Just how safe it is for Canada and the UK to take in so many Pakistani immigrants? People with this kind of background are not likely integrate too well.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle1820247.ece
Nilofar Bakhtiar, the Federal Minister for Tourism, was pictured wearing a brightly coloured jumpsuit and hugging her instructor after a tandem jump to raise money for child victims of the earthquake that struck Pakistan in October 2005.
Her resignation was the latest blow to women politicians in Pakistan. Less than two months ago a Punjab provincial minister was shot dead by an Islamic cleric in the eastern city of Gujranwala because she was not wearing a veil.
Ms Bakhtiar told a Senate Standing Committee that her life was under threat.
But the Government did not take any action against the clerics, who are campaigning for the establishment of a Taleban-style conservative Islamic rule in the capital, and instead urged her to resign. The clerics have already set up a parallel justice system and openly promote vigilantes in the city.
The chief cleric of Lal Mosque in Islamabad, Maulana Abdul Aziz, is leading the campaign to establish a hardline sharia regime with his brother, Abdur Rashid Ghazi. The brothers have made headlines in recent months for openly challenging the Government and for encouraging religious vigilantes to patrol the streets of the capital.
The mosque’s baton-wielding devotees have set up so-called morality patrols telling local shops not to sell “un-Islamic” music and movies. Followers have become a common sight at traffic lights where they warn women to stop driving as it is a “sin” against Islam.
Shrouded from head to toe in black burqas, women students of a seminary known as Madrassa Hafza attached to the mosque regularly raid houses which they claim are being used as brothels.
