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Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khakan Abbasi has refused to talk about the country’s blasphemy laws at the United Nations General Assembly. He is currently in New York to attend the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly and was speaking at a session organised by...
A Pakistani Christian man has been sentenced to death after he was accused of sending a Muslim friend a blasphemous Whatsapp message. On July 10 last year Yasir Bashir accused Nadeem James of sending him over a poem that included derogatory remarks against the Prophet Mohamed...
Police have arrested an 18-year-old Christian boy with learning difficulties after it was claimed he had burned pages from the Quran outside a local Muslim shrine. Asif Massih, was arrested on the evening of August 12 after police received the allegations. He has been charged under...
The Islamabad High Court has suggested tackling the misuse of the blasphemy law by imposing the same punishment for those who misuse it or make false allegations, as the offence would attract. Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui also ordered the ban of Facebook in case the website...
A Christian bicycle mechanic has accused of breaking Pakistan’s Blasphemy Laws after an argument with a customer over payment. Ashfaq Masih from Green Town, Lahore, had repaired a bicycle for local resident Muhammad Ishtiaq. However when he asked Ishtiaq to pay the bill, the man responded...
A Christian bicycle mechanic has accused of breaking Pakistan’s Blasphemy Laws after an argument with a customer over payment. Ashfaq Masih from Green Town, Lahore, had repaired a bicycle for local resident Muhammad Ishtiaq. However when he asked Ishtiaq to pay the bill, the man responded...
A Christian bicycle mechanic has accused of breaking Pakistan’s Blasphemy Laws after an argument with a customer over payment. Ashfaq Masih from Green Town, Lahore, had repaired a bicycle for local resident Muhammad Ishtiaq. However when he asked Ishtiaq to pay the bill, the man responded...
A 13-member joint investigation team (JIT) has concluded that the lynching of student Mashal Khan was premeditated and no proof was found that he had committed blasphemy. Instead its report concluded Mashal was a victim of a conspiracy hatched by some student leaders and university employees...