Aasia Bibi’s lawyer believes that the Pakistani government’s failures are responsible for her predicament. He said that it has failed to uphold numerous legal requirements in the case her. Saiful Malook claims that Pakistani officials been influenced by religious extremists who want Christian Bibi to be killed for her alleged crime. He told Asia News:…
On August 7, CLAAS’s team, headed by Mr. Joseph Francis, National Director, along with Emmanuel Masih, father of Shafqat, and Shafqat and Shagufta’s son visited him in district jail Faisalabad. This is a rare case where both husband and wife are charged with blasphemy and imprisoned in two different jails. Shafqat Masih is at District…
Hundreds of Muslims gathered to kill a Pakistani Christian family after they were accused of blasphemy. But Aftab Masih, 42, his wife, and five children were saved from the perilous position when local Muslim clerics calmed the gathered crowd in Railway Colony, Wazirabad, and called the police. Masih was accused of blasphemy after arguing with…
A Pakistani Christian man is fearing for his life after her fiancée was abducted, forcibly converted to Islam and forced to marry a Muslim man. Sajid Maish from Changa Manga, Punjab, got engaged to Christian Nabila Bibi one year ago, and they were due to get married in November. But Bibi was abducted by Muslim…
Pakistani textbooks teach kids intolerance toward religious minorities, says strecent study found that school textbooks in Pakistan teach children intolerance and superiority toward those of other religions. Pakistani school textbooks are biased towards the country’s Muslim majority and teach intolerance towards religious minorities, a study has found. The books were also found to lack content…
Religious groups of Sunni Tehrik have been demanding the execution of a Christian women charged under blasphemy law for some but after the execution of the Mumtaz Qadri demand has intensified. In a recent sit-in by the religious groups in the D ground in Islamabad they demanded the government execute Aasia Bibi, but this was…
A Christian boy accused of blasphemy was rushed away from a court hearing in Pakistan after a Muslim mob threatened his family and demanded his death. Nabeel Masih, 16, is facing the death penalty after being accused of posting on Facebook a photo of the Kaaba with a pig’s head on top. When he appeared…
Former president of Pakistan and co-chairman of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Asif Ali Zardari has told the Ameer Jammat-e-Islami Sirajul Haq to take back the Sindh Assembly’s recently passed forced conversion bill in the. Siraj thanked the PPP leader for taking into consideration the reservations against the bill and said that every citizen of…
The hardliners’ protests following the supreme court’s verdict to acquit Asia Bibi continue. Many roads of all major cities are closed and barricaded, and police and rangers are patrolling to monitor and control the situation. According to reports all government schools and colleges, and even universities, will remain closed in Punjab and Sindh in view…
The Swabi district council in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa days that the sweepers hired in the district’s hospitals should only be Christian. It unanimously adopted the resolution presented by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s Akmal Khan, and demanded that all Muslim sweepers be transferred to other posts. The resolution also stated that this idea was in accordance with court orders.…
