A Pakistani Muslim leader has said he will “cut the tongue and eyes of those who want to amend the blasphemy law. The Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) provincial chief Amir Mushtaq Ahmad Khan distanced himself from KP CM Pervez Khattak over his statement in the Mashal Khan murder...
On May 3, Christian Zafar Bhatti, who was falsely charged under the blasphemy law, was sentenced to life imprisonment by a Pakistani court. Bhatti was charged under blasphemy law section 295C and telegraph act section 25D in 2012 for sending blasphemous text messages from his mobile...
There have been fresh calls within Pakistan’s Parliament to reform the nation’s Blasphemy Laws. The resolution follows the mob-killing of a student earlier this month. Pakistan’s top court is investigating the murder of the journalism student from Abdul Wali Khan University in North-West Pakistan, for promoting...
At the hearing of a petition moved by Salman Shahid requesting the court to take notice of blasphemy being committed on certain social media pages a single bench of Islamabad High Court Comprising Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui on March 9th ordered concerned authorities to block...
A 16-year-old boy Christian boy charged with blasphemy has been denied a bail by the lower court. Nabeel Masih was arrested on18th September 2016 under charges of blasphemy after being implicated in posting a derogatory image of Islam’s most sacred site, the Kabaah, on Facebook. His legal...
On January 31 CLAAS secured custody of Babu Shahbaz who is accused of blasphemy for defiling the Holy Quran. CLAAS told the concerned authorities it would present him before the police for investigation if required. CLAAS is keeping Shahbaz in its shelter house where his family...
The Pakistani Government has denied that the blasphemy law is being used to target religious minorities in Pakistan. Interior Minister of Pakistan Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said that perception that religious minorities are suffering because of abuse of blasphemy laws is not true. He said the facts...
An elderly Pakistani Christian is in a perilous situation after blasphemy accusations were levelled against him. Seventy-year-old, Mukhtar Masih of Lambanwali, a village in District Gujranwala, has been caught up in blasphemy allegations after his accusers claimed that he had written blasphemous messages. On Saturday 28th January...
Pakistani Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has said there there will be no compromise on the dignity and respect of the Prophet Muhammad (Peace be Upon Him). Speaking at the “Khatam-e-Nabuwat Conference”, he said: “We can sacrifice our lives, wealth and everything we possess, for the dignity...
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has cleared 115 people of being involved in the torching of Christians’ houses in Joseph Colony, Lahore in 2013. The suspects who were already on bail were acquitted because of a lack of evidence. After a rumour that a Christian Sawan Masih had...