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Gojra: Shagufta Kausar accused of blasphemy case seeks bail on 1st August in Additional Session Judge in Gojra. World Vision In Progress – WVIP filed the bail application for the Shagufta today in the court of the Additional Session Judge. Police sources told that due to unavoidable reasons, they couldn’t investigate the case accordingly so the official requested the court to hear the matter on August 1, 2013. Family of the accused couple requested WVIP to provide legal assistance to Shagufta and Shafaqat accused of a blasphemy case. WVIP management has assigned this duty to its legal team consist of…

Last night we heard of a despicable act of debauchery that has left Christians in Pakistan utterly shocked . It has been alleged that Shazia Masih an 11 year old Christian Girl from Lahore, Pakistan – was killed by a prominent Muslim after a period of sexual slavery. Wealthy lawyer Mohammed Naeem and his son have been accused of the rape and torture of the innocent girl who was working as a cleaner in his home. The young girl had not even reached physical maturity and in her underdeveloped stage must have been terrified by the ordeal which spanned a…

http://jazba.wordpress.com/2009/12/24/imam-bargah-under-attack-two-killed-3-injured-in-a-suicide-attack-on-imam-bargah-in-rawalpindi/ A young girl along with the attacker have been killed and a police constable seriously injured in a suicide attack outside the Imambargah (mosque of Shi’ite Muslims) named Kasre-e-Sakeena in Shahzad town area of Shakriyal alongside Expressway. Private TV Channel reported that the blast occurred when the Majlis was underway. Around 300 people were attending the religious gathering as the blast occurred.DIG Islamabad Bin Yameen while talking to media said that the incident occurred at about 10:18 pm when a suicide bomber tried to enter Imambargah. As the head constable Itifaq tried to stop the suicide bomber, he blew himself up. He told that suicide bomber failed to detonate himself completely. He said that…

It is with dismay and disdain that I hear of the persecution of our Shi’ite brothers in Pakistan – a small Muslim minority. The Shia community of Karachi has been ravaged by 3 separate bomb attacks, in a spate of sectarian violence covering just 3 days from the 26th – 28th December. The Ashoura festival and Muharram celebrations, for Shia Muslims have been tarnished by the recent terrorist activity. The intensity of the situation culminated in a Shia led riot that has decimated the local commercial precinct. Shamefully it would seem that the Pakistan Government has tried to delay or…

Many of you will be unaware that Pakistan once had a thriving Jewish Community. In particular the City of Karachi boasted a number of Synagogues and at least a 3000 strong fellowship. A former synagogue and graveyard still exist in Karachi for which attempts are being made to preserve them as part of the heritage of Pakistan. There remains one openly Jewish person named Fischel Benkhalid and around 900 Jews who present themselves on the National Database and Registration Authority’s census database.  However, they choose to indicate their faith as Muslim on their ID documents to thwart persecution. During the…

From The Sunday Times March 15, 2009 My Imam father came after me with an axe Hannah Shah had been raped by her father and faced a forced marriage. She fled, became a Christian and now fears for her life We are all too familiar with the persecution of Christians in countries such as Pakistan and Afghanistan. Yet sitting in front of me is a British woman whose life has been threatened in this country solely because she is a Christian. Indeed, so real is the threat that the book she has written about her experiences has had to…