A Pakistani Christian teenage maid has been murdered for not cleaning the house properly. Kainat, 17, was killed in Kamonki, Gujranwala. She was from a poor family and had been working as domestic servant in the home of Muhammad Asif. Kainat’s father Salamat Masih told police that on May 6 he and a relative went…
The Punjab Compulsory Teaching of the Holy Quran Bill 2018, making Quranic teachings mandatory in all schools and colleges in the province, was passed on Friday. When the bill was presented in January, School Education Minister Rana Mashhood Khan said the government could consider opposing the bill as it was part of Pakistan’s faith and…
Aasia Bibi’s appeal to be heard by the Chief Justice of Pakistan The Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP), Mian Saqib Nisar, has said that the Supreme Court will take up the case of Pakistani Christian woman Aasia Bibi. She has been on death row since November 2010 after being convicted in a blasphemy case. The…
A 25-year-old Christian woman has died following being set alight for refusing a Muslim man’s marriage proposal. Asma Yacoob was doused in acid before being set on fire by Rizwan Gujjar, 30. She been working as a beautician for the last two years and was making a good living due to her expert knowledge. Her…
More than a dozen Christian men are missing from the Christian colony of Youhanabad, Karachi. According to the reports on 15 April some policemen wearing black t-shirts broke into several Christians’ houses and took several young Christians forcefully to an unknown place. They treated the family disrespectfully, it is said they were drunk, using abusive…
Three Pakistani Christian girls have been forcefully converted to Islam by Muslim men in three separate incidents in one month. On March 9, 2018 Muhammad Malak and three others sexually assaulted a girl named as Naeema of Shera Kot Lahore. She has been abducted by them and an FIR has been lodged against Malak and…
In an attack on 15 April in Quetta four men on two motorbikes opened fire into a group of Christians in the Christian-majority neighborhood of Essa Nagri. Two Christians, Azhar Iqbal and Rahid Khalid, were killed and two girls and one adult were admitted to hospital in critical condition. After the attack dozens of Christian…
The Chief Justice of Pakistan has set up offices to hear the complaints of minorities. He created the separate area at the Lahore registry on Sunday. A staff member of the SC will receive applications of minorities and those pertaining to human rights violations and forward them to the chief justice after scrutiny. Justice Nisar…
Four members of a Pakistani Christian family have been shot dead in a targeted attack in Quetta. Four others were killed in separate incidents of violence in the provincial capital of Balochistan. On Monday the attackers on a motorbike opened fire on the Christians who were passengers in a rickshaw on the Shah Zaman Road.…
A Pakistani Christian has reportedly died after being brutally tortured by security guards, medical staff and doctors at a hospital in Lahore. Sunil Saleem, 26, was killed when he went to deliver food to his sister at the Services Hospital. His pregnant sister, Kiran Saleem went to see a gynaecologist but the lady doctor was…
