Over 100 people, including activists of the extremist group Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), have been taken into custody over attacks on ...

The radical Islamic group gained political capital as the federal government agreed to issue a letter declaring that the TLP was not a terr...

In Indian context, there are primarily three sources of Islamist radicalization and terrorism. Pakistan-based terrorist organizations top t...

lynchings over offenses to Islam, real or imagined, are far from new in Pakistan, where blasphemy is punishable by death. Rights activists ...

Imran Khan said in an overnight tweet that he spoke to Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa by phone to convey the country's anger and s...

Police said initial information shows the Sri Lankan, later identified as Priyantha Kumara, a manager at the facility, was lynched inside t...

Lahore police in 2013 had registered a blasphemy case against Tanvir on the complaint of a local cleric. She was accused of denying the fin...

Harris Zafar said Pakistan's Telecommunication Authority earlier this month issued a legal notice for him and fellow American Amjad Mahmood...

Pakistan has seen small and scattered protests over the past few weeks in response to French President Emmanuel Macron's recent remarks on ...

Blasphemy is a hugely sensitive issue in Pakistan, with even unproven allegations often prompting mob violence. Anyone convicted or even ju...

On September 24 Usanas Foundation sent another petition to the UN Secretary-General and all the other entities mentioned above, in which it...

"The (Pakistan) Government, despite recommendations from international human rights mechanisms, has not amended or repealed blasphemy law p...

Asia Bibi, a 47-year-old mother of four, was convicted in 2010 after being accused of insulting Islam in a row with her neighbours.

In a landmark verdict, Pakistan's Supreme Court Wednesday overturned the conviction of a Christian woman facing execution for blasphemy.

"Those behind this heinous crime should be dealt with, without any delay," Sharif ordered Federal Interior Minister Chaudhary Nisar Ali Kha...

Extremism feeds on selective retrieval of sacred texts and history, creating irrational fears that require urgent remedial measures.

In Pakistan the blasphemy law was deliberately introduced to the penal code by General Zia in 1982 and then made even more stringent in 198...