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| An Uncertain Peace Gojra—One Year On | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (Report of an HRCP Fact-Finding Mission) July 2010 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| HRCP team finds tense calm in Gojra | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has stated that although peace prevails in Gojra ahead of the anniversary of last year’s grisly attacks on Christians there, that peace is largely due to the presence of a strong police contingent | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Violence against Christian community in Gojra after allegations of defiling of Holy Quran | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| On August 1, 2009, the HRCP received information of Muslim extremists attacking a Christian neighbourhood in Gojra. The attackers looted Christians’ houses, before setting them on fire. Seven people were burned alive when the houses were torched. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fact-finding report: Filing of blasphemy charges against 5 Ahmadis in Layyah district | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| On January 29, 2009, the print and electronic media reported that a case for blasphemy had been registered against five persons of the Ahmadiyya community under Section 295-C of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) in Kot Sultan police station of Layyah district. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| HRCP Fact Finding Report on communal violence on June 30th 2009 in village Bhamniwala - District Kasur | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Human Rights Commission of Pakistan noticed a news item on July Ist, 2009 that the Christian community of village Bahminawala of District Kasur had staged a protest demonstration demanding that the government and.... | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| HRCP mission to the Northern Areas | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The areas now comprising the Northern Areas of Pakistan were mostly independent territories till the middle of nineteenth century, when the Dogra rulers of Kashimir attacked and merged these territories into the State of Kashmir | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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