Stephen Masih’s house has been set on fire twice in the recent month. The first incident occurred on 18th October, and the second on the 22nd. Luckily nobody was at home, so everybody is safe, but household goods have turned to ashes while the building is severely damaged. Family members who were already in hiding…
A Pakistani Christian sanitation worker was falsely accused of blasphemy. But after police intervened in the case of Amir Masih from Yousafabad, a small town near Faisalabad, the blasphemy charges against him were dropped. When collecting rubbish from local homes, Masih found a bag containing pages from the Bible and Quran. When Masih took the…
The Pakistan Supreme Court has ruled the “terrorism” as defined in the Anti-Terrorism Act 1997 is too wide. It recommended that Parliament bring changes to narrow the meaning and scope of the term. The court highlighted that the term has had been the subject of much controversy, and had been interpreted in many different ways…
