The Islamabad High Court has ordered the government to take step to block blasphemous content on the social media. On March 4 the court also...
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Asia Bibi’s fate to be decided next week
January 26, 2019
Next week Asia Bibi will finally find out if she will be free as Pakistan’s top court will decide whether a challenge against her acquittal...
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Pakistani Christian man acquitted of blasphemy charges
January 20, 2019
Pakistani Christian Pervaiz Masih of Kasur, was acquitted of blasphemy charges by the Session Court, Kasur, on January 15. Pervaiz Masih was accused of blasphemy...
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Hundreds of Pakistani imams against terrorism and in favour of Asia Bibi
January 10, 2019
More than 500 Islamic clerics in Pakistan have signed a declaration against terrorism. The Islamabad Declaration is also against violence committed in the name of...
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Asia Bibi’s neighbours want to see her executed
January 3, 2019
Asia Bibi’s former neighbours have said they still want to see her executed. Their comments come after the Pakistani Christian woman was acquitted of blasphemy...
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Pakistani Christian woman starved and kept in solitary confinement on false blasphemy charge
December 17, 2018
A Pakistani Christian woman who was jailed on a false blasphemy charge recounted in a recent interview how she spent four years in solitary confinement...
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Pakistani Christian brothers charged with blasphemy sentenced to death
December 14, 2018
Pakistani Christian brothers Qasir and Amoon have been sentenced to death after being accused of blasphemy. the court of Mr. Javed Iqbal Bosal Additional Sessions...
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Human Rights Day: Pakistan should challenge the blasphemy laws, not entrench them
December 14, 2018
The Centre for Legal Aid, Assistance and Settlement (CLAAS-UK) is calling upon the Pakistani Government to take steps to end the misuse of the Blasphemy...
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CLAAS requests prayers for Sawan Masih’s release
December 14, 2018
Sawan Masih has been on death row since 2014, and his appeal is fixed to be heard on November 27 by the divisional bench before...
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Pakistani Government has no plans to amend blasphemy law
December 14, 2018
Pakistan’s president has said the government will not amend the blasphemy law. President Dr Arif Alvi also said the government has no plan to recognise...
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“The influence of a given religion in a nation ought never to mean that citizens of another religion can be subject to discrimination in social life or, even worse, that violence against them can be tolerated.”
- Pope Emeritus Benedict
“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…”
- Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury
“The law for punishing blasphemy against the Prophet (sws) that is invoked in Pakistan has no foundation in the Qur'ān or Hadith.”
- Javed Ahmad Ghamidi, Renowned Quranic scholar & Islamic modernist theologist
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18JulPakistani Christian high school student charged with blasphemy
A 19-year-old Pakistani Christian student has been charged with blasphemy after getting into a dispuRead more
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04JulPakistani Christian man arrested on suspicion of blasphemy
A Pakistani Christian man has been arrested and interrogated after being accused of blasphemy. PolicRead more