority country like the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is to suffer the consequences of Mohammadden Religious inspired practices that have been designed to relegate Non-Mohammadden to the pitiable status of Dhimmi:

Why should minorities suffer in Ramazan?

The drastic decline of Pakistani minorities

Muns · Post by **Muns** » 29 Jul 2012 22:09

Conversion of Hindu Boy to Islam Was Broadcast Live on Pakistani Media (Video)

http://www.chakranews.com/conversion-of ... media/3048

http://daily.bhaskar.com/article/WOR-SA ... 82158.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4n4y4Xv9Ao

Roperia · Post by **Roperia** » 30 Jul 2012 20:45

Three Hindu traders kidnapped in Kalat, Balochistan, Minority groups protest | Tribune

arun · Post by **arun** » 30 Jul 2012 21:29

Muns wrote:Conversion of Hindu Boy to Islam Was Broadcast Live on Pakistani Media (Video)

http://www.chakranews.com/conversion-of ... media/3048

http://daily.bhaskar.com/article/WOR-SA ... 82158.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4n4y4Xv9Ao

A case of the Law of Karma coming into play and one despicable act on a Ramadan / Ramazan live television special in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan inviting retribution on another Ramadan / Ramazan live television special ?

Brad Goodman wrote:Police: Fire kills four Pakistan TV Ramadan guests

Pakistan: Four television guests were killed reciting prayers during a live Ramadan broadcast in Pakistan on Monday, when fire gutted a studio in the eastern city of Lahore, police said.

arun · Post by **arun** » 08 Aug 2012 07:26

The two faces of religious persecution in Pakistan

arun · Post by **arun** » 08 Aug 2012 07:27

In the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, religious persecution does not necessarily represent a breakdown in the law but rather is frequently a result of the law:

Ahmadi charged with posing as Muslim for second time in Sargodha

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 11 Aug 2012 08:43

Pakistan Holds Hindu Pilgrims to India Briefly over Exodus Fears - Anita Joshua in The Hindu

Over 200 Hindu families were allowed to cross into Amristar on Friday on their scheduled pilgrimage after a brief detention by Pakistani authorities in Lahore following reports that they were planning to migrate to India to escape from abductions and attacks on their businesses in Upper Sindh.

Though such pilgrimages to temples in India are an annual affair around this time of the year, they caught the media eye this year because of the spate of attacks on members of the Hindu community in Upper Sindh. Several members of the community in Jacobabad are said to have shut shop, sold their properties and moved out of the Upper Sindh district in recent months for fear of their daughters being kidnapped and forcibly converted.

According to the vice-chairman of Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (Sindh chapter), Amarnath, 50 per cent of the Hindu community in Upper Sindh have moved out — most of them to the melting pot of Karachi and some to other countries.

After the “exodus” from Jacobabad made it to the Sindhi papers, it was picked up by the national media and became an issue over the past 24 hours with Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Thursday night claiming it was a conspiracy and that the Indian High Commission should explain why so many visas had been issued.

However, various Hindu community leaders maintained that this was “yatra season” and people went on the pilgrimage in large groups.

“They are all going on a short-stay visa for pilgrimage or to meet their families. Whether they will all return is not certain,”' Mr. Amarnath told The Hindu , claiming that over the past three years 3,000 families have moved to India. Last year 300 families had gone to India on pilgrimage and 60 of them stayed back.

While Hindus and other minorities in Sindh have always had it better than their counterparts elsewhere in the country, they have of late become targets; primarily because of a degree of prosperity among some sections of the community.

This has made them easy prey for the Wadheras (feudal lords) of the province. Ironically, the Wadheras who have been giving the community maximum grief owe allegiance to the Pakistan People’s Party, which is said to be the most minority-friendly of all political organisations of Pakistan.

Hindus who participated in various television talk shows over the past 24 hours said the Wadheras were targeting them primarily to get them to leave their areas so that their properties can be taken over.

Meanwhile, President Asif Ali Zardari has called for a report on the situation and civil society members agitated by reports of Hindus fleeing their country sought to mobilise support for them and petition the Supreme Court but this was of little consolation to a community which feels let down by the superior judiciary in the Rinkle Kumari case. {Even Zardari let them down because it was a PPP leader who orchestrated the forcible conversion of Rinkle Kumari. Contrary to belief, it was not a Deobandi ulema who abetted the crime. It was a sufi Brelvi guy}

Really, really pathetic. It is even more pathetic when Zafar Hilaly, himself a Shi'a and therefore oppressed as well as a prime target for qateel, bravely tries to defend the indefensible (TimesNow debate last night).

Prem · Post by **Prem** » 11 Aug 2012 11:29

Our treatment of Hindus

Poaqanku Putt, Takiya hai Yaan magarmach ke Anssoon

Chief Minister Sindh Qaim Ali Shah at least had the decency to respond to the reports by setting up a three-member committee led by Sindh Minister for Minority Affairs Mukesh Kumar Chawla to report back on the issue within a week.. However, the minister has already compromised the credibility of the committee even before it has started its work by stating that the reports of migration are exaggerated and Hindu girls are eloping with Muslim boys of their own free will. The SSP Jacobabad has delivered the priceless comment that security is being provided to the Hindu community. In other words all is well in the best of all possible worlds and the SSP can therefore go back to sleep. But the cake is taken by Interior Minister Rehman Malik. With his usual penchant for a strange and twisted take on most things, the interior minister sees conspiracies under every bed and behind every bush. This migration issue too, according to Rehman Malik’s wisdom, is a conspiracy involving the Indian High Commission for issuing visas for India to 250 Hindu citizens of Pakistan, ostensibly for religious pilgrimage.
Interviews in the press with some of the departing Hindu families in Lahore, en route to Wagah, reveal a mixed picture. Some interviewees were quite candid that their lives had been turned into a living hell because of insecurity, and although they were travelling to India for a religious pilgrimage, might decide to stay on there if they found it convivial. Others were at pains to deny any intent to migrate. Those in the latter category may not have been speaking from the heart, or at least been cautious so as not to make matters for those staying behind even worse. Reports indicate that the 60 families who have torn themselves away from their and their forefathers’ homeland may only be the tip of the iceberg, or a possible tidal wave to follow.
Ironically, while tearful relatives were bidding goodbye to the families leaving from the Lahore Railway Station, Pakistan’s ambassador to the US was reassuring an American audience that Pakistan protects the rights of religious minorities. On the very same day, President Asif Ali Zardari was speaking at a commemoration of National Minorities Day, declared on every August 11 in recognition of the message in the Quaid’s speech to the constituent assembly in 1947. The president stated that misuse of the blasphemy law would not be allowed. Both Ambassador Rehman and President Zardari’s statements are well intentioned and reflect the best of principles, but with due respect, they are divorced from our ground realities. Four decades of promotion of religious extremism in the name of jihad are now bearing their over-ripe malign fruit. Pakistani society today is riven with intolerance, religious prejudice and violence against religious minorities

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 13 Aug 2012 10:00

Pak Hindus seek support of Indian & US missions

With no let-up in crimes against Hindus in Mirpurkhas area of Pakistan's Sindh province from where nearly 20 families have left the country, the minority community leaders from the region have approached the Indian and US missions for help. The Hindu community in Mirpurkhas and its surrounding areas is being targeted by criminals day in and day out and police were paying no heed to their plight, Hindu panchayat chairman Laxmandas Perwani said.

Hindu families were left with no option but to leave Pakistan and at least 18 families had migrated, a majority of them to India and some to Dubai, during the past five months, Perwani told Geo News channel. During the same period, the homes of 70 Hindu families in Mirpurkhas and nearby areas were burgled, he said.

Two youths were killed for not paying extortion money and two kidnapped businessmen were freed after they paid millions of rupees as ransom, he added. With no let up in the incidents in which Hindus were targeted, members of the Hindu Panchayat sent letters to the Indian high commission and US embassy, seeking their help, he said.

Perwani, a former member of the Sindh assembly, said the step of writing to foreign missions was taken after the police and politicians did not pay heed to the grievances of the Hindus. The kidnapping of a 14-year-old Hindu girl, Manisha Kumari, from Jacobabad on Aug 7 sparked widespread concern in the minority community.

rajanb · Post by **rajanb** » 13 Aug 2012 10:21

There was a comment on one of the posts that it was not only seems that the pakjabis oppress minorities, but the sindhis do too.

Guess what? During the partition, who do you think indulged in arson, looting, brutal physical attacks on Hindus in Karachi and Hyderabad sindh? The muslim sindhis. So the concept that it is only the pakjabis do it is wrong. When it comes to money and property all shades of Pakis do it.

It was only individuals, in pakiland, who did not twist religion for personal gain, who assisted a lot of us Hindu Sindhis to escape safely with only the clothes on our back.

Vasu · Post by **Vasu** » 13 Aug 2012 15:21

Lok Sabha discusses plight of Pakistani Hindus

Members of BJP, BJD and SP referred to instances of growing violence and harassment of minorities in that country and demanded that Parliament should adopt a resolution condemning it.

Raising the issue during Zero Hour, BJP leader Rajnath Singh said minorities, particularly Hindus and Sikhs, were feeling insecure in Pakistan.

He said some 20 Hindu and Sikh families have fled to India and sought Indian citizenship in view of the persecution.

Singh said around 250 Pakistani pilgrims, who came to India, were asked to give an undertaking by Pakistani authorities that they would not utter a word in India about their plight.

SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav demanded a discussion on the matter in Parliament so that “there is no reaction to such incidents in India” and said this was “not a religious but a humanitarian issue”.

B Mahtab (BJD) referred to a Pakistani school girl Ifra Siddiqui’s writing in which she had spoken of how religious minorities were forced to live in fear there and migrate to other countries.

He said the population of religious minorities in undivided Pakistan was to the tune of 26 percent, but it has now come down to only two percent.

Paki barbarians being discussed in the Lok Sabha.

Took them this long but I hope this issue can now be highlighted across the globe as an example of the great social advances this country has made since their establishment.

Would love to see the sickular parties stand up on this issue as well.

Vikas · Post by **Vikas** » 13 Aug 2012 15:38

rajanb wrote:There was a comment on one of the posts that it was not only seems that the pakjabis oppress minorities, but the sindhis do too.

Guess what? During the partition, who do you think indulged in arson, looting, brutal physical attacks on Hindus in Karachi and Hyderabad sindh? The muslim sindhis. So the concept that it is only the pakjabis do it is wrong. When it comes to money and property all shades of Pakis do it.

It was only individuals, in pakiland, who did not twist religion for personal gain, who assisted a lot of us Hindu Sindhis to escape safely with only the clothes on our back.

Rajanb, that was mentioned in my post.

http://forums.bharat-rakshak.com/viewto ... &start=720

arun · Post by **arun** » 15 Aug 2012 21:32

X Posted from the “ISI-History and Discussions” thread.

Baloch Nationalist media outlet, “Baloch Warna” reports that the Vice Chairman of the Baloch National Movement , Saeed Yousaf Baloch , says that Pakistani Intelligence agencies are patronizing “criminal gangs to loot and abduct Hindu traders and professionals for ransom and defame Baloch nationalist movement”.

“The pro-independent political parties think that in abduction of Hindus for ransom and looting their shops is no doubt, move of a Pakistani patronized criminal groups who are being used to counter Baloch freedom movement ; therefore, they have been given free hand to kidnap Hindus in Balochistan. These professional criminals also collaborate with FC and intelligence agencies in “Abduct, kill and dump” of Baloch political activists.”

Read it all:

State backed gangs kidnapping Hindus to defame Baloch struggle: BNM

arun · Post by **arun** » 16 Aug 2012 07:29

The Washington Post on the persecution meted out to Hindu’s in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan:

Hindus from Pakistan flee to India, citing religious persecution

Aditya_V · Post by **Aditya_V** » 16 Aug 2012 17:13

When do you think the Shia exodus will start, looks like things are shaping for 1947 type attack on the Shias.

20 Shias killed in Pakistan: Official

Aditya_V · Post by **Aditya_V** » 16 Aug 2012 20:18

Sorry Upward revesion
Green on green death toll increases, is there a collection of total shia deaths in Pakistan. I feel that the faithful once the syrian regime collapses will go against large scale blood letting against Ahmedis and Shias.

25 Shias shot dead in Pakistan

Vikas · Post by **Vikas** » 16 Aug 2012 20:26

Ahemdias , Sindhis and Shias of Pakistan - You have my crocodile tears and nothing else. Enjoy this zoombie party called Pakistan.
You can't sow murder and rape of your motherland and not reap the She-dog.

RamaY · Post by **RamaY** » 16 Aug 2012 20:30

^+1.

At one point in history the so-called SECULARISTS reasoned that the minorities in respective countries act as the insurance for majority of people in Hindustan and Pakistan.

The SECULAR India stood silent when millions of minorities are oppressed in Pakistan and Bangladesh. Now the minorities of India are playing Havoc and the same Secularists are protecting them.

Rahul M · Post by **Rahul M** » 18 Aug 2012 10:25

Derek O'brien writes on the O'briens who chose to stay in pakistan.
http://quizderek.blogspot.com/2012/08/t ... l?spref=fb

arun · Post by **arun** » 19 Aug 2012 09:56

The Mohammadden Sabbath of Friday in the holy month of Ramadan / Ramazan / Ramzan brings forth yet more Green on Green violence in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, the “Land of the Pure”, with the more pure seeking to eliminate the less pure.

Mohammaddens of the minority Shia sect attacked by their co-religionists in Karachi:

Bomb hits Shia bus in Karachi; one killed 11 wounded

Mohammaddens of the minority Shia sect attacked by their co-religionists in Quetta:

Pakistan: 3 More Shia Muslims Martyred as Extremists Open Fire in Quetta

So much for the Islamic Republic of Pakistan’s claims of being a safe haven for Mohammaddens of the Indian Sub-Continent.

arun · Post by **arun** » 19 Aug 2012 10:10

X Posted from the TSP thread.

Dipanker wrote:When will these Neanderthals come out of 7th century?

11-year-old christian girl arrested in Pakistan on charges of blasphemy

arun · Post by **arun** » 19 Aug 2012 10:13

X Post from the TSP thread on the persecution of members of the minority Ahmadi / Ahmadiyya sect of Mohammaddenism by their co-religionists.

Anujan wrote:http://tribune.com.pk/story/423802/poli ... t-clashes/

A heavy police contingent on Friday, on the demand of a banned organisation , removed Quranic verses and religious texts written on tombstones of Ahmadi graves to save the area from clashes on religious grounds.

Calling it a positive achievement, the SHO claimed that no case had been filed against the act as it was meant to save the locality from clashes.

arun · Post by **arun** » 20 Aug 2012 11:38

Members of the minority Mohammadden Ahmadiyya / Ahmadi sect ought to be regretting their support for the partition of India and the creation of a so called safe haven for the Mohammaddens of the Indian Sub-Continent as their Mohammadden co-religionists of the Sunni sect are ensuring that the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is most certainly not a safe haven for the Ahmadiyya’s:

Islamic text removed from Ahmadi's shop, home in Sheikhupura

Almi Majlis-e-Tahaffuz-e-Khatam-e-Nabuwat members, police committed the act. Police says took steps to maintain peace.

By Rabia Mehmood
Published: August 20, 2012

LAHORE: Members of an Islamic organisation removed Quranic texts and religious words from the shop of an Ahmadi family in Kot Abdul Malik, Sheikhupura, on August 14 with the help of local police.

Factory Area Police had gone to Qamar Zia’s mobile shop with members of an Islamic organisation, Almi Majlis-e-Tahaffuz-e-Khatam-e-Nabuwat and removed two lines of Quranic texts and the word Mash’Allah from outside the shop and inside as well.

His father’s name “Muhammad Ali” inscribed on the gate of the residence, next to Zia’s shop, was also removed with the help of welding equipment and then painted over…………………

Read it all:

Express Tribune

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 20 Aug 2012 16:34

Memoirs of a Hindu girl

abhishek_sharma · Post by **abhishek_sharma** » 21 Aug 2012 08:05

From Pakistan with fear

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 21 Aug 2012 08:59

After the blasphemy case against the mentally-challenged 11-year old girl, Pak Christians flee Islamabad suburb - Anita Joshua in The Hindu

About 300 Christian families residing in a cluster along the outskirts of the federal capital have fled the area fearing a backlash after an 11-year-old Down Syndrome-afflicted girl was arrested on charges of blasphemy last Friday. . . Civil society activists working in the area claim the whole incident could be a trumped up charge as an attempt was underway to oust the Christians residing in the area. What has angered NGOs the most is that the area police is said to have encouraged the Christians to flee the area instead of providing them protection.

Aditya_V · Post by **Aditya_V** » 21 Aug 2012 09:52

SSridhar wrote:After the blasphemy case against the mentally-challenged 11-year old girl, Pak Christians flee Islamabad suburb - Anita Joshua in The Hindu
About 300 Christian families residing in a cluster along the outskirts of the federal capital have fled the area fearing a backlash after an 11-year-old Down Syndrome-afflicted girl was arrested on charges of blasphemy last Friday. . . Civil society activists working in the area claim the whole incident could be a trumped up charge as an attempt was underway to oust the Christians residing in the area. What has angered NGOs the most is that the area police is said to have encouraged the Christians to flee the area instead of providing them protection.

Isn't Anita Joshua the former CNN and TIme reporter who was always pro pak and anti Indian army on Kashmir, she should be sent to Isloo suburb with her religion published for supporting the Pakis to see thier true nature.

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 21 Aug 2012 10:25

Aditya_V, I doubt if they are the same person.

arun · Post by **arun** » 21 Aug 2012 11:02

Aditya_V wrote:
SSridhar wrote:After the blasphemy case against the mentally-challenged 11-year old girl, Pak Christians flee Islamabad suburb - Anita Joshua in The Hindu
Isn't Anita Joshua the former CNN and TIme reporter who was always pro pak and anti Indian army on Kashmir, she should be sent to Isloo suburb with her religion published for supporting the Pakis to see thier true nature.

The former CNN reporter is Anita Pratap.

Rahul M · Post by **Rahul M** » 21 Aug 2012 15:05

"I still hope I will return some day to do a biography of Pirabhakaran. That’s one of the few remaining unfulfilled dreams I have left in my life. I have no doubts that he is the most important guerilla leader of our times."

Ms. Anita Pratap currently, got married with the Norwegian Ambassador to India (from 1995 to 1999) Mr. Arne Walther (her second marriage) whom she encountered at a cocktail party.

Anita (nee Simon) was born in Kottayam, Kerala state in south India to Catholic parents. After she obtained her diploma from the University of Bangalore, she was given a job as a correspondent by Arun Shourie then the Editor of the Indian Express and also worked for India Today. After a short stint in Delhi she requested to be transferred to Bangalore where her parents were living at that time. There she met Pratap Chandradn a senior reporter and later married to him and they have one son. For whom she fiercely fought over the custody. Ultimately Anita won because Zubin meant more to her than any other person in the world. She worked eight years as a correspondent for Time Magazine before joining for CNN news channel.

http://www.asiantribune.com/?q=node/17881