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Yet another attack on Pakistan’s minority Shiite sect – this time in Karachi on Sunday night, killing at least 45 people – further exposes the failure of the government to rein in a growing wave of sectarian violence. Sunni militants killed more than 400 Shiites in targeted attacks in Pakistan in 2012 – the largest annual total – according to Human Rights Watch. An attack on a billiard hall in southwest Baluchistan province in January  killed over 90 Shiites . Five weeks later a blast in a Shiite-dominated area of Quetta  killed a further 84 people. In response, Pakistan has put Baluchistan under direct government control in an attempt to curtail the action of the al-Qaeda linked militant groups that have operated freely there. The government also has clamped down on Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, the militant group that claimed responsibility for January’s attack and is widely believed to be behind the latest bomb attacks on Abbas Town, a Karachi suburb. Police arrested Malik Ishaq, th

CHITRAL, March 1: Civil Judge Mohammad Shoaib dismissed on Friday the bail petition of former district Nazim and local Jamaat-i-Islami leader Maghfirat Shah who had been arrested recently after explosives were found at the site of his under-construction hydro-power house. The former nazim has been shifted to district jail from the DHQ hospital where he had been admitted two days ago because of cardiac problems. He was booked under sections 5 and 6 of the Explosives Substance Act along with section 380 of the  Pakistan Penal Code. According to police, the explosives had earlier been stolen from a warehouse of ... Read full post...

The Government of Canada, led by a conservative parliament majority, announced February 19, 2013 the official opening of the Office of freedom of religion. With a budget of five million dollars, the Bureau is responsible for "protecting religious minorities threatened and defend their rights, to fight against the spread of hatred and intolerance based on religion and to promote Canadian values ​​of pluralism and tolerance. »The creation of this Bureau also fits in a broader attempt Harper government's make coexist conservatism and multiculturalism. Surfing ambiguity According to the principles of classical liberalism on which is founded the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the state can not Read full post here...