Browsing Tag: Taliban

We continue to preach against statues, icons and pictures and yet most Sikh homes continue to display the image of one or more Gurus.

...the activist also recorded statements in Urdu and Pashto, languages spoken in Pakistan and Afghanistan. In the Urdu version, Ms. Manji notes, the girl said, “I would be willing to sacrifice myself again.”

“In our hearts is the thirst for education,” one 14-year-old told reporters brought to her classroom by the Pakistani military’s public relations wing Monday. “We want to show the world that we are not worried.”

Many analysts were surprised that just six attackers could occupy part of the base for such a long time against a force of hundreds of commandos and navy marines. Pakistan security agencies are known sometimes not to give full accounts of violent incidents, and often hold suspects for months without informing the public.

With the US having achieved its aim of crushing the bogey it created, the rest of us are still wondering whether the world is a safer place in the same way as it was being questioned by people when Sayyid Ahmed Barelvi was killed in 1831. Islamic fundamentalism did not die with the death of the Sayyid nor will it die with the killing of Osama bin Laden.

Rashid thinks in Western terms, and he knows how the West thinks. He makes the strategists in the West uneasy, because he draws their attention to how things work in this part of Asia. And he doesn't make it easy for them.

To coincide with International Day for Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Sikhs held protests against United Nations’ lack of action to stop continued forced conversion of minorities to Islam and grave abuse of human rights.

"All the bandits wanted was money. They were not religious men. We did not see any one of them offering prayers even once," he said at his home in Peshawar's Mohallah Jagan Shah...

SCORE today condemned the beheading of two Sikhs by the Taliban in Pakistan as a ‘barbaric act’ and asked President Barack Obama to intervene and take up the matter strongly with the Pakistan Government.

Two Pakistani Sikhs have been beheaded, weeks after being kidnapped in separate incidents in the country's tribal north-west, officials say.

'We are afraid the Taliban will find us' - As the millions displaced by the fighting in north-west Pakistan begin their return, others face the prospect of never going hom

Hundreds of thousands are fleeing the fighting between the Taliban and army. A Red Cross official sees a 'serious humanitarian crisis developing.'

The Pakistan government has already rejected Indian concerns about the plight of Sikhs living in the Pakistan tribal area, saying the issue was being over exaggerated. However, the fact is that so many Sikh families have been displaced by the Taliban militants