Pakistani Christian Asia Bibi, has been nominated for the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. She was sentenced to death seven years ago under the country’s blasphemy law. She was accused of blasphemy after arguing with a Muslim woman who told her she could not...
Daily Times 01-Oct-17 by Kaleem Dean During his recent stint at the UN General Assembly, Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi gave an unwitting insight into the plight of Pakistan’s minorities. The venue was the Council on Foreign Relations. And it was Kenneth Roth, the Human Rights Watch...
Nasir Saeed Daily Times, 06 September 2017 Recently, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) published its report on blasphemy laws in 71 countries and punishments ranging from imprisonment, lashings or a death sentence. The commission has called for the repeal of the blasphemy law, stating...
October 14, 2016 The Nations, Web Desk 10. The law has its roots in the Indian Penal Code of 1860 Pakistan’s version of the blasphemy law is an extension of offences relating to religion that were first codified by British rulers of the Subcontinent in 1860. Pakistan inherited...
Most significantly, there is no punishment for blasphemy if the accused is a non-Muslim. The consensus in the Hanafi school of Islamic Jurisprudence has always been that blasphemy against the Holy Prophet (pbuh) is akin to disbelief, which is axiomatic in 23-Oct-16 by Yasser Latif Hamdani Extremists...
“There is a very clear sense that people are nervous about the misuse of the blasphemy law, as a tool of politics or “…a mob thing […] ” he added, flanked by two Pakistani bishops. He earlier told reporters: “Equality under the law is important…”...
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...