A seven-year-old Christian girl from Talwandi village, located in the Kasur district of Pakistan’s Punjab province, was kidnapped and assaulted by a Muslim man. The child, Nadia, was recovered by local villagers after the attack on April 11, and the perpetrator was taken into custody, according to reports. Nadia was discovered to be missing at…
A Hindu family in Karachi was attacked on April 12, 2020, for refusing to convert to Islam. Basant Kumar, a Hindu and his mother were also threatened with death if they disobeyed the order. Basant’s brother has alleged that 4-5 Muslim evangelists had threatened and attacked them to convert to Islam. In a video he…
Pakistani Christian parents have been refused the return of their son because he converted to Islam, and therefore cannot live with them. According to reports John Masih and his wife Shamshad Bibi of Mian Channu, District Khanewal have been denied custody of their son, Arjesh, who is not allowed to meet or live with his…
Pakistani Christian Saleem Masih, 22, couldn’t survive his injures after being tortured for washing himself at a tube well owned by Muslims. He died at the General Hospital, Lahore of February 28 after being severely beaten by the Muslim landowner on February 25 who accused him of polluting the water of his tube well. Masih…
Pakistani Christian Sneha, 14, of Bahar Colony, Lahore, who was kidnapped, forcibly converted to Islam and married to her kidnapper Zeeshan, has been recovered and reunited with her family. Sneha is the youngest daughter of Sabir Masih and has two sisters and one older brother. She was a student of 9th Standard in Franciscan Girls…
The Sindh High Court has dismissed a petition to overturn the marriage and forced conversion of a 14-year-old Catholic girl. Huma Younas was abducted last October and forced to marry a Muslim. But the court ruled that because she had reached adulthood, both the marriage and conversion were valid. Her lawyers said that if necessary…
The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII), after consultation with minority leaders, has said forced conversion is “un-Islamic and unconstitutional.” According to reports, the CII believes Islam does not allow forced conversions. Last July Prime Minister Imran Khan termed the practice of forced conversions as “un-Islamic” and said there was no precedent in Islamic history for…
The Punjab Assembly in Pakistan unanimously passed a resolution asking the government to improve existing laws, or make new ones, to sternly punish blasphemers. It also called for a central screening system, like that used in Saudi Arabia, to intercept blasphemous content on social media. The resolution said the country’s current blasphemy laws were not…
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…
