Pakistan fashion week defies Taliban with non-Islamic dress
(Pakistan) Karachi: Pakistan fashion week defies Taliban with non-Islamic dress Daily Telegraph reports: Sonya Battla, the first designer to show, presented a collection that she…
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Pakistan: Human rights group hails new law for Pakistani women
Pakistan: Human rights group hails new law for Pakistani women
Pakistan: Islamic Political Parties Reject Plans to Amend Blasphemy Law
Pakistan Daily Times: Religious parties reject plans to amend blasphemy law — “LAHORE: Rejecting any changes to the Namoos-e-Risalat Act — or the blasphemy law…
Canada: ‘Landmark case’ of Pakistani woman facing honor killing — Roohi Tabassum
Toronto Sun reports: A Brampton woman who claims she’ll be a victim of an honour killing if deported to Pakistan will open the door for…
World Gender Gap Worst in Islamic Nations — Survey Shows Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Yemen, Egypt, Turkey at Bottom of List
The 2009 report by the World Economic Forum has listed predominantly Islamic nations in the bottom of their 2009 annual Global Gender Gap (GGG) Index. …
Pakistan: Bombing in Peshawar Targets Women, Children
— Bloodbath in Peshawar: at least 105 killed, 200 injured in Meena Bazaar car bombing — “19 women, 11 children among dead, 25 in critical…
U.S. State Dept Religious Freedom Report Critical of OIC Efforts to Restrict Freedom
The U.S. State Department’s International Religious Freedom Report 2009 challenged the extremist efforts of the OIC in seeking to defy freedom of conscience and freedom…
Pakistani Christians demand repeal of blasphemy law in Conference by PCC
Pakistani Christians demand repeal of blasphemy law in Conference by PCC. — Asia News: “Pakistan, Christians and Muslim leaders: repeal blasphemy law” — Asia News:…
Pakistan Police Torture Christians Arrested in Mob Attack
Pakistan Police Torture Christians Arrested in Attack — COMPASS Direct News reports: “Two Christians in Gojra, Pakistan who allegedly fired warning shots as an Islamist…
U.S. Religious Freedom Commission Testimony that U.N. “Religious Defamation” Resolutions Leading to “Global Blasphemy Law”
U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) Testimony of Leonard A. Leo Before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission (TLHRC) on Implications of the Promotion…