Imam in girl’s blasphemy case released

Pakistan police open ‘case’ against Christian teenage boy

ISLAMABAD, Oct 13, (Agencies): A Pakistani cleric who accused a young Christian girl of blasphemy and had been arrested for framing evidence was released on Friday, a day after he was granted bail by a court, his lawyer said.
The girl Rimsha Masih spent three weeks in an adult jail after she was arrested on Aug 16 for allegedly burning pages from the Quran, in a case that prompted worldwide condemnation.
She and her family remain in hiding for safety after Rimsha was released on bail and her case was sent to a juvenile court last month, following a medical report that said she was 14.
Hafiz Mohammed Khalid Chishti, the imam of the mosque in Rimsha’s area, who first gave police the burned papers as evidence against her, was detained on Sept 1 for desecrating the Quran himself and tampering with evidence.

'Israeli attack will prompt Pakistani response'

European diplomat based in Islamabad says Israeli strike would force Pakistan to support Iranian retaliation, while EU official says 'political and economic consequences of attack would be catastrophic for Europe'

Dudi Cohen and AP

Taliban cut nursing woman’s breast, asked others to eat pieces: UN-backed report

Press Trust of India Posted online: Fri Dec 16 2011, 00:56 hrs

Islamabad : Pakistani Taliban fighters cut the breasts of a woman who was breastfeeding her child and asked other women to eat the pieces, in a gory incident highlighted in a report on the abuse of women in the militancy-hit tribal belt bordering Afghanistan.

Pakistan Muslim Militants Kill Christian, Injure 20

Friday, October 7, 2011 (10:47 pm)

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife

Pakistan Christians have faced previous attacks, including against churches.

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A Christian Pakistani politician accused security forces on Friday, October 7, of refusing to detain Muslim fighters who allegedly shot dead one Christian and injured over 20 others in Pakistan's Punjab province.

Nazir S. Bhatti, the president of the Pakistan Christian Congress (PCC) party, told BosNewsLife that local police also declined to investigate the October 5 violence in Chak 134-16/L village, in Punjab's southern Mian Channu area of Khanewal District.

No rights or drinking water for residents in one of Islamabad’s Christian ghettoes

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PAKISTAN
No rights or drinking water for residents in one of Islamabad’s Christian ghettoes 
by Jibran Khan
Such is the fate of hundreds of residents of the France Colony, a walled area of some 600 dwellings, some of them one-room hovels for up to seven people, living in inhuman conditions and poor sanitation. Residents slam the authorities for their lack of concern about their fate and the government for its empty promises. An educational project by the Masihi Foundation could improve things.

Gunmen kill five children in attack on Pakistan bus

Gunmen have ambushed a school bus on the outskirts of the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing at least five children, police say.

US Jew Abducted in Pakistan

Warren Weinstein, a US Jew working as a development contractor in Pakistan, has been kidnapped from his home in Lahore.