A mob attack on a Christian settlement in Pakistan highlights the need for the authorities to take immediate action to protect religious minorities from violence, Human Rights Watch said today. Federal and Continue Reading
A Muslim religious leader killed after his speech at an opposition party’s rally in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was deemed blasphemous. A Pakistani man has been beaten to death for allegedly making Continue Reading
On Feb. 3, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) blocked Wikipedia nationwide. In its statement before the ban, the PTA said the online encyclopedia had refused to remove “sacrilegious contents” from the website. In 2020, Continue Reading
A court in Pakistan has sentenced a Christian to death after he received cartoons of Mohammad, the founder of Islam, in a WhatsApp chat message to his phone. Nouman Asghar, Continue Reading
Alarming numbers in blasphemy cases in Pakistan. From Jan 1 to May 10, 2023: 57 alleged blasphemy cases & 4 extrajudicial killings were reported. Punjab hit hardest with 28 cases, Continue Reading
Two Christian teenagers, one of whom is a minor, were arrested on accusations of blasphemy in the Qurban Lines area of Lahore, Pakistan on 18 May. Adil Babar, 18, and Continue Reading
The engineer allegedly became upset and reprimanded two local drivers for taking too much time from work to pray. A Chinese citizen working for a construction project in Pakistan is Continue Reading
A mob in eastern Pakistan stormed a police station on Saturday, snatched a Muslim man accused of blasphemy from custody and lynched him, in the country’s latest religion-linked killing. Muhammad Waris, in Continue Reading
The mob snatched the suspect from his prison cell and lynched him for allegedly desecrating pages of the Quran. Hundreds of Muslims descended on a police station in Pakistan’s eastern Continue Reading
Insulting Islam or its founder is already a capital offense, but now those who insult people connected to the Prophet Muhammad could get prison time. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan’s blasphemy Continue Reading
