Pakistan: Rights Group condemns blasphemy allegations, mob attack on Christian family in SargodhaHuman Rights Focus Pakistan (HRFP) condemned the violent mob attack on Nazir Masih and his son, Sultan Masih, in Sargodha following false b...
26 May, 2024, 07.01 AM IST
Pastor shot at in Pakistan's Punjab, days after mob attack on Christians in provinceThe pastor, in his statement to police, said that an objectionable religious slogan in Arabic was written on the outer wall of the church. ...
06 Sep, 2023, 12.10 AM IST
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 ...
17 Aug, 2023, 05.33 PM IST
Pakistan: Multiple churches vandalised in Faisalabad over blasphemy allegationsMultiple Christian churches in the Jaranwala district of Pakistan's Faisalabad have been vandalised and destroyed over blasphemy allegation...
17 Aug, 2023, 12.25 PM IST
Pakistan mob attacks Hindu man over alleged blasphemyMany people have been lynched to death in Pakistan on the mere accusation of blasphemy. Countless others languish in jails for years with n...
22 Aug, 2022, 03.57 PM IST
Religion-fueled mobs on the rise again in Pakistanlynchings over offenses to Islam, real or imagined, are far from new in Pakistan, where blasphemy is punishable by death. Rights activists ...
26 Mar, 2022, 10.48 PM IST
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 seeks to block US-based website of minority AhmadisHarris Zafar said Pakistan's Telecommunication Authority earlier this month issued a legal notice for him and fellow American Amjad Mahmood...
21 Jan, 2021, 08.50 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
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
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
- Vendor arrested under blasphemy law in Pakistan
Pakistani police have arrested a vendor under the controversial blasphemy law for allegedly burning the pages of Quran in Lahore, officials...
26 Mar, 2013, 12.02 PM IST