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PAKISTAN BLASPHEMY LAWS
Pakistan PM Imran Khan reassures president over Sri Lankan's lynchingImran 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...05 Dec, 2021, 02.34 PM IST- Pakistan police: Mob kills Sri Lankan over alleged blasphemyPolice said initial information shows the Sri Lankan, later identified as Priyantha Kumara, a manager at the facility, was lynched inside t...03 Dec, 2021, 11.16 PM IST
- Pakistan court sentences woman school principal to death for committing blasphemyLahore police in 2013 had registered a blasphemy case against Tanvir on the complaint of a local cleric. She was accused of denying the fin...28 Sep, 2021, 12.44 PM IST
- Pakistan National Bank's manager shot dead by security guard over 'blasphemy'Blasphemy is a hugely sensitive issue in Pakistan, with even unproven allegations often prompting mob violence. Anyone convicted or even ju...05 Nov, 2020, 03.10 PM IST
- Bangladesh Christian Association demands end to persecution against Pak ChristiansA sessions court in Lahore on September 8, 2020 sentenced Asif Pervaiz, 37, a Pakistani Christian, to death for “misusing” his phone to sen...24 Sep, 2020, 03.47 PM IST
- Religious minorities continue to face violence in Pakistan: UN rights chief"The (Pakistan) Government, despite recommendations from international human rights mechanisms, has not amended or repealed blasphemy law p...27 Feb, 2020, 07.00 PM IST
- Violence in Pakistan after Hindu veterinary doctor accused of blasphemyThe Mirpurkhas deputy commissioner said the government would compensate those whose properties were damaged during the violence.29 May, 2019, 01.55 PM IST
- Pakistan court acquits Christian woman on death row for blasphemyIn a landmark verdict, Pakistan's Supreme Court Wednesday overturned the conviction of a Christian woman facing execution for blasphemy.31 Oct, 2018, 11.32 AM IST
- Nawaz Sharif orders action against blasphemous social media content"Those behind this heinous crime should be dealt with, without any delay," Sharif ordered Federal Interior Minister Chaudhary Nisar Ali Kha...14 Mar, 2017, 02.47 PM IST
- US lawmaker seeks changes in Pak blasphemy law"Two Sindhi Hindu teenagers shot in Sindh. Another arrested for Blasphemy. Pakistan's Blasphemy law needs to be changed. Now," Congressman ...30 Jul, 2016, 08.53 AM IST
- Pakistan among worst violators of religious freedom: USCIRF"In 2015, the Pakistani government continued to perpetrate and tolerate systematic, ongoing, and egregious religious freedom violations," t...04 May, 2016, 03.41 AM IST
- Former Pakistan Governor's assassin hangedPakistan today executed former police commando Mumtaz Qadri, convicted for assassinating former Punjab governor Salman Taseer.29 Feb, 2016, 11.34 AM IST
- Pakistan Supreme Court upholds death sentence of killer of former Punjab Governor Salman TaseerPakistan's Supreme Court today rejected an appeal by the killer of former Punjab governor Salman Taseer against the death sentence awarded ...07 Oct, 2015, 04.21 PM IST
- 'Sentencing of Pakistan media mogul will have chilling effect'Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman, owner of Geo and Jang group, was handed down the prison term in absentia for allowing the broadcast of a "blasphemous...27 Nov, 2014, 07.02 PM IST
- Amnesty International asks Pakistan to protect minority communities"This vicious mob killing is just the latest manifestation of the threat of vigilante violence which anyone can face in Pak," said Griffith...05 Nov, 2014, 01.45 PM IST
- Another Pak minister gunned down by Taliban militantsPakistan's Minority Affairs Minister Shahbaz Bhatti, a vocal opponent of the controversial blasphemy law, was on Wednesday gunned down by T...03 Mar, 2011, 04.01 AM IST
- 'Pak in grip of Islamic extremism'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...05 Jan, 2011, 01.45 AM IST
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