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RRT Case No. 071413088 18 July 2007 \| Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal \| Document type: Case Law
Pakistan: 1. Please provide information on Hangu and its religious and other demographics? 2. Please provide information about the Imamia Student organisation (ISO), its aims, purposes and political action? 3. Is there any information on whether the ISO advocates unity between Shia and Sunnis? 4. Is there a Hangu branch of the ISO? 6. Is there any evidence of violence between Sunnis and Shias in Hangu on 21 March 1997 and 1998 and 9 Feb 2006 and what happened? 7. Is there any evidence or documentation that Nisar Ali and other Shia leaders were shot in Hangu in 2001? 8. Are there other places in Pakistan where there is no violence between Shias and Sunni and there is a large population of Shias where either Urdu or English is widely spoken? 9. Is there any information that the police in Hangu have taken action against Sunnis who have committed violence against Shias? 10. Are there any organisations in Hangu that are anti Shias? 11. Please provide any other information that you think is relevant. 27 June 2007 \| Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal \| Document type: Query Responses
Pakistan: 1. Please advise what the entitlements are with respect to a UK multiple travel visitor visa 26 June 2007 \| Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal \| Document type: Query Responses
Pakistan: 1. Are there any reports of harassment of low level activists in PML(N) by student, or other internal party groups, if they want to discontinue involvement in the party? 18 May 2007 \| Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal \| Document type: Query Responses
Pakistan: 1. Please comment on whether an FIR issued in Dir in 2001 would be "required to have an official police seal placed at the end of the report" or whether the appearance of the FIR would more likely fit the parameters of the advice of DFAT Report 311 of 12 July 2004. 18 May 2007 \| Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal \| Document type: Query Responses
Pakistan: 1. Please provide information on the district of Dir in regard to militant Islamist groups such as the Tehreek Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM) and the Jaish-e-Mohammad. Have these groups been known to target advocates of women's rights or other liberal activists? 2. Please provide further information on the situation for advocates of women's rights, and other liberal activists, in Dir and the NWFP at large. 3. Please provide information on the situation for advocates of women's rights in more liberal locales of Pakistan, such as in Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi. Have any such activists in these cities been harmed by militant Islamists from the NWFP, or for activities conducted in the NWFP? 4. Please provide information on any restrictions that might prevent relocating to a major city such as Islamabad, Lahore or Karachi. 5. Is there any evidence to suggest that ethnic Pushtuns experience mistreatment in Pakistan as suspected supporters of Al Qaeda? What is the situation for Pashtuns in this regard in Karachi? 16 May 2007 \| Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal \| Document type: Query Responses
Pakistan: 1. Are there any reports of tribal jirgas in the NWFP issuing fatwas against the activities of certain NGOs deemed to be guilty of spreading Western values which are contrary to Islam and tribal custom? 2. Is there a monthly magazine known as Leekewal? 3. Does the Tanzin Ittehad Ulama have any influence in the Malikdin Khel? 23 March 2007 \| Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal \| Document type: Query Responses
Pakistan: 1. Is there any recent specific information on the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation League indicating its current structure, aims, activities, leaders and treatment of its members by the Azad Kashmiri and Pakistani authorities? 2. Is there any information as to how Pakistani authorities treat persons who support an independent Kashmiri state? 3. It is not clear to me whether the ISI is engaged in suppressing pro independence views in the Kashmir area and surrounds, or throughout the whole of Pakistan. Is there anything which suggests that their interest is local, or wider? Is there a large Kashmiri community outside the Kashmir area? 29 January 2007 \| Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal \| Document type: Query Responses
Pakistan: 1. What is the situation in Pakistan at present for Mohajirs? 2. What is the situation in Pakistan at present for members, or former members, of the Mohajir Qaumi Movement (MQM)? 3. What is the situation in Pakistan at present for members, or former members of the MQM in terms of possible harm from the Pakistan People's Party (PPP)? 4. What is the situation in Pakistan at present for members, or former members of the MQM in terms of possible harm from members and supporters of the breakaway MQM (Haqiqi) faction? 5. Anything else you feel might be relevant. 17 November 2006 \| Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal \| Document type: Query Responses
Pakistan: 1. Literature on honour killings in Pakistan refers mainly to the killing of women. Is there any evidence that whole families are killed over a matter of honour? 2. Is there any information specifically on Peshawar? 16 November 2006 \| Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal \| Document type: Query Responses

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