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Pakistan intensified crackdown on media, opposition and civil society in 2025: Human Rights Watchauthorities intensified their crackdown on media freedom, political opposition and civil society groups in 2025 by using vague and overbroa...- Pakistani Maulana Tariq Masood, known for demanding death for blasphemy, now hiding to save his own lifePakistani cleric Maulana Tariq Masood, known for advocating the death penalty for blasphemy, is now accused of the same crime. His remarks ...
- Over 100 arrested, probe ordered in attacks on churches and homes of Christians in PakistanOver 100 people, including activists of the extremist group Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), have been taken into custody over attacks on ...
- Mob storms Pakistani police station, lynches man accused of blasphemyOn Saturday, Muhammad Waris, a man in his early 20s, was taken into police custody after a mob attacked him for allegedly desecrating the K...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Deeply concerned over reports of human rights abuses, religious discrimination in Pak: USThe United States has urged the Pakistani government to uphold the rule of law and the freedoms enshrined in the country's Constitution.
- What's really behind Asia's upsurge of outrage?It's easy, too, to finger "radical Islam," and its international sponsors, such as Saudi Arabia, for the exponential rise in intolerance.
- Pakistan govt weak; recent protests have emboldened extremists: USPakistan witnessed countrywide protests by hardline religious groups after a reference to the Prophet Muhammad was left out of a revised ve...
- 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...
- Pakistan religious parties offer blood money to Taseer familyAccording to Islamic jurisprudence, a killer can be pardoned by the legal heirs of the victim with or without taking blood money.
- '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...
- Pakistan Christian woman Asia Bibi convicted for blasphemy files appeal in Supreme CourtLast month, a two-member Lahore High Court bench dismissed the appeal of Asia Bibi after her lawyers failed to prove her innocence in the c...
- 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...
- Blasphemy: Mob attacks Ahmadis, kills woman, 2 girls in PakistanThe violence erupted in Lahore, after claims that a Ahmadi youth, had posted a photo containing blasphemous content, said Amir Mahmood
- Pakistan court sentences Briton to death for blasphemyProsecutors said Asghar even claimed to be a prophet in front of the judge.
- Vendor arrested under blasphemy law in PakistanPakistani police have arrested a vendor under the controversial blasphemy law for allegedly burning the pages of Quran in Lahore, officials...
- Bodyguard Kills Pak Punjab GuvHe was shot dead by one of his own guards, who told interrogators that he was angry about the politician's stance against the country's bla...
- Hafiz Saeed makes public appearance, supports blasphemy lawsJamaat-ud-Daawa (JuD) chief and 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed made his first public appearance in Pakistan's capital Islamabad since he was ...
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