Oppression of minorities in Pakistan

arun · Post by **arun** » 24 Apr 2011 08:16

Fox News reports on the sad plight of Dhimmi Infidels of the Christian religion in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, the worlds first Ideological Muslim state and sole Islamic nuclear weapon power:

Pakistan's Deprived Christian Community Say They're Being Persecuted for U.S. Drone Strikes

arun · Post by **arun** » 24 Apr 2011 10:49

X posted from the Oppression of Minorities in Pakistan thread.

Sindhi Nationalist leaders killed “by the death squads of Pakistani intelligence agencies”:

BHRC Strongly Condemns the brutal Killing Of Sindhi Leaders

The killings dated to April 21 in Bakhorri Mori area of Sanghar district in Sindh Provence with the Sindhi nationalists fingering “personnel of law enforcement agencies” :

Three JSMM leaders shot dead in Sanghar dist

arun · Post by **arun** » 01 May 2011 07:46

In the Islamic Republic of Pakistan members the overwhelming Mohammadden majority shown the Dhimmi followers of Christianism their lowly place with suspicion of an act of blasphemy being committed prompting a Mohammadden mob to ransack a Church:

Religious clash on blasphemy Protestors destroy Church, police headquarters

arun · Post by **arun** » 08 May 2011 10:06

In the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, self claimed haven for the Mohammaddens of the Indian Sub-Continent neither the “Islamic Republic” nor the “Safe haven for Mohammaddens” tag is sufficient for Mohammaddens belonging to the minority Shia / Shiite to escape the depredations of their co-religionists.

Sunni Mohammadden Islamic Terrorist group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi kills 8 Shia’s in Quetta on Friday, the day of the Mohammadden sabbath :

8 Shias killed in gun, rocket attack in Quetta

arun · Post by **arun** » 12 May 2011 07:41

X Posted.

Extra-judicial killings of the Baloch ethnic minority by the Punjabi dominated security forces continues:

shravan wrote:Five more political activists found dead in Balochistan

arun · Post by **arun** » 22 May 2011 09:35

In the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, self claimed haven for the Mohammaddens of the Indian Sub-Continent neither the “Islamic Republic” nor the “Safe haven for Mohammaddens” tag is sufficient for Mohammaddens belonging to the minority Shia / Shiite to escape the depredations of their co-religionists.

Iran‘s ABNA reports:

Two Shia Brothers Martyred in Karachi

Meanwhile the press of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan seems to be going to great lengths to disguise the intra-Mohammadden sectarian aspect of these murders. Nowhere in this article by Dawn is the sectarian identity of the victims disclosed. A reader is left to infer that from the comment by the Jaffria Alliance which is a Shia Mohammadden outfit:

Two lawyer brothers shot dead in Mauripur

arun · Post by **arun** » 02 Jun 2011 21:36

Mohammadden clerics in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan seek to have parts of the Bible declared blasphemous or alternatively banned:

June 01, 2011

Pakistani Muslims Want to Ban the Bible

A group of radical clerics in Pakistan wants the country's Supreme Court to declare certain passages in the Bible blasphemous - because they depict as flawed certain biblical characters whom Muslims regard as Islamic prophets.

If the court fails to do so, they said, then lawyers will submit an application for the Bible to be formally banned in Pakistan. …………………..

Fox News

arun · Post by **arun** » 03 Jun 2011 08:20

X Posted from the “Baluchistan: The Story of Another Pakistan Military Genocide” thread.

In the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, a nation claimed to have been created as a safe haven for the Mohammaddens of the Indian Sub-Continent, teaching Islamic Studies seems to offer no protection from targeted killing if one happens to be a freedom loving Baloch / Baluchi seeking to escape the yoke of servitude under the Pakistani Punjabi :

Target Killing: Prominent Baloch Intellectual Shot Dead

Anindya · Post by **Anindya** » 07 Jun 2011 09:20

From http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/story ... 38751.html

First the admission of charging jizya from Hindus....

Police officials told India Today on condition of anonymity that many Hindus pay regular bhatta (protection money) to different groups of extortionists. Hindus in Pakistan contend that their insecurity is compounded by the apathy of the administration and the judiciary.

...and some other selected quotes from the article...

Research done by local agencies says that on average 25 Hindu girls are kidnapped and converted every month in Pakistan.

In March, Poonam, a 13-year-old Hindu girl kidnapped last year, was forced to convert in the Lyari area of Karachi in Pakistan's Sindh province. Her parents were stunned by the influence the maulvis (Islamic scholars) had over their daughter. "She was very scared. She told us that she was now going to live with them as a Muslim," Poonam's uncle, Bhanwroo, 61, told India Today. Poonam is now Mariam.

No one protested against Poonam's conversion because almost every Hindu family in Lyari has endured religious persecution for years. Kidnapping is routine in Pakistan. But what has shaken the 2.7 million-strong Hindu community in a nation of 168 million Muslims are recent forced conversions of young girls.

"In Karachi alone, Hindu girls are kidnapped on a routine basis," Amarnath Motumal, an activist and council member of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, told India Today. "People are scared. The kidnappings and conversions are done by influential people of the region. The victims prefer to remain silent to save their lives."

Members of the Hindu community in Larkana in Sindh province recall the tragic tale of Sundri, an 18-year-old college student. One day in 2004, Sundri did not come back home after classes. After a long search, her family went to the police. Two weeks later, the police informed the family that Sundri had eloped with Kamal Khan, an employee of a local transport company, and converted to Islam. Sundri's parents were also informed that their daughter would soon appear in court to declare her new faith. Escorted by the police and a few men sporting long beards, Sundri appeared in court to state: "I, Sundri, was born of Hindu parents. Now, as an adult, I have realised the religion I was born into is not the right one. Therefore, completely of my own accord, and without being coerced, I have decided to break away from my parents and religion, and have converted to Islam."

The judge accepted her conversion and Sundri was whisked away to an unknown location. She is learnt to have later married Khan but was divorced very soon. Subsequently, she married another Muslim from the neighbourhood. This marriage, too, ended in divorce and Sundri was married for the third time. Shortly after her third marriage, Sundri died under mysterious circumstances. Her parents believe she was murdered, while her third husband told the police that she had committed suicide. "Kidnapping Hindu girls like this has become routine. The girls are then forced to sign papers stating that they have become Muslims," says Laljee Menghwar, a member of the Hindu panchayat in Karachi.

Narad · Post by **Narad** » 07 Jun 2011 12:31

A Christian can’t present the provincial budget in Pakistani Punjab

Several provincial legislators in Punjab belonging to the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) have objected to Punjab cabinet member Kamran Michael presenting the budget on grounds that he is Christian, sources within the party told The Express Tribune.
Sources say PML-N leaders are in a bind trying to figure out who to assign the finance ministry portfolio before the budget is presented before the Punjab Assembly on June 10.

arun · Post by **arun** » 07 Jun 2011 22:19

In the Land of the Pure, Mohammaddens need have absolutely no fear that murdering Dhimmi’s has any consequences.

The Courts of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan predictably acquit all 70 Mohammadden suspects in the torching of a Christian ghetto at Gojra which resulted in the deaths of 8 Christian’s :

70 suspects in Gojra incident acquitted

arun · Post by **arun** » 14 Jun 2011 08:25

X Posted from the TSP main thread.

In a country self-claimed to have been created as a safe haven for the Mohammaddens of the Indian Sub-Continent one sub-sect of Mohammaddens are being intimidated by another sub-sect of Mohammaddens simply for following a different variant of Mohamaddenism.

When violence motivated by interpretations of Mohammaddenism targeting fellow Mohammaddens is so rampant in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, what hope is there for the Non-Mohammaddens of that country?:

Pakistan's Sufi Muslims brave bombs to worship

A campaign of deadly suicide attacks fails to intimidate the mystic strain, which embraces tolerance and eschews the rigidity that characterizes hard-line Islamist doctrine.

By Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times

June 14, 2011
Reporting from Lahore, Pakistan— Amid the throngs of Sufi Muslim followers streaming through the white marble corridors of the Data Darbar shrine, a young man in a cream-colored tunic and oversized sunglasses shuffled gingerly, guided by a brother on one side and his father on the other.

Twice a month Qasim Javed Malik comes here, a place he associates with spiritual recharging, not with the deafening clap of a suicide bomb blast, the odor of charred flesh, the blinding flash before everything went black.
"There's a strong divine attraction that pulls me here," Malik, 28, said softly, his face and hands pocked with scars from a suicide bomb attack at the shrine last summer that also left him blind. "I cannot stop coming here."

Neither can thousands of other Pakistani adherents to Sufism, despite a campaign of suicide bombings targeting a strain of Islam that embraces tolerance, welcomes women to its shrines and eschews the rigidity that characterizes hard-line Islamist doctrine.

It's an open-mindedness that doesn't track with the attitude of the country's militant groups. Since last summer, militants have attacked Sufi shrines in four cities, killing at least 102 people and injuring 348. The blast that robbed Malik of his eyesight killed 47 people and injured 170. The latest suicide bomb attack, at a shrine in the city of Dera Ghazi Khan on April 3, killed 41 people.

"They consider it a service to Islam to cleanse the religion of all impurities," said Abdul Basit, an analyst at the Pak Institute for Peace Studies. "And for the militants, these practices at the shrines are impurities." ..................................

L.A.Times

arun · Post by **arun** » 16 Jun 2011 20:26

Gunmen kill Olympic boxer in Pakistan

16/06/2011 13:47:00

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QUETTA, (AFP) - Gunmen on Thursday shot dead a Pakistani Olympic boxer in the volatile southwest that borders Afghanistan and Iran, police said.

He was killed in Quetta, the capital of oil- and gas-rich Baluchistan province which is in the throes of sectarian violence and a separatist insurgency.

"Two gunmen riding a motorbike opened fire on Abrar Hussain, the former Olympian and chief of the local sports board, as he came out of his office," local police official Hamid Shakeel told AFP.

He said Hussain, who was a member of the minority Shiite Muslim community, died of his injuries upon reaching hospital.

"Nobody has so far claimed responsibility of the attack but it seems like a sectarian killing," Shakeel added……………………………….

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arun · Post by **arun** » 23 Jun 2011 06:43

Suspected Mohammadden on Mohammadden religious violence inspired by sectarian differences results in 3 pilgrims belonging to the minority Shia sect being gunned down in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan at Quetta:

Gunman kills Shia pilgrims in bus attack: police

arun · Post by **arun** » 04 Jul 2011 08:16

Enthusiastic supporters of the idea of carving out a country exclusively for the Mohammaddens of the Indian Sub-Continent, namely adherents of the minority Ahamadi/Ahmaddiyya sect of Mohammaddenism, continue to pay the price for the support of such a bigoted idea:

Insecure minorities: Threatened at home, jailed abroad

arun · Post by **arun** » 08 Jul 2011 06:52

The horror of being a Non-Mohammadden in an Islamic Republic .

Raymond Ibrahim writes in the Middle East Forum on the sexual exploitation of Christian women by Mohammadden men in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan:

Pakistan’s Christian ‘Sex-Slaves’: A Case Study

arun · Post by **arun** » 09 Jul 2011 07:17

Following the Mohammadden religion in an IEDological Muslim State and Islamic Republic claimed to have been created as a safe haven for the Mohammaddens of the Indian Sub-Continent brings no succour for the Balochi’s / Baluchi’s.

Peter Tatchell on the oppression of the Baloch / Baluchi by the Punjabi dominated security forces of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan:

Saturday, July 09, 2011

Pakistan: Secret, dirty killings in Balochistan

Peter G Tatchell

Pakistan’s secret, dirty killings in the province of Balochistan are escalating, according to the Asian Human Rights Commission.

Since the beginning of this year, at least 36 Baloch journalists, writers, human rights defenders, students, nationalists and political activists have been killed extrajudicially. Pakistan’s security services are accused of orchestrating the murders, in a bid to crush Baloch nationalism.

This intensified wave of repression is corroborated by Amnesty International. It has documented the disappearance or murder of 90 persons in ‘kill and dump’ attacks between last November and February 2011. …………………………….

Huffington Post

arun · Post by **arun** » 12 Jul 2011 06:56

In the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, a country claimed to have been created as a safe haven for the Mohammaddens of the Indian Sub-Continent, Mohammaddens belonging to the Shia / Shiite sect find no safety from the predation of their Sunni co-religionists:

Gunman kills three in Pakistan sectarian attack

archan · Post by **archan** » 18 Jul 2011 22:20

Sikhs in Lahore Prevented from Celebrating Festival

The Sikh community in the eastern city of Lahore has been barred from organizing a religious celebration at a disputed gurudwara after a religious group persuaded authorities that celebrating the Muslim holy day of 'Shab-e-Barat' is more important than the Sikh festival.

The musical equipment of the Sikhs was thrown out and their entry to the gurudwara barred due to the efforts of the Dawat-e-Islami, a Barelvi proselytizing group, The Express Tribune newspaper reported today.

Police were deployed outside the gurudwara to prevent Sikhs from conducting a religious ceremony until after the end of Shab-e-Barat, which falls tomorrow.

RajeshA · Post by **RajeshA** » 19 Jul 2011 18:15

Published on Jul 11, 2011
By Z. Ali
Love hurts: Hindu couple marries outside press club as a sign of protest: The Express Tribune Pakistan

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http://tribune.com.pk/story/206929/love-hurts-hindu-couple-marries-outside-press-club-as-a-sign-of-protest/

HYDERABAD: Mukhesh and Padma walked around fire, seven times, to tie the knot, but without the pomp and splendour which is the essence of traditional Hindu weddings. The ceremony served a dual purpose, it was a wedding and a protest. It highlighted the Hindu community’s demand for laws that register their marriages in Pakistan.

“Since 1947, Hindu couples have not been legally accepted as husband and wife,” says Guru Sukh Dev who solemnised the wedding by reciting Vedic verses. “Consequently, many domestic, social and psychological problems arise for Hindu families, especially for the women.”

The demonstration was organised by a local leader of scheduled caste communities, Ramesh Mal. He said that since the creation of Pakistan there have been no laws for Hindu marriages. “The Pakistani government should take a cue from India and introduce laws to protect Hindu marriages,” said Mal.

According to him, they have problems acquiring national identity cards and passports, registering married women, and conducting property transfers. Even travelling becomes difficult for them inside the country.

Mal said that many young girls from his community are abducted, forced to convert to other religions and forcefully married. This happens because laws to protect these Hindu girls do not exist in Pakistan.

The protesters chanted slogans, urging President Zardari to issue an ordinance for their marriage registration laws, until a law is enacted.

One of the protestors, Sapna Devi, said that she had been married for 17 years but she had no legal evidence of the union. “God forbid, if he passes away, I will be unable to claim his property,” she explained.

The newly wed couple, hailing from the district of Khairpur, said that, “though their wedding may have seemed strange because it was performed in an unusual manner, in front of the media, outside the press club, it marked the beginning of their new life”. The purpose of doing it this way was to show the world that they were deprived of this basic right.

Quoting the 1998 census, Mal told The Express Tribune that scheduled caste Hindus, who led the protest, comprise more than one-third of the 3.4 million Hindus in Pakistan. He said that the parliament has eight minority MNAs to represent the Hindu community, but their fight for marriage registration laws have yet to produce results.

SBajwa · Post by **SBajwa** » 20 Jul 2011 07:19

Members of the Hindu community in Larkana in Sindh province recall the tragic tale of Sundri, an 18-year-old college student. One day in 2004, Sundri did not come back home after classes. After a long search, her family went to the police. Two weeks later, the police informed the family that Sundri had eloped with Kamal Khan, an employee of a local transport company, and converted to Islam. Sundri's parents were also informed that their daughter would soon appear in court to declare her new faith. Escorted by the police and a few men sporting long beards, Sundri appeared in court to state: "I, Sundri, was born of Hindu parents. Now, as an adult, I have realised the religion I was born into is not the right one. Therefore, completely of my own accord, and without being coerced, I have decided to break away from my parents and religion, and have converted to Islam."

The judge accepted her conversion and Sundri was whisked away to an unknown location. She is learnt to have later married Khan but was divorced very soon. Subsequently, she married another Muslim from the neighbourhood. This marriage, too, ended in divorce and Sundri was married for the third time. Shortly after her third marriage, Sundri died under mysterious circumstances. Her parents believe she was murdered, while her third husband told the police that she had committed suicide. "Kidnapping Hindu girls like this has become routine. The girls are then forced to sign papers stating that they have become Muslims," says Laljee Menghwar, a member of the Hindu panchayat in Karachi.

It is so unfortunate that we do not have Khalsa any more to save Sundri's.

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 26 Jul 2011 13:38

Pakistani dalits complain against discrimination

Pakistan’s scheduled caste minorities or Dalits have expressed serious concern over social and economic discrimination against them, including organised attempts to reduce their share in the overall population of Pakistan in the house counting and forthcoming census.

As well as in forced labour, abduction of Dalit girls and then their forced conversion to Islam and illegal occupation of religious places of the minorities. Representatives of the scheduled caste were speaking at a meeting of the Pakistan Dalit Solidarity Network held at the Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research Centre (PILER).

The participants expressed their concern over the exclusion policies against the Dalit population everywhere in Pakistan and demanded the government to provide protection to them and allot government land to the landless peasants of the low-caste monitories’ communities. A large number of Dalit families are working at the lands of big landlords, where they face torture and bonded labour. The representatives of the scheduled cast communities demanded that the share of Dalits in employment, educational scholarships, national resources, development schemes and in parliament is inadequate, which should be enhanced according to their proportion in the overall population.

The primary schools in many areas in Tharparkar district are either closed or not functioning and there are no health facilities in the localities of Dalits, they said. They decried that political parties are providing assembly tickets for the reserved seats of minorities to only the upper caste Hindus, whereas actually the scheduled caste population is much more than the upper caste Hindus in Pakistan, but in practice it is ignored.

They feared that in the forthcoming census, the population ratio of Dalits in the overall minorities would further be reduced, as many scheduled caste people could include themselves in the category of Hindus, where a separate category of “Scheduled Caste” is also included in the religion column. They underlined the need to create awareness among Dalit families for getting themselves registered in the census as a “Scheduled Caste.”

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 26 Jul 2011 17:25

Violence against Shia Hazara community increases - Newsline, July 2011

It is a reflection of the state of lawlessness in Balochistan that the target killing of Abrar Hussain – a former Pakistani boxer of international renown and a deputy director of Pakistan Sports Board – in Quetta on June 16 is already old news. Hussain had represented Pakistan in three Olympics and was the recipient of the prestigious Sitara-e-Imtiaz and the presidential Pride of Performance. However, for his killers, apparently the only thing that defined him was the fact that he was a member of the Shia Hazara community. The Hazaras in Balochistan, particularly in Quetta, have been targeted for over a decade for no reason other than their religious faith.

The situation has worsened over time and police cadets, government officials, vegetable vendors, labourers, and those attending religious processions and congregations have been killed – their shared attribute being their faith. At least 347 Hazaras have been killed in target killings and suicide and other attacks since 1999. Of the 328 Hazaras killed up until December 31 last year, as many as 105 had been killed in 2010 alone.

The killings have taken place amid the usual hate speech and wall chalkings, branding Shias as kafir (apostate) and wajib-ul-qatl (deserving to be killed). To representatives of the community, there is no mystery about the motives of the killers even if their identity is not quite as clear. “They want to instigate Shia-Sunni conflict in Balochistan,” say leaders of the Balochistan Shia Conference, requesting anonymity. The attempts to incite violence have not been successful so far, but certainly not for lack of trying. The list of violence against Quetta’s Hazaras is a long one:

* On June 8, 2003, 13 Hazara police cadets were shot and killed in Quetta while on their way to a training centre.
* On July 4, 2003, 51 Hazara Shias were killed when a suicide bomber attacked an Imambargah in Quetta.
* On March 2, 2004, 36 Hazaras were killed in an attack on an Ashura procession in Quetta.
* On April 16, 2010, six Hazaras were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a Quetta hospital where a large number of people had gathered after the body of a Hazara banker, who was shot dead minutes earlier, was brought to the hospital.
* On September 3, 2010, 61 Hazaras were killed in a suicide attack on an Al-Quds day procession in Quetta.
* On May 6, 2011, six Hazaras were killed in a rocket-and-gun attack targeting people playing cricket and football in a ground adjacent to a Hazara graveyard.
* On May 18, 2011, a vehicle bringing members of the Hazara community to Quetta was attacked, killing seven Hazaras.

An escalation of violence: Community leaders worry that if the killings do not stop, then they might not be able to prevent the Hazara youth from resorting to violence. Photo: AFP

Community leaders have met with Interior Minister Rehman Malik, President Asif Zardari, his predecessor Pervez Musharraf, Musharraf’s prime minister Shaukat Aziz, successive chiefs of the Balochistan police and Frontier Constabulary and implored them for help, but the killings have persisted.

In a meeting with President Zardari in Quetta in 2010, Interior Minister Rehman Malik had assured the Hazara leaders that with 99 CCTV cameras installed across Quetta there would be no further target killings and if there were, then the killers would be apprehended within 24 hours. Yet, when the son of a Hazara community leader who had attended the meeting with Malik and Zardari was killed in April 2010, the police informed the family that the CCTV camera installed at the site was out of order. The community leaders say that CCTV cameras have not played any part in apprehending the killers and are certain that if they were to press for CCTV footage to identify Abrar Hussain’s killers, they would be told that the cameras were not working at the time.

They maintain that the killings can be stopped, but only if the government takes effective measures to do so. “We had asked the Balochistan chief minister to convene a jirga of all ethnic and sectarian groups in Quetta to find a solution to the target killings because those involved find support and shelter among these communities. The chief minister promised to hold the jirga but that has not happened so far,” leaders of Balochistan Shia Conference say. “We do not know who the killers are. There are claims of responsibility by Lashkar-e-Jhangvi. But who knows who or what that is,” they add. “The communities should sit down together and find a way to end this madness. Constantly looking over one’s shoulder and viewing everyone with suspicion is no way to live.”

Kidnappings for ransom in Quetta in the past year-and-a half have added to the worries of the Hazaras. Hundreds of Hazaras have migrated abroad or to other parts of the country because of security concerns. According to leaders of the Hazara Democratic Party, a few years earlier hundreds of Hazara boys and girls studied at the university and colleges in Quetta but now the number has plummeted. The Hazara population in Quetta has always been concentrated in one or two localities but members of the community own houses and shops across Quetta. However, members of the community have increasingly felt compelled (out of fear for their own safety) in recent years to sell their houses and shift to areas with a concentrated Hazara population.

At least 15 men are in custody in Balochistan for their role in target killings and other attacks on Hazaras. Several of them have confessed to premeditated murder and boasted in open court that they would do it again if they had the chance. Some have been on death row for years but have not been executed, which has been interpreted as a sign of immunity by both the convicts and the victims’ families. The community leaders point to the escape of Usman Saifullah – who was held for involvement in several attacks on Hazaras – from the high-security ATF prison in Quetta as proof of some kind of inside help for the killers. A judicial commission examining the killing of Hazaras in various incidents has submitted its report, but the report has not been made public.

In all the conversations with Hazara community leaders, the thing that strikes one is the utter lack of bitterness in their tone or demeanour even as they desperately try to seek an end to the bloodshed, though they concede that it is extremely difficult to constantly try and keep the emotions of the youth in check as they bury one body after another. Empathy and condemnation of attacks by leaders of the Ahl-e-Sunnat school of thought has also played a part to help. “But it’s difficult to control emotions as families turn up to claim the bodies of victims of target killings day after day. We try and pacify them but at times they are so incensed that they call us names and abuse us.” The community leaders worry that if the killings do not stop then they might not be able to prevent the Hazara youth from resorting to violence.

arun · Post by **arun** » 30 Jul 2011 08:18

The shared Mohammadden religion is not enough to provide immunity to the Balochi / Baluchi minority from the predatory actions of the Punjabi dominated security forces of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan:

'Enforced disappearances' in Pakistan slammed

The cited Human Rights Watch report is here:

“We Can Torture, Kill,or Keep You for Years” : Enforced Disappearances by Pakistan Security Forces in Balochistan

arun · Post by **arun** » 31 Jul 2011 11:15

arun wrote:In the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, self claimed haven for the Mohammaddens of the Indian Sub-Continent neither the “Islamic Republic” nor the “Safe haven for Mohammaddens” tag is sufficient for Mohammaddens belonging to the minority Shia / Shiite to escape the depredations of their co-religionists.

Sunni Mohammadden Islamic Terrorist group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi kills 8 Shia’s in Quetta on Friday, the day of the Mohammadden sabbath :

8 Shias killed in gun, rocket attack in Quetta

Another Mohammadden “Sabbath” of Friday brings yet another bout of blood-letting caused by differing interpretations of Mohammaddenism.

The minority Shia / Shiite find out that the Pakistani claim of being a nation created as a safe haven for the Mohammaddens of the Indian Sub-Continent is a load of tripe:

Gunmen kill Shiite pilgrims in SW Pakistan: police

And for an encore the Shia / Shiite get a repeat dose of the same on the next day ie: Saturday:

11 more shot dead in Quetta sectarian attack

It is long past time for the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to stop concerning itself about the real or imagined persecution of Mohammaddens elsewhere in the world and rather devote its energy to stopping the persecution of Mohammaddens, albeit those following a minority interpretation of Mohammaddenism, resident within its borders.

arun · Post by **arun** » 31 Jul 2011 14:33

X Posted from the "Baluchistan : The Story of Another Pakistan Military Genocide" thread.

The Punjabi dominated security forces of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan persist with their pogrom targeting their fellow Mohammadden co-religionists, the Baloch:

Balochistan kidnappings: Two bodies found near Makran Coastal Highway

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 01 Aug 2011 08:17

Hindus struggle for marriage registration in Pakistan

Faced with a “double jeopardy” — vigilante attacks and a discriminatory legal framework — this is not the best of times for any minority community in Pakistan to even draw attention to itself, let alone make demands. But, fearing that silence would result in more loss of the already negligible space left for any kind of discourse on minority issues, the Hindu community is quietly working with legislators to put in place a mechanism for registration of their marriages without which they cannot get the Computerised National Identity Card (CNIC).

How little space there is left for such discourse was evident in May-end when Jinnah Institute — run by the former Federal Minister, Sherry Rehman who, herself, is a target of fundamentalists for having spoken up for minorities — launched its report: ‘A Question of Faith: A Report on the Status of Religious Minorities in Pakistan.'

The domestic media — described at that meeting as a “lynch mob” by Ali Dayan Hasan of Human Rights Watch — was kept out so that minority leaders could speak without fear. Even then attendance was thin. And hope in Jinnah's Pakistan waning.

So much so that one member of the Hindu community spoke out in exasperation at frequent references to how Pakistan had moved far away from the vision of founding father Mohammad Ali Jinnah and his August 11, 1947 speech. Referring to that speech of Jinnah's, in which he said: “You are free; free to go to your temples…You may belong to any religion or caste or creed — that has nothing to do with the business of the state,” the young man said: “Apart from these four lines, what direction did Jinnah give for the future of minorities in this country.” {Brilliant. This fact that the perfidious Jinnah had compromised on all his principles of 1920s by c. 1940 must be understood. There is no point in repeating his Hindu-Muslim ambassadorship of the 1920s or his Aug. 14, 1947 speech etc. In between, he launched a most violent attack on the Hindus, did everything to create hatred among the Muslims for Hindus and India, encouraged the fundamentalist Islamists, promised them to implement Shariah in the new State etc.}

No one had an answer and the minorities present in the room did not expect one. Though some members of the various minority communities have over the years migrated to other countries, this is not an option for a greater segment of the population, which is what keeps people like Ramesh Jaipal, chairman of the Scheduled Castes Rights Movement (SCRM), working at mobilising opinion to change the discriminatory legal framework.

Presently, the focus of the Hindu community is to get a Hindu Marriage Registration Bill passed so that some basic issues — particularly getting the CNIC — can be addressed. The community has been partly encouraged by the Supreme Court taking suo motu notice of the plight of a Hindu woman, who was denied a CNIC because she could not furnish a marriage registration certificate. The court intervened in 2009 and also directed the government to address this loophole.

Delays in getting a CNIC are commonplace, but the card is required for practically every single transaction and entitlement, including the right to vote. Even something as routine as a hotel booking for a married couple is an uphill task without a CNIC. They can be subjected to abuse or ridicule as their relationship is challenged.

Besides, there are cases of men abandoning their wives because just as the legality of the marriage can be contested by anyone, in the absence of a legal document, the spouse has no instrument with which to enforce the social contract either. And, in case of domestic violence, a woman cannot file a complaint against her husband in the absence of documentary evidence establishing the relationship.

While Muslims have the ‘nikahnama' and there is the ‘certificate of marriage' issued by parishes to Christians, other minority communities have no such document with legal sanctity. The Sikh grievance in this regard has been recently addressed with the government directing the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) — which issues the CNIC — to accept the ‘Annand Karraj' (marriage certificate issued by gurdwaras) to verify marriages.

But, the Hindus — the largest minority community in Pakistan — continue to struggle. They are widely recognised as the most disadvantaged of minority groups because they are “seen as an extension of the Indian state” and made to face the brunt of institutional hostility towards India. In fact, the Hindus of Sindh — which accounts for 94 per cent of the four million-strong community in Pakistan — recall how things took a turn for the worse for them after the Babri Masjid demolition. Sindh, which did not see Partition riots, took the flak following the Babri Masjid demolition.

While the Rahim Yar Khan-based SCRM has drafted and submitted a bill for marriage registration on the Indian model, similar efforts have been made in Sindh also. According to the president of the Hindu Panchayat (Karachi Division), Amarnath, the federal government had contacted organisations representing the Hindu community to come up with suggestions.

Hopeful of the issue being resolved by year-end, Mr. Amarnath said organisations like his have been issuing marriage certificates to Hindu couples as a stop-gap measure. But, he adds, because such certificates have no government backing, their acceptance is contingent upon the whims of the authorities.

Prem · Post by **Prem** » 05 Aug 2011 09:53

http://www.dawn.com/2011/08/03/cue-the- ... ities.html
Cue the curtain on Pakistani minorities

We try (and fail) to remain on the correct side of the fence at least where Christians are concerned. Every media outlet carries greeting messages on their religious celebrations; politicians make appropriate statements of solidarity. In their subconscious it buys them enough room to ignore them for the remaining year. But the rest of the minorities including Hindus and Ahmadis are quite easily ignored — that is, when we are not killing them, imprisoning them under false allegations of blasphemy to serve personal vendetta, or disparaging them with mindless religious slurs.
Think I’m painting the picture too dark? Here is the reality check. Last month the Sikhs of Lahore were barred from holding an annual ceremony at the Gurdwara Shaheed Bhai Taru Singh to commemorate the martyrdom of their saint Taru Singh. The reason was that Shab-e-Barat was falling two nights “after” the Sikh ceremony was supposed to be held and the Gurdwara technically fell under the “courtyard” of Badshahi mosque. The officials concerned were convinced by some local men, who according to some media reports belonged to Jamat-ud-Dawa, and the Sikhs were asked to postpone their ceremony. Can anyone imagine Muslims in a non-Muslim country being asked to delay Eid Milad un Nabi?
Unfortunately this was only one of the numerous incidents which either go unreported or are so under reported that the purpose of “informing” the public is lost. How many of us know that a Hindu MLA who resigned from Sindh’s provincial assembly and migrated to India because he felt too insecure here? Who cares about the 131 Ahmadis who flew to Thailand in the hope to appeal to UNHCR in Bangkok for asylum and ended up spending months in detention under horrific conditions? Who remembers Qamar David, a convict of blasphemy, who suddenly died of a “heart attack” in a prison?

This constant paranoia of becoming infidels, of their nikahs (marriage certificates) getting void, owing to the righteous guardians of the “Islamic fort” has crippled their intelligence. It has deprived them of the ability for any kind of productive discourse. The rigid definition of “virtue” with an all-or-nothing approach has narrowed down the concept of “good” follower of faith to a suffocating extent. This is the reason common people shrugged off Salman Taseer’s assassination with the usual justification clause: “What happened was wrong but Taseer himself was a <insert vice of choice> man.” It is but one example of how unforgiving and intolerant we really are.

arun · Post by **arun** » 06 Aug 2011 22:01

arun wrote:X Posted from the "Baluchistan : The Story of Another Pakistan Military Genocide" thread.

The Punjabi dominated security forces of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan persist with their pogrom targeting their fellow Mohammadden co-religionists, the Baloch:

Balochistan kidnappings: Two bodies found near Makran Coastal Highway

X Posted from the "Baluchistan : The Story of Another Pakistan Military Genocide" thread.

Amnesty International joins Human Rights Watch (HRW) in the condemnation of the genocidal acts of the Punjabi dominated security forces of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan in Balochistan:

Document - Pakistan: Detained Baloch men risk death

anupmisra · Post by **anupmisra** » 07 Aug 2011 07:49

No, Pakistan
A Paki Christian (Anthony Permal) complains....

A great deal has been written about minorities by many people both within and outside Pakistan. It is unfortunate that we are now a buzzword in the news and in 'chai-shop' conversations for infamy and not grace.

In 1994, I read an article in Dawn newspaper about the murder of a Christian Pakistani. The accompanying photograph had the following caption, which I quote verbatim, as I have never been able to get these words out of my mind: 'the victim was a sweeper (Christian)'. Complete with parenthesis.

Today, similar to that morning 17 years ago, I still find it insulting that the only recognizable stereotype of the Christian minority being propagated by media both in and out of Pakistan is of the Punjabi-speaking, downtrodden, poor sweeper or 'jamaadar'.

In asking our opinions on the discrimination we face, how many reporters have spoken to the English, Sindhi and Konkani speaking Christians of Pakistan?

I have seen Christian doctors in hospitals being refused by patients because of the doctor's faith. I have seen a passport officer throw Christians' and even Ahmadis' passports across the floor. I have witnessed teachers being overlooked for promotions and told it was due to performance, and later discovering the preference of the principal for another propagator of 'the true faith'. I have witnessed employees in one of Pakistan's leading establishments in the 90s (it is thankfully defunct today) who - despite being MBA, BBA, M.Com and MSc holders - refused to share a table with a fellow Christian during lunch. I was that Christian employee. In fact, I have seen discrimination of the highest degree in our very own bastion of hospitality to foreigners: Jinnah Terminal. I was returning from Dubai to be with my father for Christmas, and a fellow passenger who is also a Christian was carrying a bottle of Chivas Regal for his father, whose 70th birthday was that weekend. The customs official who happened to stop the passenger did not take the bottle away because it was illegal to bring into Pakistan. Instead, his words were: 'le ja bottle ja kar andar rakh de, yeh Issai log Pakistan mai bas yehi kaam karte hain, sharab pee kar tamasha kharra karna in ki aadat hai.' In translation: 'take this bottle away and keep it in the cupboard, this is the only thing Christians in Pakistan know to do, drinking alcohol and making a scene everywhere is their habit.'

No, Pakistan. The discrimination affects you. And it affects me, a Christian Pakistani whose identity ends there.

Konkani-speaking pa'astani?

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 12 Aug 2011 06:21

A hard-hitting editorial in Daily Times

Whither Jinnah’s Pakistan?

While the world believes that the greatest achievement of Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah was the creation of a separate and sovereign state for the Muslims of the subcontinent, some commentators believe that his biggest failure was his inability to inculcate a secular spirit within the new nation.

In his first address to the Constituent Assembly on August 11, 1947, {This speech has been beaten to death. After 1930, that was the only occasion when Jinnah spoke in a secular tone. All his actions were thoroughly communal and violent otherwise. A single shower does not a monsoon make. By joining hands with the rabid, fundamentalist ulema of Deoband and Ahl-e-Hadith, by promising shariah in the new land and by resorting to religion-based violence all over the place from NWFP to the Gangetic belt to Bengal, he had already defined the statecraft that his beloved new State would follow. To repeatedly quote these two sentences alone that he spoke after the floods had gone well over the heads is purely disingenuous. But, one can understand why this is repeatedly being quoted.} he shared his vision of Pakistan as a secular state where everyone irrespective of religion, caste or creed would enjoy freedom, equality and the rule of law. However, his principles could never be materialised. Ignoring the founding father’s framework, his successors passed the 1949 Objectives Resolution and the Quaid’s vision died there and then. Jinnah’s ideal asserting the separation of religion from citizenship and the state has been violated time and again to appease the religious groups in the country.

Yes, we have betrayed our Quaid’s wishes and messages, which is a severe injustice to his memory. The domination of theocracy, extremism and intolerance has infected us with the cancer of religious fanaticism. Jinnah’s Pakistan has turned into a land where minorities and even moderate Muslims are being treated as pariahs.

It is deplorable that despite having a sizeable portion of religious and sectarian minorities who are inhabitants of the subcontinent for many centuries, the constitution of Pakistan defines its population on the basis of faith. {Is there any contradiction after having used religion as the basis for division and creation of a new state ?} A non-Muslim cannot hold the highest offices. The state, which calls itself an ‘Islamic Republic’, has draconian anti-blasphemy laws, repeatedly being used against the minorities and dissidents. Christians, Hindus, Sikhs are treated as second-class citizens and face discrimination in all spheres of life while the Ahmedis have been declared non-Muslims by the religious majority.

There are numerous instances of attacks on minorities’ worship places and their homes by Muslim mobs often instigated by mullahs. The attack on a Christian colony, Gojra in 2009 is quite fresh in the memory. The helpless Christian families had to withdraw the cases against 150 perpetrators who burnt their houses and killed their loved ones. Non-Muslim women are often forced to marry Muslim men and convert to Islam as it is considered an immense religious benefit. Religious intolerance has grown to the extent that the police refuse to register the complaints of the victimised minorities. Lawyers fearing a backlash by mullahs hesitate in taking up such cases and judges are threatened to give unfair judgements. Even those Muslims who stand by the victims are threatened with severe consequences and sometimes even murdered in broad daylight. Salmaan Taseer’s brutal murder and the garlanding of his murderer say it all about religious extremism, deep-rooted prejudice against non-Muslims and the criminal silence of the government. What will become of a society like ours where difference of faith decides life and death? Today’s Pakistan is in total negation of Jinnah’s vision.

BijuShet · Post by **BijuShet** » 24 Aug 2011 21:26

X-post from TSP Dhaga
From The News(posting in full). TSP landlords commits tyranny against his Hindu Kafir employee.

Peasant illegally confined by landlord

Updated 16 minutes ago
HYDERABAD: A woman Shrimati Meeran has accused a landlord Muhammad khan of village Adam Khan Ahmadani, Taluka Jhudo, district Mirpur Khas of illegally confining her husband since July 27, 2011.

Addressing a press conference along with her lawyer Abdul Razak Dasti at local press club, Meeran said her husband Aandu went to the landlord and asked for payment of Rs.50, 000/-, the 3-year wages for working at his lands, but he never returned.

When Meeran herself went in search of husband, the landlord threw her out of village after severe beating by his men. Meeran, who has lodged petition in Sindh High Court on August 15 last for justice, appealed President, Prime Minister and Chief Minister for recovery of her husband as she feared landlord might kill him. (PPI)

Dipanker · Post by **Dipanker** » 25 Aug 2011 07:13

Teen Hindu escapes 2-year forced sex work nightmare

KARACHI: Kidnapped and forced into sex work at the age of 12 years, N, a Hindu girl, thought it was a nightmare that would never end.
Duped by a man named Younus who was welcomed into the family home in Teen Hatti as an old friend, N and her family never suspected that a man who showered attention and presents on them would do such a thing. N claims that he would drop by their house quite often and one day when she was alone he showed up with his wife and lured her to their house in Korangi.

arun · Post by **arun** » 26 Aug 2011 21:39

Oppression of Mohammaddens of the Shia sect by their Co-Religionists of the Sunni sect in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, self claimed safe haven for the Mohammaddens of the Indian Sub-Continent:

For Shia Hazaras, it’s Funeral After Funeral

arun · Post by **arun** » 28 Aug 2011 11:24

Dr. Haresh Chopra, one of the few Dhimmi’s permitted by the Momin of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to be a legislative representative, on the persecution of Hindu’s and Sikh’s in that country by way of abductions, forced conversions to Mohammaddenism and forced sale of Hindu and Sikh properties to Mohammaddens at a pittance:

Abduction of Hindus, Sikhs have become a business in Pak: PML MP

Yudhvir Rana | Aug 28, 2011, 03.07AM IST ………………………

"Being a soft target, many Hindus and Sikhs are abducted from the province for ransom, but cases of forced conversion are more in Sindh province. Those who can't bear their persecution anymore often think of migrating to India as they are not financially sound enough to shift to European countries."

"Being a minority MP, I have always been raising issues in the parliament and demanding protection for minorities, but that's all I can do,".......................

arun · Post by **arun** » 28 Aug 2011 18:08

The ethnic cleansing of Hindu’s in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan continues:

37 more disgruntled Hindus leave country for good

Kashi · Post by **Kashi** » 29 Aug 2011 18:13

The non-Muslims of Pakistan

In compliance with the 18th Amendment, President Asif Ali Zardari recently signed an amendment in the Senate (Election) Rules 1975 to reserve four seats for non-Muslims in Pakistan’s Upper House. This means that each province will send an additional member to the Senate which consists 100 members including 17 seats reserved for women and 17 seats reserved for technocrats and ulema. The Senate will have reserved seats for non-Muslims for the first time. Although the Senate represented the provinces, it was presumed earlier that they did not need to pay special attention to getting their non-Muslim minorities an airing there despite their disadvantaged position.

On the other hand, the National Assembly was sensitive to the position of the largely backward religious minorities. It had a total of 342 seats, including 60 seats reserved for women and 10 seats reserved for non-Muslims. We are at a loss to understand the thinking behind this difference in envisaging representation in the two houses of parliament but welcome the correction that the 18th Amendment has brought about. The provincial assemblies already have non-Muslim seats in proportion to the numbers in the constituencies, in addition to those elected on the basis of still controversial joint electorates.

A lacuna has been addressed by all the political parties who voted for the 18th Amendment. It is just as well that the ruling PPP did not have a two-thirds majority to pass the amendment; now the change denotes a political consensus otherwise in short supply in the country. This is not to say that problems faced by the non-Muslim minorities are well on the way to being resolved. The controversial and much-misused blasphemy laws, are still on the statute book and regularly used to victimise them individually or collectively. Finally it is a measure of how incapable our political parties are of providing leadership on crucial issues and will go along with the base instincts of society to retain themselves in popular focus.

Pakistan has a very small non-Muslim population. By normal accounts, it should have no ‘minority problems’ unlike Bangladesh which was declared a secular-socialist state in 1971 but was not able to handle its large Hindu minority amounting to almost 25 per cent in 1947. Because of the maltreatment meted out to the Hindus, their population is down to 11 per cent in today’s Bangladesh. Deprived of land through legislation and maltreatment, the Hindus have steadily fled into India over the years. Ironically, Muslim Bangladeshis, too, have fled to India in large numbers.

The germ of the two-nation doctrine is embedded in the mind of the Muslim majority community and it is misapplied to an already minuscule non-Muslim population in Pakistan. Its original application was related to the ‘imagined’ nations in India. The Congress claimed there was one nation in India and the Muslim League claimed there were two. After Partition, Pakistan should have moved to a single identity: whoever is a citizen of Pakistan belongs to the nation of Pakistan. But this universally applied concept was soon scuttled when the Muslim League thought of separating the non-Muslims through separate electorates.

General Zia actually separated the non-Muslims from the rest of the nation through separate electorates. Behind the change in the Eighth Amendment to the 1973 Constitution was the idea of ‘zimmi-hood’ which he and his partners in power had close to their heart although many thought it was violation of the spirit of Mithaq-e-Madina envisaging one nation. He, however, stopped short of ‘jazia’ (special protection tax) which is a historical corollary to ‘zimmi-hood’ — a kind of ‘payment from minorities’ received by some Muslim kings in India. There is helplessness in the face of the cruelties inflicted on the non-Muslims by the blasphemy law. When late Governor Punjab Salmaan Taseer publicly condemned the law, he was killed by his own bodyguard. After his death no one would lead his funeral prayer, and the man who finally did has run away to the UK seeking asylum from those who threaten him with death. And the Christian woman whom Governor Taseer died defending is still rotting in jail under a seemingly trumped-up charge of blasphemy. In Punjab, the Christian minority wants its support to the Pakistan Movement mentioned in the textbooks while religious fanatics torch their houses.

arun · Post by **arun** » 31 Aug 2011 14:06

X Posted.

Demonstration of the IED Mubarak variant of the IEDology of Pakistan on the Mohammadden holy day of EID ul Fitr targets members of the minority Shia Mohammadden sect in Quetta:

10 killed, 25 injured in suicide blast in Pakistan

arun · Post by **arun** » 01 Sep 2011 17:35

X Posted from the TSP thread.

No succour for adherents of the Shia sect of Mohammaddenism in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan which was self-claimed to have been created as a safe haven for the Mohammaddens of the Indian Sub-Continent.

For the second day in succession Shia’s at the receiving end of the predatory interest of their co-religionists:

7 die in firing incident in Lower Kurram Agency: Officials

arun · Post by **arun** » 06 Sep 2011 06:21

X Posted from the TSP thread.

Dipanker wrote:The pursuit of purification continues in the Pureland ...

Ahmedi shot dead in Faisalabad

LAHORE: An Ahmedi citizen, Naseem Ahmed, was assassinated by unidentified assailants in Faisalabad after terrorists distributed pamphlets in the city a few weeks ago urging citizens to kill Ahmedis. According to details, 55-year-old Naseem was sleeping in his house on Saturday when, at around 1:15am, four men entered his house, opened fire on him and escaped from the crime scene. A news report, published in Daily Times on June 14, had informed about plans of execution of terrorist activities against Ahmedis in the region. The report had further mentioned that the terrorists were collaborating with other wings and laying out a proper plan of Ahmedis’ target killings and had started distributing hate material like pamphlets and flyers in this regard. The terrorists had also released a list of prominent Ahmedi businessmen and other personalities living in Faisalabad and surrounding areas by mentioning their names and addresses, saying that the Ahmedi citizens of the country were involved in “conspiracies against Islam and Pakistan”.