According to authorities, three Christians tossed Islamic holy books outside the homes of two others to falsely accuse them of blasphemy be...

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...

Many people have been lynched to death in Pakistan on the mere accusation of blasphemy. Countless others languish in jails for years with n...

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

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...

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

"The (Pakistan) Government, despite recommendations from international human rights mechanisms, has not amended or repealed blasphemy law p...

The Mirpurkhas deputy commissioner said the government would compensate those whose properties were damaged during the violence.

The report, ‘Religious Minorities in Pakistan’, released in Brussels on Monday, was compiled by EU parliamentarians Alberto Cirio, Fulvio M...

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

"In 2015, the Pakistani government continued to perpetrate and tolerate systematic, ongoing, and egregious religious freedom violations," t...

Pakistan's Supreme Court today rejected an appeal by the killer of former Punjab governor Salman Taseer against the death sentence awarded ...

Last 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...

Indian human rights activists have appealed to Pakistan to release Asia Bibi, woman on death row in the country after being convicted for b...

"This vicious mob killing is just the latest manifestation of the threat of vigilante violence which anyone can face in Pak," said Griffith...

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...