The Pakistani cleric given an award by the Archbishop of Canterbury has been accused of protecting a blasphemy “blackmail” gang, The Telegraph can reveal.
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UNAMA has confirmed at least three civilians, including a man, a woman and a girl, were killed and four injured in apparent airstrikes in #Afghanistan’s Kunar province in the early hours of 21 September.
Cricket legend Imran Khan is rotting to death in a tiny jail cell in Pakistan. It's time Britain used its influence to help free him
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BIG: Pakistan’s Punjab Chief Minister and Daughter of Nawaz Sharif, Maryam Nawaz makes a big statement - Says there is bigger threat of terrorism from Pakistani provinces of KPK and Balochistan rather than India and Afghanistan. Asim Munir must be fuming at this brutal truth.
UN experts condemn enforced disappearance, torture and killing in custody of Baloch student Imran Ali; urge Pakistan to investigate a wider pattern of extrajudicial deaths
🇵🇰 Pakistan Puts Journalist on Terrorism Watchlist After He Interviews Families of Children Killed by Its Army
🔹Pakistani authorities have placed journalist Danish Irshad on its Fourth Schedule, designating him a suspected terrorist and subjecting him to restrictions on his travel, his banking, and his access to financial services.
🔹Irshad tells Drop Site there is no court order behind the listing and there has been no trial. The Fourth Schedule is an administrative designation under Pakistan’s Anti-Terrorism Act (not a criminal conviction).
🔹Irshad began reporting in Islamabad in 2015 has covered Azad Jammu and Kashmir for nearly a decade, most recently interviewing families whose children were killed by Pakistan’s armed forces.
🔹His listing, issued by the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Home Department without specific allegations against him, is part of a widening crackdown that has swept journalists and activists onto the watchlist since the June ban of the Jammu & Kashmir Joint Awami Action Committee.
🔹He told Drop Site News: “Adding someone’s name to the Fourth Schedule without any court order and without any trial raises a serious question about the state’s credibility. How did a journalist’s speaking and writing become an act of terrorism? Declaring anyone guilty without trial can never be justified.”
Scottish police are investigating reports that several athletes from Pakistan and Uganda did not return home after the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow ended last Sunday.
Pakistani boxer Qudratullah has reportedly gone missing in Glasgow just hours before the country’s team was scheduled to leave for home.
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💢🇵🇰 Pakistan accused of killing at least 30 unarmed protesters in two days in Pakistan-administered Kashmir
Pakistani security forces opened fire on demonstrators near Rawalakot in Pakistan-administered Kashmir this week, with organizers reporting dozens killed as tens of thousands attempted a long march toward the regional capital, Muzaffarabad.
At least 30 people were killed over two days, 25 on Monday and five on Tuesday, according to the Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC), the civil society group leading more than 50 days of protests over electoral reform and detained activists. The Guardian said it could not independently verify the toll, as media were barred from the area and an internet blackout remained in place.
Organizers say forces fired on unarmed marchers without warning; police say armed protesters fired first, killing a paramilitary Ranger. JAAC says security forces later removed bodies from streets and hospitals in Mirpur to conceal the killings.
A resident who reached Islamabad told Drop Site that Rangers had raided homes and forced women at gunpoint to cook for them. Amnesty International has called on Pakistan to lift the communications blackout.
This is how so called elections were carried out on orders or Failed General Asim Munir in Pakistan Occupied Jammu & Kashmir (PoJK). To sell “democracy” narrative to the world, while in reality Pakistan Army kills, kidnaps and loots civilians of PoJK.
List of 31 innocents killed by Pakistani Terrorist Forces led by Asim Munir in Pakistan Occupied Jammu & Kashmir (PoJK) in less than last 48 hours. Their only crime was to expose hypocrisy of Pakistani Punjabi Dalals who PoJK people call Baigairat. Pak Military crackdown in PoJK.
A large number of Pakistani troops are advancing from Holar toward Rawalakot under heavy security arrangements for a Military Crackdown against civilians in PoJK.
Pakistan: Authorities must lift communications blackout following reports of lethal force used against protesters amid elections.
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These visuals are from Pakistan Occupied Jammu & Kashmir (PoJK) today. Dead bodies on the road. Brutal Pak Military crackdown. Civilian leaders imprisoned for asking for their basic rights, human dignity and exposing Asim Munir. 20+ killed in PoJK. Yet the world is silent.
PAKISTAN: Reacting to reports that security forces used lethal force against protesters in Rawalakot, Pakistan-administered Jammu and Kashmir, on the first day of the regional election, Isabelle Lassee, Amnesty International’s Acting Regional Director for South Asia, said:
“The disturbing reports emerging from Rawalakot are consistent with the Pakistani authorities’ long history of unlawful violence against protesters in Jammu and Kashmir. A prompt, independent, and transparent investigation must be ordered into the security forces’ use of force against protesters. So long as an internet and mobile services blackout remains in place, it will severely impede the independent verification of the full extent of the situation on the ground. We urge the Pakistani authorities to restore all communications access and allow media and independent observers into the area.”
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