In this Nov. 20, 2010 file photo, Salman Taseer (r.), the Governor of Pakistani Punjab Province, listens to Pakistani Christian woman Asia Bibi (l.) at a prison in Sheikhupura near Lahore, Pakistan. Taseer was assassinated on Tuesday, Jan. 4, by one of his guards in the Pakistani capital, apparently because he had spoken out against the country's controversial blasphemy laws, officials said.
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4 January 2011 Last updated at 10:26 ET
4 January 2011 Last updated at 10:26 ET
Punjab Governor Salman Taseer assassinated in Islamabad (click here for video)
...The influential governor of Pakistan's Punjab province, Salman Taseer, has died after being shot by one of his bodyguards in the capital, Islamabad....
There was an article in National Geographic not long ago about the burgeoning influence of the Taliban in Punjab. Well. They infiltrated the ISI. No surprise here.
Pakistan's Heartland Under Threat (click here)
West meets East in prosperous, populous Punjab. But the Taliban wants to change the status quo.
Photograph by Ed Kashi
The Taliban would not be amused. On a sunny winter afternoon in Lahore, the local culturati have turned out in force for the annual show at the National College of Arts. In the main courtyard young men and women mingle easily, smoking and sipping from cans of Red Bull. Some of the men sport ponytails, and one has a pierced eyebrow....
Blasphemy Laws? A single 'nut case' of a body guard? Where is the honor in being a 'nut case?' Taliban.
It is a social movement that spawns affiliation with religious extremists.
This is ethnic terror at its worse. This is religious hatred and it directly relates to the oppression of women. Men in Pakistan have no identity without victimizing women? Really?
Walking the tightrope on Pakistan's blasphemy laws (click here)
Anita Joshua
...The argument began after two women refused to drink water from a glass Aasia Bibi had touched because, according to them, it had been defiled due to her faith and caste. This was in 2009. In early November 2010 the sessions court announced the death sentence, triggering yet another debate on the dreaded blasphemy laws, which, according to the last report of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, had come to haunt even the Muslims as rivals sects of Islam had begun to use the provisions against each other....
...Academic and human rights activist Farzana Bari said she was “extremely disturbed and shocked how Aasia's life has been put on the altar of political expediency”. But, while she was supportive of the move to amend the blasphemy laws, she said it ought to have been raised at the time of the 18th Amendment when the entire Constitution was under review. “It is unfortunate that this highly sensitive and controversial issue has been raised around the unfortunate case of Aasia whose chances of release are further reduced by this controversy.”...
Women rights. Where are the global women's rights? Men will kill for the right to oppress and victimize. That sounds like a strong Taliban influence to me.
Blasphemy Laws? A single 'nut case' of a body guard? Where is the honor in being a 'nut case?' Taliban.
It is a social movement that spawns affiliation with religious extremists.
This is ethnic terror at its worse. This is religious hatred and it directly relates to the oppression of women. Men in Pakistan have no identity without victimizing women? Really?
Walking the tightrope on Pakistan's blasphemy laws (click here)
Anita Joshua
...The argument began after two women refused to drink water from a glass Aasia Bibi had touched because, according to them, it had been defiled due to her faith and caste. This was in 2009. In early November 2010 the sessions court announced the death sentence, triggering yet another debate on the dreaded blasphemy laws, which, according to the last report of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, had come to haunt even the Muslims as rivals sects of Islam had begun to use the provisions against each other....
LAHORE--- As the world celebrated Christmas, Pakistan’s beleaguered Christians cowered in fear. Baying for the blood of a Christian woman unjustly convicted under the country’s abusive and discriminatory blasphemy law, Islamist extremists held country-wide protests on Christmas Eve and have yet more planned for the New Year and beyond....
...Academic and human rights activist Farzana Bari said she was “extremely disturbed and shocked how Aasia's life has been put on the altar of political expediency”. But, while she was supportive of the move to amend the blasphemy laws, she said it ought to have been raised at the time of the 18th Amendment when the entire Constitution was under review. “It is unfortunate that this highly sensitive and controversial issue has been raised around the unfortunate case of Aasia whose chances of release are further reduced by this controversy.”...
Women rights. Where are the global women's rights? Men will kill for the right to oppress and victimize. That sounds like a strong Taliban influence to me.
