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...
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...