By: Ewelina U. Ochab After months of waiting, a top Pakistani judge has confirmed that Asia Bibi will soon get the opportunity to have her appeal heard at the Pakistani Supreme Court. Reportedly, Chief Justice Saqib Nisar recently informed Asia Bibi’s legal representation that the date...
On May 17 Pakistani Christian Sharoon Timotheus Nasir who was jailed over blasphemy charges died in Gujranwala jail. He was charged under blasphemy law’s section 295-A last November. He was 38 years old, and a married father of three teenage children - one daughter and two sons. Sharoon...
The Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP), Mian Saqib Nisar, has said that the Supreme Court will take up the case of Pakistani Christian woman Aasia Bibi.She has been on death row since November 2010 after being convicted in a blasphemy case.The date for the hearing...
Twenty men who were charged with killing Christian couple Shama and Shazad have been acquitted by an anti-terrorism court (ATC). Hearing the case on March 24, the ATC maintained there were doubts about the involvement of the suspects in the lynching of the Christian couple. Giving...
Pakistani Christian Anjum Sandhu who was facing the death penalty after being accused of blasphemy has been acquitted. According this lawyer the case against Sandhu was fabricated. The case began in May 2015 when Sandhu, from Gujranwala in Pakistan's Punjab Province, went to the police to seek...
Pakistani Christian man is still on death row five years after blasphemy allegations against him sparked the attack on Joseph Colony A Muslim man had accused Sawan Masih, 30 of making blasphemous remarks against the prophet Muhammad on 9 March 2013, for which he was sentenced...
A blasphemy suspect is in critical condition after falling off the fourth floor of the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) headquarters in Punjab. According to reports, the police handed over Patras Masih, 18, and his cousin Sajid Masih, 24, to the FIA’s cybercrime wing on Friday. Earlier this...
A 17 year-old Christian boy has been arrested for sharing blasphemous content on Facebook. The alleged incident, led to a violent mob drove Masih’s family and other Christians in the village to flee their homes. Patras Masih, an illiterate cleaner from Tair village in Lahore is...
An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) has sentenced one to death and five others to life in prison over the horrific murder of a university student over claims of blasphemy. Mashal Khan was beaten and shot to death by an angry mob at Mardan’s Abdul Wali Khan University...
Kaleem Dean The faith fueled blasphemy canon took another innocent life when Sarir Ahmed, Principal of Islamia College, Charsadda was mercilessly killed by his own student in the name of blasphemy. The killer was inspired by the theology of aggression generated by Tehreek-e-Labbaik leader Khadim Hussain...