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...
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...