Intelligence Agencies Deny Holding 11 Missing Prisoners
24 November 2010
Intelligence Agencies Deny Holding 11 Missing Prisoners, The Express Tribune, 24 November 2010
EXCERPT: "Intelligence agencies have submitted a report to the Supreme Court denying that they are holding the 11 missing prisoners. The court was hearing the case of the 11 prisoners who went missing from the Adiala jail after being acquitted of the charges of four terrorism cases in June. After this controversy, the Chief Justice (CJ)...
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Security Agencies Involved in Political Killings: Balochistan Minister
24 November 2010
Top Balochistan Minister Alleges Extrajudicial Killings, BBC News, 24 November 2010
EXCERPT: "Pakistan's security agencies are involved in extrajudicial killings in Balochistan, the province's chief minister says. Sardar Aslam Raisani told the BBC some of the political killings were 'definitely' by security agencies. Human rights organisations say kidnappings and murders of political dissidents are at an all-time high in the province. Balochistan...
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Hundreds Protest Pardon for Christian Woman, Changes to Blashpemy Law
24 November 2010
, The Associated Press, 24 November 2010
EXCERPT: "Around 250 hard-line Muslims staged a demonstration in the central Pakistani city of Lahore on Wednesday, warning the president not to pardon a Christian woman sentenced to death for insulting Islam. They also denounced any attempt to change Pakistan's blasphemy law, which critics say is often misused to persecute Christians like Asia...
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Madrasas Are an Insufficient Precondition for Terrorism: Analysis
24 November 2010
The Pakistani Madrassah and Terrorism: Made and Unmade Conclusions from the Literature - Part I, Perpsectives on Terrorism, November 2010
EXCERPT: "The literature on Pakistani madrassahs suggests that the presence of a madrassah is an unnecessary and insufficient precondition for terrorism. With regard to necessity, the counterfactual ? that the absence of a madrassah is accompanied by the absence of terrorism ? fails to withstand empirical...
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