A 22-year-old Christian mother-of-two, Shazia, has managed to escape from her Muslim kidnappers after a year. Shazia got married labourer Saddique Masih eight years ago. They were so poor they were not able to see to their daily needs. Therefore, Shazia decided to find some work too. She got a job in a biscuit factory…
A Christian woman was raped when a local influential Muslim Anna three others forced their way into her home whiles her husband was at work. They gang raped her, threatening her to leave her family property which was next to the home of the culprits in a village in Bahadur Pura, District Kasur of Punjab…
CLAAS has welcomed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s speech delivered at the inauguration of a water filtration plant at Katas Raj temple complex. He said the day is not far when Pakistan will be recognised as a “minorities-friendly country” and that his government is taking steps to improve the lives of under-represented religious groups. Mr Sharif…
A Senate committee will debate how to prevent Pakistan’s blasphemy laws being misused, despite opposition from religious groups who support legislation that carries a mandatory death penalty for insulting Islam. The discussions, based on recommendations from a 24-year-old report, are due to start next week. It is thought the committee will consider a proposal to…
Following the advice of Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah, Governor Sindh Saeeduzzaman Siddiqi on Friday rejected the controversial bill against forced conversion that was recently unanimously adopted by the Sindh Assembly. Sources said that besides the chief minister’s advice, the governor of Sindh also received a formal request from the MQM that the bill…
Babu Shahbaz, a Christian form Kamahan village, Lahore has been arrested by police after allegedly committing blasphemy. On December 30, 2016 Nishtar Colony Police Station, Lahore registered FIR No. 1906/16, offence under section 295-B, PPC (Pakistan Penal Code) against Christian Babu Shahbaz and some unknown persons, after a Muslim Haji Nadeem complained about this incident.…
While the rest of the world was busy celebrating the new year, Pakistan’s land mafia and Sukkur police were planning an attack on the Christian residents of Mission Compound in Sukkur (Pakistan) According to Mr Munawar Gill a resident and an ex officer of the Hyderabad diocese, the property is owned by the Hyderabad Diocese,…
The Council of Common Interest (CCI) decided that a census will begin in Pakistan on March 15, 2017, and will be split into two phases. The CCI made its decision after the Supreme Court (SC) directed government to begin a population census. It was decided that all four provinces will collaborate for the census and…
Bashiran Bibi, a fifty-eight-year-old Christian woman, lives in Pattoki about fifty miles southwest of Lahore, and cleans houses for a living because her husband is paralyzed and cannot work. Having converted to Christianity from the lower caste of Hinduism during the British Raj, many Christians in Pakistan are poor and work as sanitation workers, cleaning…
On December 9 Lahore high court judge Aalia Neelum refused to hear the case of Christian Sajjad Masih Gill accused of Blasphemy in 2011. The trial of his case started in 2012 in the court of additional Sessions Judge Gojra in District Jail of Toba Tek singh. On 13 July 2013, the court punished Sajjad…
