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Pakistan: 1. Please update the information since January 2007 in regard to the security situation in Pakistan for Ahmadis. 2. If possible, please provide specific information on the situation of Ahmadis in the Multan district. 3. Are there recent reports of other Muslims being converted to the Ahmadi faith in Pakistan? If so, have the Ahmadi communities involved suffered any mistreatment as a consequence of this?

8 April 2008 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Pakistan: 1. Are those of Bengali origins included as Mohajirs? 2. Have Pakistanis with Bengali origins who are not politically active faced serious harm or discrimination in the last five years in Karachi or elsewhere in Pakistan?

20 February 2008 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Pakistan: 1. What is the current situation with respect to those participating in anti-Musharraf and pro-democracy demonstrations? 2. Is there any information to suggest different treatment of pro-democracy activists by the Pakistani police and the army? 3. Is there retrospective legislation allowing anti-government activities to be dealt with by military tribunals by military personnel and not the civil courts? Is it operating? 4. If there were outstanding charges against someone at the time of their departure from Pakistan, would these have been likely to be detected by the authorities at the airport and would any action be taken against them at that point?

19 February 2008 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Pakistan: 1. What is the situation in the NWFP in relation to the marriage between a woman not divorced under Sharia law and her new husband? 2. Do fatwas issued in one province extend throughout Pakistan i.e. have persons been pursued and killed after relocating to another part of Pakistan? 3. Have there been any reports of returning seamen being harmed in the NWFP because of a perceived western identity (i.e. no beard, western dress and appearance)?

10 January 2008 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

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. 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. 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 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

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