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…
A Pakistani woman has been arrested after she allegedly plotted with two men to carry out an Easter terror attack on a church. The army said on Monday that it captured a medical student, identified as Noreen Leghari, who admitted she was part of a planned attack on an unnamed church. At a news briefing…
A Pakistani Christian man has been tortured with hot iron rods for befriending a Muslim woman. Ansar Masih, 21, was reportedly attacked on April 1 in Sheikhupura by the woman’s father and two brothers, whom he has filed a police report against. Their family has since pressured him to withdraw the complaint. The police report…
On April 4, 2017, Ameen Masih, 45, was locked in his house and burnt to death by two shop owners and their accomplices, for not paying the instalments for the goods he got from the shop in Uggoki, Sialkot. According to eyewitness Khalid Yousaf, Ameen bought electronic appliances worth Rs. 350,000 from Afzal Electronics and…
The prosecutor in the murder trial of two Muslim men has been removed from the trial after he offered to acquit the defendants if they converted to Islam. The offer had been put to 42 of the defendants – all of them Christians – by the Prosecutor in the case Syed Anees Shah. ‘He told…
At the hearing of a petition moved by Salman Shahid requesting the court to take notice of blasphemy being committed on certain social media pages a single bench of Islamabad High Court Comprising Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui on March 9th ordered concerned authorities to block social media pages or websites containing blasphemous material, and take…
