Tag: Intolerance

At least 13 people were killed and 18 injured in gunbattles between two rival groups of political parties in the Malir and Landhi areas...

LAHORE - Speakers at a seminar arranged by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on 'Growth of Intolerance in Pakistan' on Sunday at its New Garden Town Main Office condemned intolerance of all kinds.
The speakers highlighted the facts responsible for the increase in intolerance in the country. Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President and renowned human rights activist Asma Jahangir, Dr Mehdi Hassan, Dr Mubashar Hassan, Dr Haroon, Fehmida Riaz, Khalid Ahmed and

LAHORE - Clerics from various sects have reportedly chosen polemic debates as their preferred means of "spreading" Islam in the last few years, debates that are mostly irrelevant and cannot be resolved, serving only to increase the ever-widening sectarian gap. A survey conducted by Pakistan Today revealed that on sale at CD stalls and shops around Data Darbar, Karbala Gamay Shah, Urdu Bazaar and other areas of the city were quite a range of polemic, hate-mongering material produced by

LAHORE - Several civil society activists including Salmaan Taseer's son and daughter gathered outside Lahore Press Club on Thursday to protest against Bhatti's assassination. The protest was held by different groups at separate spots but they later converged into one and walked till The Mall.
The Christian community held a prayer led by Bishop Victor Pal which was attended by several Christians including Christian Democratic Alliance. At the protest the Centre for Human Rights

LAHORE: Increase in militancy and intolerance has threatened human rights in Pakistan, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) said on Thursday. The HRCP, on the occasion of the World Human Rights Day on December 10, said that it was a time to reflect on the challenges and opportunities for realisation of human rights in the country. This year growing militancy, extremism and intolerance posed the main threat to people's rights.
Many of the old challenges to human rights