The Christian community from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has staged a protest outside the Peshawar Press Club over the recent announcement of election seats. None of the political parties have announced Christians on the women reserve seats, while on the minority reserve seats Christians have not been included on the priority list of any party. On June…
Two facilitators of the Quetta church suicide bombing have been arrested by counter-terrorism police. The Inspector General of Police Balochistan, Moazzam Jan Ansari briefed the officials of Federal Government and National Counter Terrorism Authority (NACTA) in Islamabad. Another police official said all the handlers have been arrested and are under investigation. It was revealed that…
A Pakistani Christian was beaten to death by police after his uncle refused to pay the extortion money. Waqas Masih, 24, died after being brutally beaten on May 29 in Gujrat District. His mother Khalida Bibi claims the police are now mounting pressure on them to reconcile with their accused colleagues, who they were initially…
The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has once again recommended that the US government designates Pakistan as a “country of particular concern” (CPC) under IRFA. A recent report released by the commission says that banned groups are increasingly targeting the religious minorities in Pakistan. The US has expressed serious concern over unidentified attackers…
A man who raped a seven-year-old Pakistani Christian girl has been sentenced to 14 years in jail. Fakhr-e-Alam a Mulsim was handed the sentence on May 2 for the attack on Saira Bibi. Judge Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali also ordered therapist to pay a fine of 200,000 Pakistani rupees. On April 29, 2014 Fakhr-e-Alam, then 17,…
A teenage Pakistani Christian girl was kidnapped, forcibly converted to Islam and married to a disabled Muslim man. According to Rasheed Masih, a Muslim family took his daughter Ribqa, who is still a minor according to Pakistani law, to another city Depalpur where they converted her to Islam and got her married to Waqas Muhammad…
The Supreme Court of Pakistan has directed all the authorities to officially refer to the Christian community as ‘Masihi’. On May 11 authorities were directed to use the word Masihi instead of the pejorative Esai in official documents and records. In 2016, the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) also issued orders regarding use of…
On May 17 Pakistani Christian Sharoon Timotheus Nasir who was jailed over blasphemy charges died in Gujranwala jail. He was charged under blasphemy law’s section 295-A last November. He was 38 years old, and a married father of three teenage children – one daughter and two sons. Sharoon was the grandson of famous Pakistani Christian…
During the last session of Punjab Assembly Muslim MP Arif Abbasi of Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (political party headed by Imran khan) called a Christian MP Tariq Masih Gill, the Christian parliamentary secretary for human rights and minorities a churha (sweeper). The word Churha is considered offensive and insulting and is often used against Christians.…
Pakistani Christian Shamoun Maish, aged 40 of Domaily – Dina was found dead in Zafar Hospital’s toilet after three days. He was a married father-of-two. According to reports when Shamoun didn’t come home from his work on May 1, his wife got worried and went to the hospital to look for him but she was…
