Lahore : March 09, 2009. (Margaret Piara reports for PCP) : “I got married and I had 3 daughters only and no son. For that reason my mother-in-law said that I am not good for them”. These were the words of Mrs. Jamila Nasir during the program organized by Milap Organization on the 8th March at St. J

LAHORE March 9, 2009: (PCP) At least 141 people committed suicide in the country in one month ending February 25 according to statistics available with the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) and published in its monthly journal.
Of those committing suicide between 26th January and 25th Febr

Lucknow: March 6, 2009. (PCP) The democratic process may finally find expression politically if the newly constituted forum of social activists taking up people’s causes has its way.
Called the People’s Politics Front (Lok Rajniti Manch), it held its first national convention at Lucknow at the Gang

WASHINGTON, D.C: March 5, 2009. International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that Islamic extremists in northern Nigeria gunned down Christians and set fire to their homes and churches during a three-day rampage in which 11 people were killed and 3500 were displaced.
According to Nigerian new

LAHORE: March 5, 2009. (PCP) The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has condemned a bombing at the mausoleum of renowned poet Rehman Baba on the outskirts of Peshawar.
In a statement issued on Thursday, HRCP said: “The bombing at the mausoleum cannot be condemned strongly enough. Rehman Bab

LARKANA: March 5, 2009. (Nazir Siyal reports for PCP) All Pakistan Organization of Small Traders and Cottage Industries Sindh (APOSTCI) Provincial president Sindh Mashooq Ali Jatoi has said that the PML-N call for the strike will not be successful all over Sindh and they must retract their call of s

Gujranwala, Pakistan: March 3, 2009. (SLMP reports for PCP) The Christian Mass services were in progressing with dedication of worshipers in a Presbyterian Church in remote town of Aroop in Gujranwala district of Punjab province of Pakistan when a Muslim mob attacked on Church with firearms. It wa

USA: March 3, 2009. Shelia Augustine, mother of Rev. Canon Dr. Patrick P Augustine, passed away on February 18, 2009, to rest with almighty Lord Jesus for ever, leaving behind grieved family members in USA and Pakistan. The celebration is her memory were venue at La Cross led by Rev. Dr. Augustine.

London: March 3, 2009. Mr. Nasir Saeed, Coordinator of CLAAS UK issued her statement on elections of Senate of Pakistan. He said that few weeks ago the Chief Election Commissioner of Pakistan the Right Honorable Justice Qazi Muhammad Farooq announced the schedule of the elections for the Upper House

Lahore: March 2, 2009. (SLMP report) Two Christians named Wallayat Masih son of Saraina Masih alias Sala resident of village Maloki District Kasur and Mushtaq Masih son of Sooba Masih resident of Kareem Park Bank Stop Lahore have been charged under blasphemy law vide case registered vide First Infor

Karachi: March 2, 2009. Dr. Nazir S Bhatti, Chief of Pakistan Christian Congress PCC expressed reservations of Christian on decision of PPP government to introduce Nazam-e-Idal or Kazi Courts under Islamic Sharia law in Malakand Division and Swat Valley. In a telephonic address to members of Central

Lahore, March 2: The manner in which the federal government has decided to launch mobile courts will lead to disruption of judicial order and widespread resentment, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has said.
A press statement issued by HRCP on Monday said: “Both the timing and manner

Much has been written about Islamic family laws and Muslim women’s status and rights by Western or secular critics and human rights activists, on the one hand, and by traditionalist ulema, on the other. The former are generally bitterly anti-Islamic, and the latter often fiercely patriarchal, and th

WASHINGTON, D.C. February 26, 2009. International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that Egyptian authorities recently sentenced six Christian brothers to three years in prison for opening their café during the Muslim fasting season of Ramadan last September.
Egyptian authorities raided the fami

LARKANA: February 27, 2009. (report by Nazir Siyal) An Indonesian Consul General Mustakim visited mausoleum of the martyrs of Bhutto's family at Garhi Khuda Bux Bhutto some 30 km here.
Consul General visited the grave of assassinated PPP Chairperson Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, Ex-premier Zu