EDITORIALS - 2002
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Christian youth to set up security system of churches in Pakistan.

The political parties have been also experiencing this system to organize youth to take security responsibilities of their meetings and public gatherings. The religious community of Muslim Shia Sect also followed the same pattern of security when their mosques were attacked in Pakistan. The main the

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Christian's representation in Senate of Pakistan urged.

According to legislation point of view, the Senate of Pakistan was never taken very seriously by the other minority leaders of Pakistan because Senate of Pakistan was famous to approve all the bills forwarded to this house after legislation by the National Assembly of Pakistan. It was also viewed t

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WCC report of pastoral team visit to Pakistan is unbalanced and substandard.

Many commissions, sub commissions and human right organizations use such reports for the ready reference. Therefore, The reports of WCC are not such reports that it may be read and just forgotten like ordinary daily routine items when this establishment of churches becomes more forceful with heavy a

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Islamic laws imposed in NWFP and Balouchistan provinces.

The Ml-Q is generally know as the B Team of the military ruler Parvez Mushraf with not any particular agenda of Islamic Laws in their party or election manifesto but still this collation and bargain of lead to MMA is not strange in political circle of Pakistan. The military rulers only wish to prolo

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George Felix on Quaid E Azam and Nasir Saeed on Faith Under Fire.

The nations unite their new generations on brave role of their elders in the history. The social and cultural heritage of any nation is being used as weapon to motivate to launch united movements to achieve rights in society and preserve their independence. The Christian nation in Pakistan do not fi

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Killers of Aslam Martin and other six Christian employees of Justice and Peace are still at large.

On Karachi massacre the Christian leaders also demanded the registration of murder charges against the police officials present in the area of the site of the sad incident on negligence to arrest the Muslim terrorists and resignation of Interior minister of Pakistan.

The Christians have witnessed

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Why Christians campaigners of joint elections in higher courts against the elections amendments now?

The demand of joint elections was usually made from time to time by the Bishop conference of Pakistan and the church based NGOs on intimation and directives of the Pakistan Peoples Party and government agencies because the government never appreciated the voice of christens own elected representativ

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Jihadi Groups announce formation of Islamic Army in Pakistan.

These groups have not taken responsibility of the bomb attacks against police only but in this announcement they have claimed that now all the Jihadi groups are unite in Pakistan and they have formed the Islamic Army to teach lessons to the police officials involved in the investigations against the

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Christians concern over MMA vows to introduce Shariat laws in Pakistan.

The terror harboring government in Afghanistan led by Taliban was infect the production of these religious parties with the help of ISI wing of armed forces of Pakistan and they were looking forward to topple the military government of Pakistan in the Taliban style invasion in Pakistan in near futur

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Now Christians beg for role in future government.

We have no objection on the system of elections for minorities in Pakistan. If it is joint elections or separate elections system for them. Our concern is the leadership of Christians who enter in the dialogues with the government on the political issues. If our leadership is able and committed to t

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Bishops shall regain political control on Christian after 17 years in Pakistan.

Before separate electorate the Bishops have been visiting the governors and president to discuss the social and political problems of Christians and only the relatives and friends of the clergy in Pakistan were the beneficiary of the government privileges for the general Christians and the deserving

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Aslam Martin, a great Comrade and leader, Martyred by Terrorist to end Christian peaceful struggle in Pakistan.

During his services, I found him living in Christian colonies for months to establish contacts with the local Christian youth and lecture them on Christian issues on his awareness campaigns. It was his great service for Christians to live away from home in the same city away from his family for Chri

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How to win the war against terrorism??

On fall of khilafat rule there was no such reaction witnessed among the Muslims of the any other part of the world except the Indian Muslims. Unfortunately it allowed fundamentalist Muslim leadership to alienate Muslims and commit atrocities against Hindus in Mopla, now the Malabar district of Keral

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Joint electorate is conspiracy of anti Christian and anti Pakistan elements.

The first elections under joint election system were conducted in 1971 under the military government when a Christian jurist as an administrative tool, introduce the joint election system, in the legal framework, a political package as election code in the country. The Christian minority in Pakistan

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Under Islamic laws of compensation, Deceased Taxila Christian nurses get 100,000 Rs. each comparing half to the Muslim women.

The laws of compensation and evidence is one of the major factor to turn the Christians to be the second class citizen when their compensation and wittiness is not equal to the Muslims but half in any court of law in Pakistan. The law of compensation goes further stating that if any Muslim man rapes

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Where is remedy of six years of precious life in prison of Ayub Masih?

Its very interesting that Ayub Masih was the first victim sentenced to death and verdict with held by the High Courts when in past all the Christians sentenced by the session courts have been granted bails and acquitted by the High Courts. After the daylight brutal murder of Justice Bhatti of Lahore

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To end the attacks on Churches in Pakistan.

The call of that attack was announced by one extremist religious group, which had the presence in the National Assembly of Pakistan and Provincial Assembly of Punjab. The tribunal under acting justice of Punjab High Courts was constituted to probe in the incident and to recommend the appropriate act

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Minorities countdown on 5th august cabinet meetings for restoration of representation in parliament.

This government restored the joint election system under consultations with non-representing elements of minorities but also abolished the minority-reserved seats in parliament with the end of separate election system in Pakistan. Here we do not want to indulge in discussions that which system of el

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52% say no to Karachi YMCA University Project under present administration when 39% say yes to them.

He explains that due to participation of the general Christians in YMCA the Sindh government failed to take over the property of YMCA for the construction of New Sindh secretariat on the property and hesitations to renew the lease of the said valuable property. His concerns are on the limited member

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Motives behind this new All Pakistan Minorities Alliance?

Now when Bishop John Joseph is not with us and Bishop Coots have openly declared that he is without funds, the new alliance have been formed to involve the other denominations to provide funds to CLF but unfortunately in the said meeting of this Alliance on 14 July at Islamabad, there is no other na

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United platform for south Asian minorities.

Even though as a percentage there are more Christians in Pakistan than in India (10% vs. 2.4 %) in India Christians have been the head of the Army, navy, Air force, Supreme Court. How many Pakistani Christians have held the same post in Pakistan? We have never had electorates on the basis of religi

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65% vote to cancel liquor distribution permits on religious grounds in Pakistan.

This is the report of only one outlet in Pakistan and we have presented the survey report of this shop in particular because it is situated in the heart of cantonment vicinity of Rawalpindi where the general headquarters of armed forces of Pakistan are in view and at minutes walking distance along

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Christian bonded labour in sindh farms and cline brick industry of Punjab.

1. Convention on the Rights of the Child.
2. International Convention of the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid
3. International Convention against Apartheid in Sports.
4. UN Declaration n the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination.
5. Convention on the Preventio

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Pakistani preacher with secret identity in USA.

Its preferred to call Jesus for Muslims a movement rather than organization when churches are recommended as organizations and more involved in structural and administrative activities to bind congregations than aiming at real evangelistic works and Jesus for Muslim seems to be like warriors of Chri

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The so-called pressure groups of Pakistani Christians abroad.

If we discuss the Pakistani Christian groups claiming to be the pressure groups to adopt this passive form of political action form to highlight their acts fail to prove falling within the definition of pressure groups.

Very firstly these groups abroad are formation of integration defying the bas

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Need of Christian University in Pakistan

According to statistical data of Christian population, only 6% have the primary school education only able to read and write, 4% of Christians have the high school education that they are eligible to compete on grade 4 pay scale jobs in government and semi government institutions, 1% Christians have

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Death of M Joseph Gill is great loss of Christian's nation in Pakistan.

He was the first and last leader among Christians to rehabilitate thousand homeless poor Christians in the metropolitan city of Karachi during his councillorship but left no shelter for his family when passed away last week. He was the first and last Christian leader in Pakistan who is there whereve

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Youth is positive alternative to present Christian leadership in Pakistan.

For instance, its crystal clear fact which we are not ready to accept some time and whenever these fact surface from any corner we take it personally and term it as an anti Christian drive. Its also facts that truth is not easy to be swallow but were still have the time to visualize our situation wi

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Majority votes says that Government agencies or Muslim militant groups martyred Bishop John Joseph.

Bishop John Joseph was Christian spokesman on national and international forums and government of neither Pakistan nor the extremist militant groups in Pakistan liked his voice against the blasphemy laws. The Christian social, religious and political elements used his contacts and funds for their pe

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Once again another referendum in Pakistan for power.

Its very important questions for nation to discuss that why always the referendums by military rulers to prolong their rule in Pakistan? For instance the claimed made by General Mushraf in his speech are true then he might have adopted democratic means to become the President of of packets and calle

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Future impact of PAT invitation to Christians to offer prayers in mosque.

This step seems very daring on part of PAT but lost its importance being taken during forthcoming process of national general elections and pointed as election stunt by the opposition Muslim religious parties of PAT. Of course it's the first step in south Asia of its kind where religious communities

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Majority of Christians vote against abolishment of minority seats in parliament.

More over the government backed up the idea for reserved seats by allocating more seats for women and introduction of new category of reserved seats of technocrats instead of only abolishing the minority reserved seats. This very important issue that why government abolished the minority seats in p

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Security of Christian leaders in Pakistan.

Within the first ten years of this constitution the riots among victims of 4th amendment were the beginning and introduction of violence in peaceful Pakistani society and till now the oppression in different shapes has been experienced by the small in numbers than this majority sect of Muslims by th

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Now massacre of Christian worshipers in capital of Pakistan.

The incident of Bahawalpur church was not first incident of attack and massacre in Pakistan because such attacks have been observed weather Babri mosque was demolished in India by Hindu community, Palestinians were under fire of Israel in middle east and any writings or issue was discussed in the we

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Brutal murder of Daniel Pearl

The government also announced that Kashmir cell of secret agencies have been directed to stop working in Pakistan which provides strong evidence that government agencies have the complete record of profiles of all the militants from their training to operation in Afghanistan and Kashmir duly collect

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Mushraff to maintain Islamic Laws. Pakistan church leadership welcomed his military coup.

As the poor Christians have observed that in same way the church leadership have welcomed the implementation of Islamic laws on minorities by the military ruler Zia Ul Haq. The statements were under doubts by Christians but they were unable to express their feeling as these churches have media on in

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Governor Punjab restores medical seats special quota except minorities.

The President of Pakistan have announced to introduce merit in jobs and Professional colleges admissions only two days ago and the action on the announcement can be viewed by the orders of the Governor of Punjab. The Christians reserved seats have been abolished in parliament but Muslim technocrats

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The controversy of SES and JES in Pakistan. JES threat to solidarity and integrity of Pakistan.

Their demand of Joint Election System was never in the interests of Christians as motivated by Catholic Bishops conference. The facts behind this demands lay on passage of time when before the separate election system in pakistan mostly the Bishops were always invited by the governors of provinces o

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Kidnapped Christian Women agony under Islamic Laws.

When Islamic Laws were implemented in 1970 in Pakistan it was presumed that if any woman from other religion accept Islam and enters in Muslim community, her marriage dissolves automatically and no action can be taken against the Muslim community members on the reports of husbands and other relative

"Trial of Pakistani Christian Nation" By Nazir S Bhatti

On demand of our readers, I have decided to release E-Book version of "Trial of Pakistani Christian Nation" on website of PCP which can also be viewed on website of Pakistan Christian Congress www.pakistanchristiancongress.org . You can read chapter wise by clicking tab on left handside of PDF format of E-Book.

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