Last month, the Lahore High Court (LHC) acquitted a Christian couple, Shagufta Kausar and Shafqat Masih, who were on death row since 2014 for allegedly sending blasphemous text messages to a fellow Muslim. The couple ...
A policeman in Sadiqabad killed a man recently acquitted of blasphemy charges and released after spending three years in prison. BBC Urdu reported that the accused was a fresh recruit in police force and was ...
A sessions court in Ghizer, Gilgit-Baltistan acquitted a female schoolteacher accused of blasphemy, ordering her release from jail. Hareer Ashraf, a resident of the Yasin tehsil, was booked on charges of blasphemy by the Gakuch ...
“Blasphemy laws are not misused anymore,” so said the special representative to Prime Minister on Religious Affairs Allama Tahir Ashrafi. He derived this conclusion by claiming that no such incidents were reported during the last ...
A police station in Islamabad was attacked by an enraged mob that wanted to lynch a man detained over allegations of blasphemy. Dawn quoted senior police officers as saying that several villagers came bearing batons ...
Two Christian nurses working at the District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital in Faisalabad have been booked on allegations of committing blasphemy after a mob held protest against them in the hospital. Several hospital employees held a ...
The eminent Sindh-based writer Amar Jaleel has been under attack by the right-wing circles for the past few days. The more extreme groups including an infamous publication from Karachi have incited violence against him for ...
A man from the Shia Muslim community was axed to death on Wednesday for alleged blasphemy in Jhang, Punjab. Dawn reported that the slain man was a Shia religious scholar. He was attending a festival ...
Local clerics from all schools of thought have collectively declared the slain blasphemy-accused bank manager in Khushab innocent. Representatives of all sects held an inquiry into the matter after meeting the employees of the bank ...
The bank manager who was shot and killed by a security guard in Khushab had scolded the murderer for coming late to work. The slain manager ‘s brother says that the security guard is using ...
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