A 13-member joint investigation team (JIT) has concluded that the lynching of student Mashal Khan was premeditated and no proof was found that he had committed blasphemy. Instead its report concluded Mashal was a victim of a conspiracy hatched by some student leaders and university employees as blasphemy allegations levelled against him were baseless. According…
Christian Sewer cleaner Irfan Masih died on June 2nd when a doctor at Umerkot Hospital, Lahore, refused to touch his sludge covered body because he was fasting. Thirty year-old Masih who fell unconscious while cleaning a drain lost his life after doctors at Civil Hospital Umerkot, refused to treat him until his body was washed.…
Christian woman Shakeela Bibi from Arifwala, Punjab, has filed a petition in court stating that since her husband has embraced Islam, she cannot live with him. But instead of dealing with the case according to the law, the Muslim Judge commented that she should also convert to Islam and keep living with him. Shakeela Bibi…
A hospital in Lahore is apparently forcing its non-Muslim staff to either recite verses from the Holy Quran at morning assembly or be marked absent for the day. Mian Mir Hospital Medical Superintendent Dr Muhammad Sarfraz allegedly slapped a Christian paramedic for not attending the assembly, prompting the paramedical staff to protest and shut down…
A Pakistani Muslim leader has said he will “cut the tongue and eyes of those who want to amend the blasphemy law. The Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) provincial chief Amir Mushtaq Ahmad Khan distanced himself from KP CM Pervez Khattak over his statement in the Mashal Khan murder case. He also said that until the investigation is…
On May 3, Christian Zafar Bhatti, who was falsely charged under the blasphemy law, was sentenced to life imprisonment by a Pakistani court. Bhatti was charged under blasphemy law section 295C and telegraph act section 25D in 2012 for sending blasphemous text messages from his mobile phone, which is according to reports was not registered to his…
A Pakistani Christian girl,14, was forcibly converted into Islam by local police official, Munir Ahmed who is Assistant Sub Inspector of City Police Station Hafiz Abad (Punjab). He had kept her in his illegal detention for the last six months. On Sunday April 21, 2017 Sumbel’s mother, Elizabeth, approached CLAAS and met Mr. M.A Joseph…
Christian residents of a Pakistani town have been attacked by an armed Muslim mob. They were set upon in Phool Nagar, District Kasur in Punjab Province. They were attacked following a dispute between Christian and Muslim teens, and the assailants brutally bashed Christians, seriously injuring them. The incident took place after Christian Afaq Masih, son…
There have been fresh calls within Pakistan’s Parliament to reform the nation’s Blasphemy Laws. The resolution follows the mob-killing of a student earlier this month. Pakistan’s top court is investigating the murder of the journalism student from Abdul Wali Khan University in North-West Pakistan, for promoting ‘blasphemous’ content on social media. The student had not…
The Pakistan National Assembly has passed ‘The Compulsory Teaching of the Holy Quran Bill, 2017′. It makes it compulsory for Muslim students from class 1 to 12 in all educational institutions to be taught the Holy Quran. The bill will make the teaching of the entire Naazrah Quran in years 1 to 5, and translation of the entire…
