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ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Minorities Shahbaz Bhatti on Friday informed US Ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter that the Pakistan government had taken several initiatives to uplift and empower minorities in the country.

He said that the incumbent government under the leadership of President Asif Ali Zardari had been following the vision of Quaid-e-Azam for a progressive, moderate and a democratic Pakistan. Bhatti told Munter that district interfaith committees being established under the Federal Ministry of Minorities Affairs would promote inter-religious dialogue and harmony at gross-root level among different faiths. The US ambassador while appreciating the steps taken by the government to promote interfaith harmony said that Pak-America relations would be strengthened at all levels. staff report
 
What empowerment? This current hijra government has only put minorities at danger. Now a days more hindus are being kidnapped in interior sindh. Christians are also being targeted in Punjab and Sindh.

I can say Musharraf definatley tried to empower minorities but Ghaddari's PPP is a joke they can't even protect Muslims properly.
 
A hardline, pro-Taliban Pakistani Muslim cleric Friday offered a reward for anyone who kills a Christian woman sentenced to death by a court on charges of insulting Islam.

The sentence against Asia Bibi has renewed debate about Pakistan's blasphemy law which critics say is used to persecute religious minorities, fan religious extremism and settle personal scores. Non-Muslim minorities account roughly 4 percent of Pakistan's about 170 million population.

Maulana Yousef Qureshi, the imam of a major mosque in the northwestern city of Peshawar, offered a $5,800 (3,700 pounds) reward and warned the government against any move to abolish or change the blasphemy law.

"We will strongly resist any attempt to repeal laws which provide protection to the sanctity of Holy Prophet Mohammad," Qureshi told a rally of hardline Islamists.

"Anyone who kills Asia will be given 500,000 rupees in reward from Masjid Mohabat Khan," he said referring to his mosque.

While Qureshi is not believed to have a wide following, comments by clerics can provoke a violent response and complicate government efforts to combat religious extremism and militancy.

Qureshi, cleric who has been leading congregation at the 17th century Mohabat Khan mosque for decades, later told Reuters he was determined to see her killed.

"We expect her to be hanged and if she is not hanged then we will ask mujahideen and Taliban to kill her."

Bibi, a 45-year-old mother of four, is the first woman to be sentenced to death under the blasphemy law.

Blasphemy convictions are common in mainly Muslim Pakistan. Although the death sentence has never been carried out as most convictions are thrown out on appeal, angry mobs and fanatics have killed many people accused of blasphemy in the past.

In 2006, Qureshi and his followers announced rewards amounting to over $1 million for anyone who killed Danish cartoonists who drew caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad that had enraged Muslims worldwide.

After her conviction, Bibi appealed to President Asif Ali Zardari to pardon her, saying she had been wrongly accused by neighbours due to a personal dispute.

Last week, a government minister said an initial inquiry into the case showed she had not committed blasphemy. The Lahore High Court last month prevented Zardari from granting a pardon and ruled that the High Court should be allowed to decide her appeal.

"No president, no parliament and no government has any right to interfere in the commandants of Islam. Islamic punishment will be implemented at all costs," said Qureshi.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20101203/tpl-uk-Pakistan-blasphemy-81f3b62_1.html
 
Israel's goal is to cause unrest in Pakistan so that they fight each other and then later they will say that Pakistan's Nukes are unsafe. Unfortunately this is in progress and the situation will get worse day by day and this is also done by targeting Pakistan's economy and today Pakistan's economy is badly damaged and once again we are close to be called a Bankrupt and unstable country they only difference that this time it is faster than what it was in Nawaz Sharifs rule. We will always be targeted unless we the people of Pakistan decide whats right for us and fight for it. Quadi E Azam fought for it and he had a dream for us we will have to carry it and accomplish it.
 
Israel's goal is to cause unrest in Pakistan so that they fight each other and then later they will say that Pakistan's Nukes are unsafe. Unfortunately this is in progress and the situation will get worse day by day and this is also done by targeting Pakistan's economy and today Pakistan's economy is badly damaged and once again we are close to be called a Bankrupt and unstable country they only difference that this time it is faster than what it was in Nawaz Sharifs rule. We will always be targeted unless we the people of Pakistan decide whats right for us and fight for it. Quadi E Azam fought for it and he had a dream for us we will have to carry it and accomplish it.

I envy Israeli govt. They get credit for more than what they do.
 
Israel's goal is to cause unrest in Pakistan so that they fight each other and then later they will say that Pakistan's Nukes are unsafe. Unfortunately this is in progress and the situation will get worse day by day and this is also done by targeting Pakistan's economy and today Pakistan's economy is badly damaged and once again we are close to be called a Bankrupt and unstable country they only difference that this time it is faster than what it was in Nawaz Sharifs rule. We will always be targeted unless we the people of Pakistan decide whats right for us and fight for it. Quadi E Azam fought for it and he had a dream for us we will have to carry it and accomplish it.

What the hell has Israel got to do with this?
 

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