The Washington-DC based human rights group, International Christian Concern (ICC) http://www.persecution.org/ has just learned that six unidentified men went on a robbing spree in a rural village in Pakistan on the night of January 10, and when they realized that one of the households they were robbing was Christian, they gang-raped a 14-year-old girl in front of her parents to violate their faith.
The six criminals, armed with guns, forced their way into two Muslim houses and three Christian homes, physically assaulted the residents, and took cash, TVs, cell phones and other valuables.
After robbing the homes, the six men returned to Rafiq Masih's house and began mocking Rafiq and his wife for being Christians. Not satisfied with the damage they already inflicted, the thieves then bound Rafiq and his wife and gang-raped Rafiq's teenage daughter Naomi right in front of them.
The criminals left Naomi unconscious and in critical condition and escaped with the stolen items. Naomi was immediately taken to the hospital.
The local police have registered a case against the six men for robbery and for gang-raping Naomi. The thieves are still at large but police sources said that investigations are underway and pledged to track down the culprits.
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dinsdag 27 januari 2009
donderdag 22 januari 2009
Taliban Demands End To Music On Pakistan Buses
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - Bus drivers in northwest Pakistan have begun removing audio and video equipment from their vehicles after Taliban militants threatened suicide attacks against those who played music or movies for their passengers, an industry official said Tuesday.
Transport workers in Mardan town received letters this week from militants saying that buses offering such entertainment were guilty of spreading "vulgarity and obscenity", Walid Mir, general secretary of the town's transport union, told The Associated Press.
The militants said they would check the buses and that suicide attacks would be carried out against vehicles that still had audio and video equipment - prompting union members to act quickly, Mir said.
The Taliban letter complained that traveling in buses that provide audiovisual entertainment was a "source of mental agony for pious people," according to a text obtained by AP.
"It is obligatory on us to stop such violations. We request you to remove the vulgar systems...otherwise suicide bombers are ready," the letter said.
Mardan lies in the Northwest Frontier Province just outside Pakistan's volatile tribal belt where extremists among the Taliban, al-Qaeda and local groups are waging a violent campaign against authorities in a bid to impose their strict interpretation of Islam.
Elsewhere in northwest Pakistan, extremists have targeted girls'schools, police posts and other symbols of authority.
In Afghanistan, the Taliban regime that was forced from power in late 2001 banned art, secular music and television, vandalized the national museum and destroyed artwork or statues deemed idolatrous or anti-Muslim.
Local police said they had no knowledge of the threat.
"Certainly, we can look into it if we receive a complaint," Mardan police chief Syed Akhtar Ali Shah said.
Mir said the transport companies had no plans to make a report.
"W did not report it to police because it is a matter of human lives. What can the police do? It involves the lives of hundreds of passengers, and we do not want to put them in danger," Mir said.
Associated Press reporters Asif Shahzad and Christopher Bodeen contributed to this report from Islamabad.
Transport workers in Mardan town received letters this week from militants saying that buses offering such entertainment were guilty of spreading "vulgarity and obscenity", Walid Mir, general secretary of the town's transport union, told The Associated Press.
The militants said they would check the buses and that suicide attacks would be carried out against vehicles that still had audio and video equipment - prompting union members to act quickly, Mir said.
The Taliban letter complained that traveling in buses that provide audiovisual entertainment was a "source of mental agony for pious people," according to a text obtained by AP.
"It is obligatory on us to stop such violations. We request you to remove the vulgar systems...otherwise suicide bombers are ready," the letter said.
Mardan lies in the Northwest Frontier Province just outside Pakistan's volatile tribal belt where extremists among the Taliban, al-Qaeda and local groups are waging a violent campaign against authorities in a bid to impose their strict interpretation of Islam.
Elsewhere in northwest Pakistan, extremists have targeted girls'schools, police posts and other symbols of authority.
In Afghanistan, the Taliban regime that was forced from power in late 2001 banned art, secular music and television, vandalized the national museum and destroyed artwork or statues deemed idolatrous or anti-Muslim.
Local police said they had no knowledge of the threat.
"Certainly, we can look into it if we receive a complaint," Mardan police chief Syed Akhtar Ali Shah said.
Mir said the transport companies had no plans to make a report.
"W did not report it to police because it is a matter of human lives. What can the police do? It involves the lives of hundreds of passengers, and we do not want to put them in danger," Mir said.
Associated Press reporters Asif Shahzad and Christopher Bodeen contributed to this report from Islamabad.
maandag 19 januari 2009
Taliban Militants Destroyed Schools In Pakistan
Fresh attacks on Five Pakistan Schools by Taliban militants
Taliban restrict women's education in Pakistan
Thousands of young women living in a part of Pakistan once considered the country's most idyllic tourist destination have been prevented from going to school after an order from Taliban forces which have seized control of much of the area.
Fearful of violent attacks that haave already seen the torching of over 180 schools in the Swat Valley, school administrators have announced that more than 900 private schools will remain closed until the security situation improves. Government officials, struggling to organise adequate protection, have appealed to schools to extend their winter holidays until at least March. The future education of around 125,000 young women is uncertain as a result of the order, said to come into effect on January 15.
In an echo of Afghanistan under the Taliban, the campaign against female education es the latest phase of brutal and swift advance across the valley led by local Taliban commander Maulana Fazlullah that has included the beheading of opponents, the closure of barber shops, political assassinations, kidnappings and the destruction of homes belonging to the wealthy.
Earlier this month, militants were believed to be behind attacks on the homes of the Wali of Swat, the benign autocrat who ruled the valley and who has now fled to Islamabad, and Hameedullah Khan, a reporter for the respected Dawn newspaper.
The Taliban have also introduced a parallel legal system where makeshift Sharia courts order lashes and death sentences for those seen to be violating their brand of Islamic law, said Shoukat Saleem, a lawyer.
"Yesterday there was a bombing of a school in Mingora, the main city," he added. "No one is giving any education. Girls preparing for their matriculation exams in March have had to abandon their education. Unless the government or the Taliban announce that the situation will be ok, no one will take the risk."
Shoukat Ali Yousafzai, the top civil administrator, said most of the schools were currently closed for winter holidays. "Once they are over, we will give security with the help of the army," he said.
But in a sign of worsening security in even Mingora, which until recently been beyond the reach of the Taliban, Mr Yousafzai said around 50 corpses had been discovered dumped this month. Some have been found beheaded, other carried a note warning readers not to remove the body before an appointed time.
Ziauddin Yousafzai, a spokesman for the Private Schools Management Association, said: "It will be very difficult to reopen the schools as long as there is no political solution of the problem. The Taliban are now the de facto rulers of Swat."
The Swat Valley in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) was once widely known as the "Switzerland of Pakistan" and famed as a destination for honeymooners and other tourists. In the past months the area has increasingly fallen under militant control. Senior army officers claim their remit remains extensive - particularly during the day - but local people say that more than three-quarters of the valley is effectively outside of government control.
The military says the tactics of Taliban fighters have become increasingly brutal in recent months. The number of troops has been boosted in recent months to counter the militants. Maj General Athar Abbas, a senior army spokesman, said: "In Swat the militants have become very ruthless - there are executions and beheadings. This is the fear and terror they want to create on the part of the public," he said.
But Muslim Khan, a Taliban spokesman, said they would not allow any girls' schools to operate until the army withdrew from the valley and Sharia Law was imposed. He told the Associated Press: "These schools are being run under a system introduced by the British and promote obscenity and vulgarity in society."
Fearful of violent attacks that haave already seen the torching of over 180 schools in the Swat Valley, school administrators have announced that more than 900 private schools will remain closed until the security situation improves. Government officials, struggling to organise adequate protection, have appealed to schools to extend their winter holidays until at least March. The future education of around 125,000 young women is uncertain as a result of the order, said to come into effect on January 15.
In an echo of Afghanistan under the Taliban, the campaign against female education es the latest phase of brutal and swift advance across the valley led by local Taliban commander Maulana Fazlullah that has included the beheading of opponents, the closure of barber shops, political assassinations, kidnappings and the destruction of homes belonging to the wealthy.
Earlier this month, militants were believed to be behind attacks on the homes of the Wali of Swat, the benign autocrat who ruled the valley and who has now fled to Islamabad, and Hameedullah Khan, a reporter for the respected Dawn newspaper.
The Taliban have also introduced a parallel legal system where makeshift Sharia courts order lashes and death sentences for those seen to be violating their brand of Islamic law, said Shoukat Saleem, a lawyer.
"Yesterday there was a bombing of a school in Mingora, the main city," he added. "No one is giving any education. Girls preparing for their matriculation exams in March have had to abandon their education. Unless the government or the Taliban announce that the situation will be ok, no one will take the risk."
Shoukat Ali Yousafzai, the top civil administrator, said most of the schools were currently closed for winter holidays. "Once they are over, we will give security with the help of the army," he said.
But in a sign of worsening security in even Mingora, which until recently been beyond the reach of the Taliban, Mr Yousafzai said around 50 corpses had been discovered dumped this month. Some have been found beheaded, other carried a note warning readers not to remove the body before an appointed time.
Ziauddin Yousafzai, a spokesman for the Private Schools Management Association, said: "It will be very difficult to reopen the schools as long as there is no political solution of the problem. The Taliban are now the de facto rulers of Swat."
The Swat Valley in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) was once widely known as the "Switzerland of Pakistan" and famed as a destination for honeymooners and other tourists. In the past months the area has increasingly fallen under militant control. Senior army officers claim their remit remains extensive - particularly during the day - but local people say that more than three-quarters of the valley is effectively outside of government control.
The military says the tactics of Taliban fighters have become increasingly brutal in recent months. The number of troops has been boosted in recent months to counter the militants. Maj General Athar Abbas, a senior army spokesman, said: "In Swat the militants have become very ruthless - there are executions and beheadings. This is the fear and terror they want to create on the part of the public," he said.
But Muslim Khan, a Taliban spokesman, said they would not allow any girls' schools to operate until the army withdrew from the valley and Sharia Law was imposed. He told the Associated Press: "These schools are being run under a system introduced by the British and promote obscenity and vulgarity in society."
vrijdag 16 januari 2009
Pakistani Schoolbooks Teachings:
Pakistani Schoolbooks teach:
A is for Allah,
B is for Bandook (gun)
J is for Jihad
T is for Takrao (collide)
K is for Khunjar (dagger)
H is for Hijab (veil)
Z is for Zunoob (sins)
Christian Girls Drugged And Sold As Sex Slaves In Pakistan.
The Washington-DC based human rights group, International Christian Concern (ICC)
http://www.persecution.org/
has learned that two Christian girls in Pakistan have finally been rescued after two Muslim men kidnapped them two months ago, raped them repeatedly, forcibly converted them to Islam, and sold them to other men as sex slaves.
Sisters Parvisha, 18, and Sanam, 14 received a call in November 2008 from their neighbor, Muhammad Irfan, offering them training in cosmetology and jobs in his beauty salon. Parvisha, the oldest of seven children, convinced her father, Pastor Sharif Alam, to allow her to take the opportunity so that she could help support their struggling family. Irfan told the girls that he would come to pick them up since they did not know where his shop was.
Irfan picked the girls up with another man, Muhammed Mehboob, drove them away and drugged the drinks from the sisters. After drugging them heavily they found themselves locked in a small hotel room almost 500 miles away from home.
At night both men raped the girls.
The next day they drove the sisters to Mehboob's brother-in-law and in his house and they repeatedly raped both girls over several days.
After this nightmare the girls were taken to an Islamic religious school where they were forced to convert to Islam, and were given Muslim names.
Then they were taken to a local law office where they met two lawyers. Irfan and Mehboob told them the girls needed a government run shelter home for women, for embracing Islam.
Because they had no place to spend the night the "lawyers" took the girls to stay with their family.
They took the girls to their apartment and gave them a place to sleep. When the girls slept one of them was placed in another room where she was raped again. While she was crying and yelling for help Sanam woke up and ran into the room of Parvisha and saw both lawyers inserting electrical equipment into Parvisha's private parts.
While Sanam was looking for a weapon she could use to defend her sister, she saw a cell phone lying on the table, grabbed the phone and dialed the emergency mobile police number. Within no time the police arrived and arrested Kokab Sahab-Ul-Din. An FIR was registered against him. Parvisha was immediately taken to the hospital. Sanam called her father from the police station, informing him of the situation. The father rushed to Karachi to bring his daughters back home.
Pastor Alam then contacted a Christian legal group called CLAAS for help, the team visited the family at their home. While they were still talking to the victims and their family a large crowd of about 35 people gathered outside the house. They chanted for the pastor TO HAND THE NEW "CONVERTED" GIRLS over to the custody of local Muslim authorities.
The crowd quickly became hostile and started throwing bricks and stones at Pastor Alam's house. When Pastor Alam and a representative of CLAAS went out to talk to the crowd, someone SHOT at them but hit a bystander. Immediately, Pastor Alam called the local police, but not before the mob had seized Pastor Alam's son Sheraz and severly beat him. The police arrived as the angry mob was trying to break into Pastor Alam's house and dispersed the crowd, arresting three people responsible for the attack.
Since then, Pastor Alam has reported that his son in-law, Stiam Akram Khokhar, has been missing. He believes that the Irfan and Mehboob are responsible and are threatening him to back off the case.
On January 2, both girls gave official statements to the local Magistrate. They stated that they were abducted from their home, raped and then forcibly converted to Islam, and that they want to live and die as Christians and at no cost will leave their family.
http://www.persecution.org/
has learned that two Christian girls in Pakistan have finally been rescued after two Muslim men kidnapped them two months ago, raped them repeatedly, forcibly converted them to Islam, and sold them to other men as sex slaves.
Sisters Parvisha, 18, and Sanam, 14 received a call in November 2008 from their neighbor, Muhammad Irfan, offering them training in cosmetology and jobs in his beauty salon. Parvisha, the oldest of seven children, convinced her father, Pastor Sharif Alam, to allow her to take the opportunity so that she could help support their struggling family. Irfan told the girls that he would come to pick them up since they did not know where his shop was.
Irfan picked the girls up with another man, Muhammed Mehboob, drove them away and drugged the drinks from the sisters. After drugging them heavily they found themselves locked in a small hotel room almost 500 miles away from home.
At night both men raped the girls.
The next day they drove the sisters to Mehboob's brother-in-law and in his house and they repeatedly raped both girls over several days.
After this nightmare the girls were taken to an Islamic religious school where they were forced to convert to Islam, and were given Muslim names.
Then they were taken to a local law office where they met two lawyers. Irfan and Mehboob told them the girls needed a government run shelter home for women, for embracing Islam.
Because they had no place to spend the night the "lawyers" took the girls to stay with their family.
They took the girls to their apartment and gave them a place to sleep. When the girls slept one of them was placed in another room where she was raped again. While she was crying and yelling for help Sanam woke up and ran into the room of Parvisha and saw both lawyers inserting electrical equipment into Parvisha's private parts.
While Sanam was looking for a weapon she could use to defend her sister, she saw a cell phone lying on the table, grabbed the phone and dialed the emergency mobile police number. Within no time the police arrived and arrested Kokab Sahab-Ul-Din. An FIR was registered against him. Parvisha was immediately taken to the hospital. Sanam called her father from the police station, informing him of the situation. The father rushed to Karachi to bring his daughters back home.
Pastor Alam then contacted a Christian legal group called CLAAS for help, the team visited the family at their home. While they were still talking to the victims and their family a large crowd of about 35 people gathered outside the house. They chanted for the pastor TO HAND THE NEW "CONVERTED" GIRLS over to the custody of local Muslim authorities.
The crowd quickly became hostile and started throwing bricks and stones at Pastor Alam's house. When Pastor Alam and a representative of CLAAS went out to talk to the crowd, someone SHOT at them but hit a bystander. Immediately, Pastor Alam called the local police, but not before the mob had seized Pastor Alam's son Sheraz and severly beat him. The police arrived as the angry mob was trying to break into Pastor Alam's house and dispersed the crowd, arresting three people responsible for the attack.
Since then, Pastor Alam has reported that his son in-law, Stiam Akram Khokhar, has been missing. He believes that the Irfan and Mehboob are responsible and are threatening him to back off the case.
On January 2, both girls gave official statements to the local Magistrate. They stated that they were abducted from their home, raped and then forcibly converted to Islam, and that they want to live and die as Christians and at no cost will leave their family.
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