There were over 75 sessions in English, Urdu, and two regional languages. Asad Butt, vice Chairman of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan in Karachi said: "Every human being has the right to freedom, nobody can be forced to change religion and marry anyone. The (AG-PA) (Agenzia Fides, 24/10/2020), ASIA - Denunciation of the Landmine Report 2020: Use of mines in conflicts, to the detriment of civilians, ASIA/INDONESIA - Associations write to the UN: investigation into the murder of a Catholic catechist by the military, ASIA/INDONESIA - Appeal of the President to Catholic Academics in favor of the promotion of fraternity and tolerance, ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Exhibition on the 100th birthday of Pope John Paul II: "A Pope of Dialogue", ASIA/PAKISTAN - A court approves the kidnapping of the Catholic minor: vibrant protests by the Church and civil society, ASIA/PAKISTAN - Catholic girl abducted and converted to Islam: the kidnapper's false statements, AMERICA/MEXICO - Religious woman injured in attack on humanitarian workers: "We do not want any more suffering!

Ahmed Rashid is the author of five books on Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asia. Backgrounder by Jayshree Bajoria. Ahmed Rashid is the author of five books on Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asia. Ali Azhar, abductor of the girl, a 44 year old man should be arrested and punished for abducting a minor girl, and forcing her to conversion of religion and for marrying him". Christians in Pakistan: caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed and offenses against religions sow hatred in the world, 2020-11-09 He is the author of the best-seller ''Taliban''.

Is an Afghan peace deal finally within grasp? Saturday, 24 October 2020 human rights religious minorities christianity violence civil society PAKISTAN.

Courage was in the air.

+39-06-69880115 - Fax +39-06-69880107 Cardinal Coutts: "We ask for respect for our rights as citizens of Pakistan", 2020-11-19 Local aid organisations are even banned from helping the 800,000 internally displaced persons that the war against the Taliban has unleashed in the northwest of the country. We have submitted documents to the court certifying that Arzoo Raja is a minor.

Pakistan’s Institutions and Civil Society.

Globally, we are seeing a trend in the space for civil society being curbed and the same has been observed in Pakistan in the last few years. DEUTSCH |

A religious "journalist" elected Custos of the Capuchins in Pakistan, 2020-11-13 Everyone involved in this incident should be punished according to the law".

Pakistanis have been fed by successive governments and their military, that the Afghan government is nothing more than an ally of enemy India. Pakistan’s civil society is a very vibrant and has led the struggle for democracy and human rights despite a wide range of blocking forces and challenges.

To its credit the army, too, is slowly changing and is now pursuing an across the board zero tolerance, counterterrorism strategy. Who is Malawi’s self-proclaimed ‘prophet’ Shepherd Bushiri?

Battle against extremism can’t be won without a transparent strategy that involves civil society.

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His latest book is ‘Pakistan on the Brink.’ He also heads the organising committee of the Lahore Literary Festival. Neither have half a dozen serving and retired Pakistani generals dressed in suits, with their wives in tow, ever slipped into a public audience to hear India’s leading historians and other Indian intellectuals speak of India’s past and future problems and the need to make peace with Pakistan. Over three days, the festival – the third in three years – drew over 70,000 people of all ages and all classes. In Pakistan, civil society has evolved over the years with periods when the government’s policy has been broadly supportive to periods where the work of CSOs was limited to some extent. Donald Trump still believes US election was ‘rigged’, Al Jazeera Centre for Public Liberties & Human Rights. She was kidnapped, converted to Islam and married her 44-year-old abductor, a Muslim (see Fides, 21 and 22 October 2020). A look into Pakistan’s institutions, civil society, and the various players less known. A scared civilian government issued cancellation orders for the festival but in a surprise move, the army argued that the festival should carry on and that protection would be provided. Russia and Pakistan slowly move towards an embrace.

We contest these false statements". For years there has been a high level of tension between the two countries. FRANÇAIS | The army wants to fight, look after refugees, and rebuild shattered cites.

I doubt if there was any young person in the audience who had ever seen, met or spoken to a Jew in their lives. NGOs in Pakistan are unknown because nearly half of the Pakistan’s civil society organizations are unregistered and official registration records are not routinely updated or many of them are not actively operating. Sometimes, civil society in Pakistan is even credited with having toppled the military government of Pervez Musharraf. ESPAÑOL |

As the festival demonstrated, Pakistanis are now desperate for peace – with Afghanistan and India and with the world at large – and they want the army to act forcibly against terrorism. It alone can help the Pakistani government in controlling the menace of terrorism. His latest book is ''Pakistan on the Brink.'' Pakistan will never be able to defeat the Pakistani Taliban and other terrorist outfits unless the all powerful army enlists the help of civil society and the public at large. Before elaborating, it is necessary to have a glimpse of the civil society structure in Pakistan. Suddenly now, there was sympathy for those murdered cartoonists killed by extremists. Since March 2008, Pakistan has been living with a democratic government and this development has been helping the Civil Society in Pakistan to become better organized and more active and efficient in playing its role in Pakistani society, economy and polity.

For the first time – probably in the country’s history – a renowned Jewish writer and journalist spoke openly about his Jewish family’s tumultuous odyssey and litany of tragedies over the past century.

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