Hello-(assalam o alaiqum in pakistani! )So far being at Morris, MN; I (Sal)have yet to meet someone from Pakistan. I went to school with one back in the elementary school days, but that was just one.
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*Jesus is the only peace who was born from the Middle East
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 09:22:31 -0800
PRAYER:
Merciful God, you made all of the people of the world in your own image
and have placed before us the pathway of salvation through your saints
and prophets. Look with compassion on the whole human family; take away
the arrogance and hatred which infect our hearts; break down the walls
that separate us; unite us in bonds of love; and work through our
struggle and confusion to accomplish your purposes on earth; that, in
your good time, all nations and races may serve you in justice, peace
and harmony around your heavenly throne. (Amen)
PRAYER:
Merciful God, please give to peoples of the world the required wisdom and
determination, to learn to live in peace like brothers and sisters, by
ending the divisions and hatreds created by our past and present elders.
(Amen)
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Family Fights To Get Mother Out Of Pakistan, May 29, 2009 10:44 pm US/Central (WCCO.com)
"A Somerset, Wis. family wants to know why it's taken more than a year to get their mother to the United States from Pakistan.
Naseem Francis has been away from her family for 14 months, ever since her husband was forced to leave Pakistan without her. As attacks in that country increase, her family says it isn't safe for her to stay there alone.
Jessica met Bernard Francis studying in Pakistan. After eight years of marriage, two children and another on the way, they thought both of Bernard's parents would leave Pakistan to be a part of their life in the U.S. They even built their home so both families could live in it.
"For a long time I was saying 'today could be the day.' I don't think I've said that for a while now," Jessica said.
Bernard's parents, Saleem and Naseem, applied for visas nearly two years ago. His father, Saleem, was almost immediately approved. He was forced to leave his wife in Pakistan, or his paperwork would've expired. After 38 years of marriage, he hasn't seen Naseem in 14 months.
"It has been tough. I've always been thinking about her," Saleem said.
Naseem lives in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. It's the same city where Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in 2007. Naseem lives with three other single women and is Catholic. Her family believes that makes her more of a target for Islamic extremists.
"Especially as things have gotten more and more perilous in Pakistan. We can't accept that anymore," Jessica said.
That's why they've gone door-to-door to get signatures for a petition and taken their fight online at SaveNaseem.com to get lawmakers' attention.
The Francis family has been told the problem is that Naseem doesn't have a last name and her first name is very common, so it's more difficult to move her through.
WCCO-TV contacted Wisconsin Senator Herb Kohl, who is working on this case. His office couldn't tell WCCO what was going on, but a spokesperson told the Francis family it's been the longest wait the office has seen for a visa.
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"The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world and dating back at least 5,000 years, spread over much of what is presently Pakistan. During the second millennium B.C., remnants of this culture fused with the migrating Indo-Aryan peoples. The area underwent successive invasions in subsequent centuries from the Persians, Greeks, Scythians, Arabs (who brought Islam), Afghans, and Turks. The Mughal (Mongol) Empire flourished in the 16th and 17th centuries; the British came to dominate the region in the 18th century. The separation in 1947 of British India into the Muslim state of Pakistan (with West and East sections) and largely Hindu India was never satisfactorily resolved, and India and Pakistan fought two wars - in 1947-48 and 1965 - over the disputed Kashmir territory. A third war between these countries in 1971 - in which India capitalized on Islamabad's marginalization of Bengalis in Pakistani politics - resulted in East Pakistan becoming the separate nation of Bangladesh. In response to Indian nuclear weapons testing, Pakistan conducted its own tests in 1998. The dispute over the state of Kashmir is ongoing, but discussions and confidence-building measures have led to decreased tensions since 2002"
Pakistan earthquake video!
"a video that was made by hamza mehmood! it decribes the affected area of pakistan due to the devestating earthquake in 2005."
Aftershocks jolt Pakistan, creating panic
Trapped woman dies overnight as hope fades of finding more survivors,
Updated: 10:29 a.m. ET Oct. 13, 2005(MSNBC)
Thursday's 5.6-magnitude aftershock was centered 85 miles north of Islamabad, near the epicenter of Saturday's 7.6-magnitude quake that demolished whole towns, mostly in the Himalayan region of Kashmir. The latest quake shook buildings, but there was no significant damage in an already demolished region.
"There was a lot of panic. People were scared. Even those who were sleeping in tents came out. Everybody was crying," said Nisar Abbasi, 36, an accountant camping on the lawn of his destroyed home in Muzaffarabad, a badly hit city in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir.
There have been dozens of aftershocks since the main quake, including a 6.2-magnitude temblor.
Christian Groups Scramble Aid Operations in Wake of Pakistan Earthquake
Christian Aid, Tearfund and Relief Services are just some of the Christian organisations working to help victims of Pakistan's earthquake, which has killed more than 20,000.
Posted: Monday, October 10 , 2005, 16:14 (UK)
DEVASTATING EARTHQUAKE KILLS MORE THAN 20,000 IN PAKISTAN AND LEAVES MILLIONS HOMELESS
By Jeremy Reynalds
Special Correspondent for ASSIST News Service
(Monday, Oct 10th of 2005)
PAKISTAN (ANS) -- A devastating earthquake in Pakistan has killed thousands and left millions homeless..
Strong 7.6-Magnitude Earthquake Rocks Southern Asia. Hundreds Killed in Pakistan, Afghanistan, India.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: October 8, 2005. (By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, AP) Pakistan Christian Post
*see GoodnewsEverybody.com Muslims, Islam, Koran, etc...
" ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- Gul Bibi and her three children fled the Taliban's bloody interpretation of Islamic law in Pakistan's Swat Valley, hoping one day to return.
A pro-Taliban delegation attends a meeting with government officials in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Monday.
But now that the Pakistani government has recognized Taliban rule in the region in exchange for a temporary cease-fire, she said those hopes have been dashed.
She warned that the government's deal with the Taliban will have worldwide implications.
"The whole point is, if it's not contained to Swat, it's going to spill all over in Pakistan and the West also doesn't realize the seriousness of the situation," Bibi said. "Probably your next 9/11 is going to be from Swat." Video Watch Gul Bibi talk about Taliban threat »
The chief minister of North West Frontier Province announced on Monday that the Pakistani government will recognize the Taliban's interpretation of strict Islamic law, or sharia. The Taliban's interpretation of sharia has included banning girls from school, forcing women inside and outlawing forms of entertainment.
This form of Islamic law is already in effect in parts of North West Frontier Province where the Taliban have control -- including Swat, which is located about 100 miles northwest of Islamabad.
Provincial minister Amir Haider Hoti said the people of the region want sharia which fills the "vacuum" left by a lack of access to Pakistan's judicial system. He said he hoped it would bring peace to the region, where Pakistani forces have battled militants aligned with the Taliban.
It is difficult to gauge the concerns of residents in Swat, because the government does not allow journalists into the area due to the ongoing military operation. Also, residents risk their lives if they openly criticize Taliban rule.
Bibi -- who used a false name to protect her identity -- told CNN that people in Swat do not support the Taliban's version of Islamic law. A strict Muslim herself, Bibi said she observes the teachings of the Quran, and the Taliban's interpretation of sharia has nothing to do with the Muslim religion.
"They are killing people, they are beheading people, there is no accounting for what they are doing," Bibi said.
Their oppression is also focused on women. The Taliban have destroyed dozens of girls' schools in the region. Bibi is living in a house in Islamabad with other women who have fled Taliban rule in Swat.
"For God's sake, in the West you must realize this: no education for women," she said. "You are going to destroy an entire generation."
She dismissed the government's peace deal as a concession to the Taliban. But she remains hopeful that she can return to the picturesque Swat Valley with her three children.
"I want peace more than anyone else," Bibi said. "It's my home, it's where I want my children to go back to, it's where I want to live.
"I love Swat. It's because of my love and my passion for Swat that I am speaking.""
"The name Pakistan is derived from the Urdu words Pak (meaning pure) and stan (meaning country). It is nearly twice the size of California..."
"Pakistan is the sixth most populous country in the world and has the second largest Muslim population in the world after Indonesia. It was part of British India prior to partition in 1947 and has a long history of settlement and civilisation including the Indus Valley Civilization. The region has been invaded by the Greeks, Persians, Arabs, Afghans, Turks, and Mongols. The territory was incorporated into British India in the nineteenth century. Since its independence, the country has been characterized by periods of military and economic growth interspersed with political instability."
"..Since the vision delivered by Lord Jesus Christ , he has got great achievements in the field of Gospel and the Unrealism. He has vision to get each soul may change and must won for the arrival of lord our savior Jesus. He has at least house Church planting projects and the pastor training camp again. Ministry has Pentecost all way of teaching. We believe in trinity strongly in Jehovah living God, his son our savior Jesus Christ and the teacher and our great strength Holy Spirit. ..
*received an e-mail May of 09'
Pakistan Gospel Fellowship
"The Ministry of
PAKISTAN GOSPEL FELLOWSHIP "
*see Bible
"..We had climbed for a couple of miles and were at 10,000 feet. Both Denise and I had headaches and felt light headed. After a while the tea came, we sat on mats on the dusty floor sipping it when a man arrived with a sick child, thinking we were doctors. We apologized and said, with Syed interpreting that we were sorry but we had no medicines and were not doctors. Denise and I sat talking about how in the U.S. and the 'West' it seemed that the 'faith healers' only go to huge arenas, big churches or television, where there is money. Why don't they stop by the hospitals on the way to the 'crusade' and empty it. Why don't they go to the poor people, poor villages around the world and help those with no hope of seeing a doctor. ...
After talking a little while I felt the Lord say, "Pray for the child." I got up, walked over and knelt down beside the child and whispered a prayer to Jesus asking for His mercy in healing this poor sick child. Just as I finished a tall thin man entered with some friends. He was desperately ill with what appeared to be a severe heart attack. Again I explained I was not a doctor but went to pray for him.
Denise said Syed appeared shocked at what I was doing. The man was breathing fast, panting, heart racing, he was pale, weak and with severe pain in his chest. I had my left hand in front of his chest and my right hand behind his back. I felt heat rush out from his back going out. He began to breath normally, looked around and moved as if to exercise. He said he felt fine - no pain - he was healed. ...
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*this church was referred to me through my local church in St. Paul for a friend of mine from Bulgaria
Gospel Singer Shizy From Pakistan Now Living In London
"MASIHI GHAZAL "
-Worship
Hindi Christian Song - ACA Hindi Worship team
"Hindi Christian Song
Anil Kant's song"
Flood Catastrophe Continues leaving thousands dead and at least 2.5 million homeless
"PAKISTAN (ANS) -- Massive rains and subsequent flooding in Pakistan has claimed the lives of thousands of people and left 15 millions homeless across the country.
According to Faisal Anwer, Chairman of Faith Christian Fellowship Pakistan (FCF), thousands of villages have been submerged into rivers and millions of houses, roads, bridges, as well as standing crops and livestock, have been swept away.
He said that all of the five provinces of the country have been badly affected and the National Pakistan Disaster Management Authority and Meteorological Department have declared it, "the worst disaster in the history of Pakistan and bigger than the 2005 earthquake."
The chief ministers of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Punjab provinces have declared the affected districts, as "calamity hit areas."
The government of Pakistan has appealed the international community, NGOs and charity groups to help Pakistan to support the relief and rehabilitation work.
The Pakistan Army and various groups have been deployed to help the government to search out and help stranded people to get to dry places.
"However millions are still trapped and an acute shortage of drinking water, food has been reported. Diseases have been broken out in the affected areas and desperate people are waiting for help under the open sky,” Anwer told the ASSIST News Service. “To make matters worse, more rains and flooding has been forecast.
"Pakistani Christian ministries, churches and nonprofit organizations are planning to support the affected people with relief work and by organizing prayer services for the flood-hit people."
FCF told ANS that it has learned that the United States government has pledged US$10 million in aid, while China, the UK, Australia and other countries, have also announced relief aid. The US had pledged to distribute over 62,000 meals via a US airlift.
"Christian women, youth and children have fervently requested FCF to convey their appeals to the international Christian brothers and sisters to support suffering those Pakistan,” Anwer said.
FCF sources have discovered that among that amongst the 2.5 million people affected by the floods, there are about 30,000 are Christians who are still waiting for emergency relief.
For more information, go to: http://fcfpk.yolasite.com
A story written by journalist Dibin Samuel, says that a Pakistani bishop has warned that Christians in Pakistan are "missing out on flood aid."
Samuel said that the Right Reverend Humphrey Sarfraz Peters, Bishop of Peshawar in Pakistan, has warned that Christians there will receive “hardly anything” from the aid packages being distributed among victims of the country’s worst flooding in 80 years.
He stated that the warning from the Bishop “came one day after the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC), an alliance of aid agencies including World Vision and Christian Aid, launched a major appeal for donations to help victims of the floods.”
At least 1,600 people have died in the floods, while millions more are in need of aid. Bishop Peters said many Christians had lost everything.
"Our Christians, who are already deprived and marginalized, are in pathetic conditions. They have lost almost everything in their houses; they could only save their lives,” the Bishop was quoted as saying.
"Soon after the emergency phase that might last for a couple of months, the most important will be the rehabilitation.
“We are sure that some countries will come forward with aid packages, but hardly anything will reach the minority Christians. Do keep us in your special prayers.”
Christians make up less than 3 per cent of the population in majority-Muslim Pakistan and are often excluded from anything more than menial employment, meaning that the majority of them live in extreme poverty.
Survivors of Pakistan floods face growing health problems
By the CNN Wire Staff
August 23, 2010 5:04 a.m. EDT cnn.com
Pakistan floods rescue hampered
"...Another 30,000 people were stuck on their rooftops and in higher areas as they tried to escape rushing floodwaters, a United Nations official said Sunday.
"We've got the government sending boats and helicopters to try to reach people and bring them to safety at the same time as trying to deliver emergency relief," said Nicki Bennett, a senior humanitarian affairs officer for the U.N. ..
The United States will assist in relief efforts by bringing in 50,000 meals, rescue boats and helicopters, 12 pre-fabricated steel bridges and water filtration units, the embassy in Islamabad said.
According to Geo TV, 150 people are missing in a northwestern province, and 3,700 homes were swept away. Forty-seven bridges in Swat have been destroyed or damaged....
U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Greg "Boomer" Roberts, adviser to the Afghan Air Force, told CNN Sunday morning that the Afghan air force rescued about 2,000 villagers who were stranded. Roberts accompanied the air force during their rescue mission in the Kunar province -- a known insurgent stronghold.
"They knew they could accomplish their mission. When we came into the area and the Taliban made their presence known, they continued ... and picked up 2,000 people who were definitely overcome by the floods. And they did it right there in full view of the Taliban.
"There's not a doubt in my mind that some of the folks we picked up are Taliban," he said, adding that most were probably looking for employment with the organization.
He said the rescue mission is the type of move that could sway people away from the Taliban and toward the Afghan government
HUMANITARIAN AID:
"..Food for the Hungry's Emergency response unit is still assessing the needs. However, their teams are readying themselves. "It's getting clean water, hygiene kits, and basic shelter materials like tarps, and tents, and even things like mosquito nets to keep malaria at bay. We have not yet begun our response. We're finding out how best we can support the efforts." In turn, Food for the Hungry also will be supporting the Gospel.
"If Food For the Hungry can come alongside local churches and local Christian organizations and support them, then those organizations not only will provide the immediate needs in the name of Christ, but they can be there in the long-term."
Pray for flood survivors, especially the thousands who are displaced from their homes and vulnerable to disease. You can help their Emergency Response unit as they reach out to help Pakistani families in need. Click here. ..
"A look at the horrors of the Brickyards in Pakistan, filmed by Christian Freedom International. Visit www.christianfreedom.org for more info."
My Christian blood - Pakistan 2006
"The 15-year old son and 14-year old daughter of an underground missionary couple in northern Pakistan were brutally murdered and their dead bodies were burnt by the terrorists a northern districts of Pakistan in September 2006. The boy, Shalom, and his sister, Sharon, were high school students. Police and military forces are supportive to the militants, who also demolished a church and set some houses on fire. Shalom and Sharon were kidnapped along with their missionary parents and two other younger sisters 10 days before the murder. The militants ordered them to convert to Islam and join them in working against Christians. When they refused, the militants first killed Shalom. Then they raped the girl and cut one of her breasts. She bled to death. The murderers left the dead bodies in a ditch, poured petrol over them, and set them alight. The police issued a false statement saying that it was an accident and the petrol tank of the motorcycle opened while they were fallen into the ditch and a spark caused Shalom and Sharon to catch on fire and burn to death. Believers in this area are greatly distressed and fearful. The militants have forbidden them to pray or not even to speak a single word about Christ or Christianity"
Persecuted Church in Pakistan
"This story discuses the persecution that the church faces in Pakistan."
-Forced Conversion
Pakastani Christians Told To Convert or Die
"This news story tells about how Militant Islams threaten Pakastani Christians to convert or die"
" Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in an election-rally attack in Rawalpindi, threatening the stability of a nuclear-armed nation that is a focal point of the West's war on terror.
Benazir Bhutto (Reuters)
Bloomberg News reported that police said at least 16 people died and more than 60 were injured in the gunfire-and-bomb attack on Bhutto's rally. The opposition leader, 54, had survived a previous attempt on her life when she returned from exile two months ago.
Bloomberg said that rioting broke out as her supporters gathered outside the hospital where her death was confirmed and in cities across Pakistan. President Pervez Musharraf, who had allowed her return to participate in parliamentary elections planned for Jan. 8, appealed for calm in a message broadcast on state television.
�I don't think elections will be possible now,�' Hassan Abbas, a Pakistani political analyst at Harvard University, told Bloomberg.
The Pakistan Christian Post reported that Christians in Pakistan condemned the killing, and said that Nazir S. Bhatti, President of Pakistan Christian Congress, has declared Dec. 27 2007, as a �Black Day� in the history of Pakistan. He called Bhutto the voice of democracy and the poor.
The Post said Bhatti called the �death of (Bhatti) a grave challenge to the government on the safety and security of the people of Pakistan, and a total failure of the establishment. It was the responsibility of the government to secure the life of Benazir Bhutto, but it seems that security measures were neglected and (this) sad incident happened.�
Bhatti said, �Pakistani Christians extend (their) grief on the death of Benazir Bhutto, and demand (justice) and the immediate arrest of the culprits.�
Bloomberg said that the death of the nation's most popular politician also deepens a vacuum within its civilian leadership to the benefit of the two other communities that strive to rule Pakistan: the military and Islamic militant movements.
�`Long-term, it raises very, very serious questions about the stability of Pakistan,�' Farzana Shaikh, Pakistan analyst at the London-based Chatham House foreign policy institute, told Bloomberg in a phone interview from Montpellier, France.
Mourning Period
Musharraf announced three days of mourning in the country.
�We will fly the Pakistan flag at half-mast in her honor,�' Bloomberg reported Musharraf said. �Terrorists are the greatest threat to Pakistan and we won't rest till we defeat terrorism.�'
Bloomberg said that Musharraf convened an emergency meeting with top officials to discuss their response to the assassination, according to state-run Associated Press of Pakistan.
It wasn't immediately clear whether Bhutto, the first female leader of an Islamic nation, died in the blast or was shot by the bomber before he blew himself up, Bloomberg News reported Bhutto spokesman Farhatullah Babar told state-run television. Interior Ministry spokesman Javed Cheema said earlier in a phone interview that she was killed in the bombing.
Bloomberg reported that in Rawalpindi, where the army has its headquarters, shops were torched and Bhutto's backers clashed with police. Bhutto supporters poured into the streets across Sindh, the southern province that was her home, burning tires and setting fire to shops in Tando Allah Yar, Khairpur and Larkana, where she lived.
``It was Benazir Bhutto that posed the main threat to pro- Musharraf parties,'' Chatham House's Shaikh told Bloomberg.
Worldwide Condemnation
World leaders condemned the killing, and the United Nations Security Council scheduled a meeting later today to discuss the assassination. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon asked Pakistanis to "work together for peace and national unity.''
Bloomberg reported that President George W. Bush said from his ranch in Crawford, Texas, �We stand with the people of Pakistan in their struggle against the forces of terror.� The U.S. had backed a partnership between Bhutto and Musharraf.
``The manner of her going is a reminder of the common dangers that our region faces from cowardly acts of terrorism and of the need to eradicate this dangerous threat,'' Bloomberg reported that Manmohan Singh, prime minister of neighboring India, said in an e-mailed statement. �Mrs. Bhutto was no ordinary political leader, but one who left a deep imprint on her time and age.�
The New York Times has posted an obituary for Bhutto at www.nytimes.com/2007/12/28/world/asia/28bhuttocnd.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin and an op-ed she wrote last month at www.nytimes.com/2007/11/07/opinion/07bhutto.html "
"According to a Sept. 2007 article in the Christian Post, Khalil Tahir, a well-known Christian lawyer and chairman of the free legal aid organization �Adal Trust,� said that Christians in the country are routinely abused and tortured.
�Although we try to aid the victim's families, offering legal and practical help, the government must ... stop the issue (arising),� the Christian Post reported he said.
Muslims make up about 97 percent of Pakistan�s people, while Hindus make up 1.5 percent, and Christians 1.7 percent.
According to the U.S.- based International Christian Concern, Christian girls are frequently kidnaped, raped, molested, converted, and in some cases killed by Muslims (www.christianpost.com/article/20070903/29149_Pakistani_Christian_Girls_Kidnapped,_Converted_and_Forcibly_Married.htm). "
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