Category Archives: Pakistan
No home for the ‘impure’ in Pakistan
Pakistan today:
LAHORE – The Lahore police just stood by on Saturday as violent mobs indiscriminately burned down at least 200 houses and 80 shops at a Christian inhabited locality in Punjab’s provincial capital after a Christian youth was accused of blasphemy the other day.
The mobs arrived at the Joseph Colony area in Badami Bagh police precincts around 10am in the morning and without wasting much time, set fire to almost all the houses in the locality. The small Christian community of the area had already been forced to flee the night before when the story of the alleged blasphemy charge surfaced.
Rescue Christians Exclusive: Original Photos / on-the-ground report about Mob Attacks in Pakistan
Walid Shoebat:
Note: All but one of the photos (the one at the very bottom) in this post were provided by our Rescue Christians contact in Pakistan.
After Sawan Masih was arrested and charged with blasphemy in Pakistan, an angry Muslim mob – estimated to be about 3000 strong – descended on the Christian area of Joseph Colony (near LaHore) and burned down hundreds of buildings, the majority of which were Christian homes. According to reports, police stood down and allowed the rioting to take place as Masih was detained.
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Shiia mosque well and thoroughly destroyed by Sunni Muslims in Pakistan
Funny how burning a single koran by one US preacher can cause a riot that kills 20 people and defacto end the 1st amendment protection that makes the US great. But hundreds of Korans can go up in smoke, (not to mention dozens of Muslims) when it is done by Muslims and no-problemo.
BLOW-TARD STRIKES SHIITE MOSQUE IN SUNNI PAKISTAN, 45 MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD
Islam keeping it real.
The Sunnis and Shiites really do hate each other, perhaps it’s worse than their hatred of the infidel, and it’s all due to the disagreement surrounding the true successor of the desert warlord Mohamed.
- Suicide blast at Shiite mosque kills scores in Pakistan More here.
No-one has yet claimed responsibility but recent attacks against Shias in the south-western city of Quetta have been claimed by the sectarian Sunni terrorist group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.
Standing amid the rubble, Fatima, a resident, told The Express Tribune newspaper: “Our only sin, our only fault, seems to be that we belong to a different sect.”
Senior politicians united in condemnation.
UPDATE: Magic Martin finds the following video of Shiites marching through London this month.
Five women buried alive in Pakistan for wanting to pick their own mates
And members of parliament defended the killers.
H/T Richard
Sad that they didn’t mention Islam at all. So I will.
This was an Islamic inspired event. There is no way it was not.
Suicide bomber destroys 2 mosques with one suicide.
‘Admitting you are a secularist can get you killed in Pakistan’
H/T Arun
Pakistan Trib:
Published: January 28, 2013
PHOTO: FILE
KARACHI: Urdu linguists have distorted the meaning of the word “secular,” and falsely translated it as la-deen (non-religious). The use of the word is so dangerous now that even mainstream leftist political parties in the country are afraid of talking about it.
Civil society representatives highlighted these points as they participated in a seminar titled ‘Democracy and secularism in Pakistan: Its need and importance’, at the Arts Council on Saturday. The event was organised by the Forum for Secular Pakistan. The participants urged political leaders to push for a secular state, “as there can be no democracy in the country without secularism”.
Prof. Dr Jaffar Ahmed, the chairperson of the Pakistan Study Centre, criticised Urdu linguists for “distorting” the meaning of ‘secular’ in earlier dictionaries. The word was originally used to refer to the small pieces of land that common people used to hold in the days when the Catholic Church would own most of the land. The word came to symbolise scientific inventions and progressive thought in the 19th century, he said.
“If someone says that he is secular, people would kill him on the spot.”
‘Canadian’ Jailed for terrorism 14 years
H/T EDL Buck
Appeal for help in locating Aamir Taj
Just an off-topic PSA from British railway police:
Detectives are appealing for information on the whereabouts of 31-year-old Aamir Taj, who resides in the Bradford area but could be anywhere in the country. He also has links to Pakistan.
Detective Constable Gary Heseltine said, “We are keen to trace Aamir Taj and speak to him in connection with two incidents of sexual assault that took place on trains on the 28 and 30 September 2012. We believe he may have information that could help our enquiries.”
Aamir Taj is Asian, of proportionate build with black, close cut hair.
If you have any information on his current whereabouts please call 0800 40 50 40, quoting background log B6/NEA of 11/01/2012. Information can also be passed to the independent charity Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555
Pakistani soldiers crossed border, killed Indian soldiers.
Pakistan troops breach LoC, brutally kill 2 Indian soldiers, chop off heads, carry one away
H/T Magic Martin and Taffy in Canada
Indian Express:
In a gruesome attack, Pakistani troops today crossed into Indian territory and ambushed an Army patrol party killing two soldiers whose heads were reportedly then chopped off.
The attack took place along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district when Pakistanis came about 100 metres into Indian territory and assaulted the patrol party.
Besides killing two Lance Naiks, Hemraj and Sudhakar Singh, they also injured two other soldiers.
During the brutal assault on the patrol party, the Pakistanis are said to have chopped off their heads, one of which they carried with them, informed sources said.
However, the Army, while confirming the killing of Indian soldiers, did not comment on reports that they had been beheaded.
According to the sources, the Border Action Team (BAT) of Pakistani Army entered the Indian territory at Krishna Ghati area of Poonch district and carried out the strikes.
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Seven teachers shot dead in Swabi (Pakistan)
H/T Shabnam
More here at the Daily Mail also
Pak-Tribune
By Web Desk
Published: January 1, 2013
Gunmen targeted teachers, including six women and a man, working at an NGO-operated school.
SWABI: Seven teachers, six women and a man, working at an NGO-operated school were shot dead on Tuesday in Swabi, Express News reported.
The incident took place in Sher Afzal Banda area in Tehsil Chota Lahore, when unidentified gunmen targeted the teachers who had just exited the school building.
Earlier in December 2012, the office of an NGO in Muhallah Gulbahar in Swabi was destroyed when a bomb exploded near its building.
In recent months, a number of government and NGO offices as well as CD shops have been targeted by assailants in the relatively peaceful district. So far, police have been unable to arrest any culprit behind these incidents.
Paintings outrage Islamic hard-liners in Pakistan
National Post also covers this
H/T Magic Martin
AP:
By ASIF SHAHZAD
The Associated Press
LAHORE, Pakistan —
Pakistan‘s leading arts college has pushed boundaries before in this conservative nation. But when a series of paintings depicting Muslim clerics in scenes with strong homosexual overtones sparked an uproar and threats of violence by Islamic extremists, it was too much.
Officials at the National College of Arts in the eastern city of Lahore shut down its academic journal, which published the paintings, pulled all its issues out of bookstores and dissolved its editorial board. Still, a court is currently considering whether the paintings’ artist, the journal’s board and the school’s head can be charged with blasphemy.
The college’s decision to cave to Islamist pressure underscores how space for progressive thought is shrinking in Pakistan as hardline interpretations of Islam gain ground. It was also a marked change for an institution that has long been one of the leading defenders of liberal views in the country.
Pakistan is an overwhelmingly Muslim nation, and the majority of its citizens have long been fairly conservative. But what has grown more pronounced in recent years is the power of religious hardliners to enforce their views on members of the population who disagree, often with the threat of violence.
The actual paintings:
From accusation straight to execution. Man accused of burning a koran murdered in his jail cell
H/T EDL Buck:
The Examiner:
Mob storms jail: Burns man alive over accusation of burned Qur’an
Pakistan: Home to Rage Boy, vigilantes and nuclear warheads.
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WikiMedia Commons
From accusation straight to execution…
Suspected of burning a copy of the Islamic Qur’an, an unidentified man was forcibly removed from his jail cell by vigilantes, then burned alive by the same mob in the village of Seeta in Pakistan‘s southern Sindh province as reported by The Times of India on 22 Dec, 2012.
Described only as “a traveller,” the man spent the night in the local mosque according to the town’s spiritual leader, Imam Maulvi Memon