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“Honor” demands their lives “[T]heir union was almost immediately ruled a breach of Islamic-tribal law.” “A young couple is in hiding after a tribal court sentenced them to death,” from Stop Honor Killings, March 2 : The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that two young Pakistanis who chose to marry out of […]

Overzealous sports fans? Not likely. “Sri Lanka Cricketers Attacked, Five Police Killed (Update2),” by Khalid Qayum and Farhan Sharif for Bloomberg, March 3 (thanks to all who sent this in): March 3 (Bloomberg) — At least five policemen were killed and six cricket players injured in a terrorist attack on Sri Lanka’s national team in […]

Better death than educated women? Well, certainly the Taliban likes to destroy girls’ schools, but in this case the target seems to have been Maulana Sherani, a senior leader of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl, the political arm of the Taliban in that area. So this could be a jihad among rivals, unless the suicide bomber was […]

Kidnapped in Pakistan While everyone, including the former president of Pakistan, is calling for the U.S. to “dialogue” with terrorists and Islamists, here is an example — one no doubt that will become more commonplace if the U.S. does in fact go down the road of dialoguing with uncompromising terrorists. “Pakistani kidnappers set latest deadline […]

The Pakistani government’s capitulation to the draconian dictates of sharia “does not augur well for us [Christians].” “Pakistan Christians Nervous about Sharia Law Enforcement,” from the Christian Post, February 28: Christians in Pakistan voiced serious concerns about government allowing Islamic laws to be enforced in certain terrorist prone areas, noting that while not many Christians […]

Actually, a blank check would do very nicely, thank you Even though Pakistan is constantly demonstrating its duplicitous nature, its Islamist zeal, including its greater interest to battle India as opposed to its own homegrown terrorists — here is the U.S. government, instead of holding the Pakistani government more accountable, offering it more money. But […]

An update on this story, and another manifestation of a much broader problem in Pakistan: The increasingly strident unwillingness to respect and enforce the rule of secular law. And it is causing them to lose (or give up) ever-larger swathes of their own territory. “Pakistan – Charges filed against kidnappers of young girls,” from Compass […]

For failing to stop their “illegal and un-Islamic” business. “Faith healers: another casualty of lawlessness in Frontier,” from The News, February 23: PESHAWAR: Faith healers have either stopped practicing or have gone underground because of threats to their lives. The faith healers of the city have been receiving threats for the past many months and […]

In the name of, you got it, “honor.” Incidentally, since Pakistan is 97% Muslim, there is a 97% chance this honor-zealous man was Muslim. “Man slays sister for honour,” from the Daily Times, February 23: KARACHI: A man surrendered himself after killing his elderly sister on the pretext of honour killing. Elahi Bux, 45, surrendered […]

Not on Pakistan International Airlines, please It’s an anti-Islamic attempt to please the West! The upshot of this, then, is that any mitigation of Sharia norms is illegitimate: Western governments should take careful note of the invoking of France at the end of this article. “PIA banned sporting beard to please West: Jamaat,” from Express […]