Grounded? Are the citizens of Pakistan children? And what is the government trying to accomplish by harassing minorities? Don’t they have enough of a problem dealing with ignorant mullahs? Makes me ashamed to be a Pakistani Muslim on how we treat Pakistanis of other religion and how Western Christians treat people of other religion.
http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/71856/1/
Christian Leader Grounded for Championing Pakistan Minorities’ Cause
Ahmad Naeem Khan
OneWorld South Asia
03 November 2003
LAHORE, Nov 3 (OneWorld) - Human rights activists and political leaders in Pakistan are protesting the government’s move to bar All Pakistan Minorities Alliance (APMA) leader, Clement Shahbaz Bhatti from traveling abroad, dubbing it a move to crush dissent in the country.
“The apparent reason is that we have highlighted the problems of all the minorities from the APMA platform,” says Bhatti, who is also president of the Christian Liberation Front.
APMA represents Christians, Hindus, Sikhs and Zoroastrians, who together constitute three per cent of the 147 million population of the Islamic Republic.
In a joint meeting Sunday, the Justice and Peace Commission of the Catholic Bishops Conference, the Christian Organizations for Social Action in Pakistan (COSAP) and APMA condemned what it called “the harassment of Clement Shahbaz Bhatti.”