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Photo: Prominent Pakistani human rights activist Asma Jehangir
Stop Hair-Raising Atrocities in Baloch: Pakistani Human Rights Activist to Pak govt.
Mar 26 2012
New Delhi : Prominent Pakistani human rights activist Asma Jehangir wants Pakistan to put its act together for a time-bound mechanism to address the unrest in Baluchistan while appealing for stopping "hair-raising" atrocities in the troubled province.
Jehangir, who is in India as part of a delegation of Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan (SCBAP) attending a seminar organised by Supreme Court Bar Association, said her country was going through a "very difficult" phase which was not comprehended here properly.
"I think that the government (of Pakistan) has to put its act together. First of all, the atrocities which are very tragic, which are hair-raising have to stop," Jehangir said on the sidelines of dinner hosted in her honour by South Asia Free Media Association (SAFMA) and South Asian Women in Media (SAWM) here.
She said Pakistan government has to have "time-bound... political talks so that they can convince the nationalists of a sincere agenda which should be placed into their hands so that the nationalists can execute it themselves".
The whole attitude of giving Baluchistan something should now disappear, she said, adding "the Balochs have to be in-charge as a province for themselves."
Talking about 26/11 Mumbai attacks and Pakistan's inability to bring the perpetrators to book, she said they have denounced it but at the same time India must remember that they go through terrorist attacks every single day.
"We are going through very difficult times and those difficult times are not understood here. We are in a transition and it is a very difficult transition. People are losing hope. We are going through a poverty cycle which is difficult to beat, so I think we need time," Jehangir said.
"No doubt there have been mistakes on our part, but after all people have aspirations, just like Indian people have aspirations," she said.
She said a commission from Pakistan visited India and we should wait for their findings too.
Calling for more people to people contact, she said that events like these help a great deal in connecting to each other and bridging the gap between the two neighbouring nations.
The dinner was attended by media personalities and jurists. Pakistan High Commissioner Shahid Malik was also present.
Fifteen female Kurdish rebels killed in southeast Turkey
Mar 26, 2012
ANKARA: Officials say 15 female Kurdish rebel fighters have been killed in clashes with Turkish security forces in southeast Turkey.
An interior ministry statement today said the rebels -- members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK -- were killed in fighting that erupted in the mainly Kurdish province of Bitlis.
It said a government-paid village guard, helping the Turkish security forces, was also killed.
The ministry gave no other information. The death toll is believed to be the highest number of female PKK casualties killed at any one time. The PKK -- believed to have several units of female fighters -- is fighting for autonomy in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast.
Tens of thousands of people have died since the conflict began in 1984.
Pakistan: Girl, boy killed in a Honour Killing incident
Mar 26, 2012
LAHORE: A girl and her alleged lover were killed in retro camisetas a Karo-kari (‘honour' killing) incident in Rajanpur, police officials told The Express Tribune on Sunday. The incident reportedly took place on the night between Saturday and Sunday in the Basti Sardar Chang area.?
Investigation Officer Ghulam Akbar told The Express Tribune that the deceased, Shahina Bibi and Abdul Malik, were cousins suspected of involvement in an illicit affair. The complaint was registered by Malik's father, Mohkam Din, he added.
According to Din's statement, Malik and Shahina were killed at her father's residence. Din had sought Shahina's hand in marriage for his son, regarding which the two were visiting her father, Muhammad Ali. Muhammad Ali had already concluded his daughter's engagement with her other cousin, Afsar Ali. Unbeknown to either Din or his son, Shahina's family elders, upon suspecting her of illicit relations with Malik, declared both of them ‘kari' and passed a death sentence upon them.
Upon their arrival at Muhammad Ali's house, Shahina and Malik were shot by four assailants led by her fiancé Afsar, Din's statement added. He identified the other assailants as Shahina's brother Ashraf and her two cousins, Ataullah and Safdar Ali.
A case against the four has been registered under sections 302 and 311 of the Pakistan Penal Code at the Sadder Rajanpur police station. It is significant to note, that while section 302 deals directly with acts of murder, section 311 directs the court to rule out any later retraction of statements by the accused. According to Investigation Officer Akbar, section 311 had been invoked since Karo-kari related complaints are often retracted later due to mounting community pressures on the aggrieved party.
No arrest has been made so far, despite various raids claimed by Station House Officer (SHO) Inspector Talib Hussain.
Most famous 'face', Fakhra Yunus, of Pak acid attacks kills self
Mar 26 2012
Islamabad : Barely a month after Pakistan bagged its first Oscar for a documentary on victims of acid attacks, the country's most famous face of one such assault ended her 13-year ordeal by jumping out of her sixth-floor apartment in Italy.
Fakhra Yunus was 22 when her husband Bilal Khar, a member of the politically strong Khar family of Punjab, marred her life by allegedly throwing acid on her face, just three years after their marriage.
Bilal Khar, a former provincial legislator, is a cousin of Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar.
Following the intervention of Pakistani writer and activist Tehmina Durrani of "My Feudal Lord" fame, Yunus was shifted to Italy where she underwent over three dozen plastic surgeries and intensive counselling. Ironically, Durrani is also the ex-stepmother of Bilal Khar as she was once married to his father Ghulam Mustafa Khar.
During appearances on Pakistani TV news channels last night, Bilal Khar acknowledged that Yunus was working as a prostitute in Karachi when he married her. He further acknowledged that he was married at least twice before his marriage with Yunus. However, he claimed he was not behind the acid attack.
In a touching piece following Yunus' death, Durrani wrote: "At the young age of 22 an acid attack left her only marginally alive, her horrific mutilation disfigured her so completely that she was now confronted by open disgust and contempt by everyone who set eyes on her in Pakistan. She also became a liability to her own family for whom she was once a source of income.
"I have met many acid victims. Never have I seen one as completely disfigured as Fakhra. She had not just become faceless; her body had also melted to the bone. Despite her stark and hopeless condition, the government of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan was not in the least God-fearing. She was provided nothing... but disdain... and trashed."
At Durrani's request, the Italian government urgently arranged for everything Yunus and her then five-year-old son Nauman required. Despite 38 surgeries and efforts to help her lead a normal life, Yunus jumped to her death from her sixth floor apartment in Rome, 13 years after the attack.
"Despite her extremely disturbing image, the gracious people of Italy never ever made her feel she was any different to any one of them! In the beautiful city of Rome, Fakhra was able to walk the streets, laze in the parks, and enter a shop or a restaurant in the most prestigious of places, without an iota of embarrassment. In fact, every waiter served her more respectfully than he did any other, and every person who looked her way smiled and nodded with respect!" Durrani wrote in The News daily.
Haji Allah Din, Yunus' neighbour in Rome, accompanied her body to Karachi yesterday. He told the media that he had seen Yunus an hour before she committed suicide. At the time, Yunus looked at her scarred face in the mirror and wept bitterly, Allah Din said. He said he had left her crying in her apartment, dismissing the incident as a "daily episode".
After funeral prayers at the Edhi Shelter Home, Yunus was buried at a graveyard in the Defence Housing Authority.
Yunus was reportedly jubilant on the day Pakistan's Parliament passed a law under which people responsible for acid attacks could be punished with life imprisonment. She celebrated the Punjab government's vow to get that law implemented in letter and spirit on International Women's Day.
She was also thrilled when filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy's documentary "Saving face" won an Oscar.
Yet Yunus pined to return to Pakistan, reports said. "If I camisetas del barcelona don't get back in my lifetime, promise to take my dead body home," she once said.
Durrani quoted an Italian professor who counselled Yunus as saying: "I tried to mend her physical scars but was unable to heal her soul."
Pak's deputy attorney gen works off Taliban's sins at Delhi gurdwaras
Mar 26, 2012
NEW DELHI: A man in a maroon kurta sits hunched on the floor on Sunday afternoon, polishing the shoes of devotees at a room in Delhi's Gurdwara Rakabganj. It's a common sight in gurdwaras, except that this man is Pakistan's deputy attorney general, Muhammad Khurshid Khan, who had requested he be allowed to perform seva ( community service) at the shrine.
Khan, 62, is an eminent lawyer and a devout Muslim from Pakistan's Peshawar province. He is in Delhi for a judicial conference. "I have been more keen on visiting various places of worship here to promote harmony between India and Pakistan," says Khan.
Khan's tryst with temples and gurdwaras began in 2010 to "heal the wounds of minorities in Pakistan by becoming their sevadar (performer of service)". For him, it was a "penance" for crimes committed by the Taliban.
In February that year, the Taliban had kidnapped three Sikhs from Peshawar and demanded a $235,000 ransom. Pakistan army rescued two of them, but the third, Jaspal Singh, was beheaded by the captors. After the killing, Khan performed service at a gurdwara in Peshawar.
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Bangladesh: killing grounds where hundreds of Bangalees were camiseta retro massacred about to be obliterated
Mar 26, 2012
At least 12 killing grounds (bodhyabhumi), where hundreds of Bangalees were massacred by the Pakistan occupation forces during the War of Liberation in 1971, are about to be obliterated due to neglect by the authorities.
No government or non-government initiatives have been taken to preserve or renovate the killing grounds in four upazilas of the district, local people and freedoms fighters said.
Lalmonirhat District Muktijoddha Sangsad said it identified 12 killing grounds in the district which have almost vanished or lost area mark.
As it was a bordering district, thousands of people fleeing from different areas of the country gathered in Lalmonirhat town and adjoining areas for safety and shelter during 1971 war. But a large number of them were slain by the occupation forces and their cohorts.
Kazakhstan Puts 47 on Trial on Terrorism Charges
ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) ― A court in western Kazakhstan has begun hearing the case of 47 people charged with involvement in terrorist activities.
State news agency Kazinform cites the prosecutors' office in the western Atyrau province as saying that most of the defendants on trial are suspected of preparing and mounting terrorist attacks last year.
The remaining five are charged in connection with blasts in October near the Atyrau provincial administration and the Atyrau city prosecutors' office.
Kazakhstan has been largely untroubled by Islamist-related violence since gaining independence amid the collapse the Soviet Union.
Last year saw an anomalous string of attacks that authorities tied to radical Islamist organizations.
Israel ends contact with UN Human Rights Council
26 March 2012
Israel has cut working relations with the UN Human Rights Council, officials say, after it decided to investigate Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
The foreign ministry has reportedly told its envoy in Geneva not to co-operate with the council or with UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay.
It will also prevent a UN team entering Israel to assess the effects of settlements on Palestinian rights.
Last week, Israel said the decision to establish the probe was "surrealistic".
Negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians on a two-state solution stalled in late 2010 after a dispute over settlement construction.
About 500,000 Jews live in more than 100 settlements built since Israel's 1967 occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The settlements are considered illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this.
'Superfluous and extravagant'
In Pakistan, Hindus Say Woman's Conversion to Islam Was Coerced
By DECLAN WALSH
Mar 26, 2012
GHOTKI, Pakistan ― Banditry is an old scourge in this impoverished district of southern Pakistan, on the plains between the mighty river Indus and a sprawling desert, where roving gangs rob and kidnap with abandon. Lately, though, local passions have stirred with allegations of an unusual theft: that of a young woman's heart.
In the predawn darkness on Feb. 24, Rinkel Kumari, a 19-year-old student from a Hindu family, disappeared from her home in Mirpur Mathelo, a small village off a busy highway in Sindh Province. Hours later, she resurfaced 12 miles away, at the home of a prominent Muslim cleric who phoned her parents with news that distressed them: Their daughter wished to convert to Islam, he said.
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