On Christmas Day, three young Christians, Azeem Mehmood, Abbas Gulshan and Irfan Saleem of Kotli Muhammad Sadique, Narrowal, were charged under section 295-A of the blasphemy law, for allegedly burning pages of the Holy Quran. Azeem Mehmood is sent to Jail while the other two were granted bail. There are about 40 Christian houses with…
A Christian, Imran Ghafoor Masih, has been acquitted from blasphemy charges after 11 years. Imran was arrested for blasphemy in 2009 after his neighbour falsely accused him of burning pages of the Holy Quran. In 2010, he was sentenced to life imprisonment. His appeal hearing had been postponed almost seventy times and the case has…
Pakistan has rejected America’s decision to designate it as one of the “countries of part¬ic¬ular concern” (CPC) under its International Religious Freedom Act. The Pakistani Foreign Office branded the decision an “arbitrary and selective assessment”. It raised questions about the credibility of the commission’s process, saying the designation – announced by Secre¬t¬a¬ry of State Mike…
A Christian woman, Sonia, 24, from Rawalpindi was fatally shot in the head by a Muslim man called Muhammad Shahzad for refusing to marry him. Sonia’s father Allah Rakha Masih, who works as a janitor, said that 13 years ago he moved to Rawalpindi with his two daughters, Sonia, and Nazish, 18, who worked as…
A Pakistani Christian father, Asif Masih, of Gulistan Colony, Faisalabad, who is still struggling to get his daughter back from her kidnapper says the police and courts are biased, and instead of registering a case against the kidnaper and recovering his daughter, the policeman told him to forget about his daughter and be happy because…
Shahbaz Masih, who was arrested in 2019 on charges of blasphemy against the prophet Muhammad has been granted bail after nearly a year in prison. The 41-year-old, who is a well known Christian in the community, was granted bail on November 10, 2020. On December 27 last year Shahbaz was attacked by a mob of…
The Sindh High Court of Pakistan has given custody of a 13-year-old Christian girl to her Muslim abductor. Witnesses said the teenager, Arzoo, arrived at the court surrounded by dozens of Muslim women and men so she could not leave, and no one could reach her. Therefore, when she arrived at court and tried to…
The Supreme Court of Pakistan has expressed its displeasure over the federal government reconstituting the minorities’ commission. Chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice Gulzar Ahmed, asked why the federal government has set up another commission when the court had already constituted a minority commission. A three-member bench of the supreme court conducted a hearing of a…
The attempted kidnapping of a teenage Christian girl called Kenza, by a local Muslim landlord and his friends, was foiled by her parents. The father of the teenager, Arif Masih, of village chak 37 South Sargodha, a driver by profession, told the media how local landlord Aqeel Alias Baba along with his friends tried to…
The father of a young Christian girl called Nida is desperate for help, as a Muslim man has threatened him to kidnap his daughter if he doesn’t agree to let him marry the girl. A Christian man, Sabir Masih, a resident of Samundari, District Faisalabad, has registered a first information report (FIR) with the police…
