The anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Rawalpindi was hearing a case against the Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) workers who held violent protests and clashed with the police over the arrest of party chief Khadim Hussain Rizvi in 2018, Dawn news reported.
In what is being described as first-of-kind judgment in Pakistan, a man was Friday sentenced to 5 years in jail for a Facebook post that was termed 'blasphemous'.
Addressing a seminar on 'Wahdat ul Ummat' organised here by the Pakistan Ulema Council, the Minister said Pakistan and Islam were interlinked with each other and it was the duty of Ulema -- a body of Muslim scholars who are recognised as having specialist knowledge of Islamic sacred law and theology -- to promote unity in the country.
Last year Pakistan was put in Special Watch List category on International Religious Freedom mainly because of the deterioration in religious freedom in the country.
Violence erupted in Phulhadiyon area of Sindh on Monday over an issue relating to a Hindu man. Ramesh Kumar, a Hindu doctor, was accused of having committed blasphemy.
It was reported in local media that she was taken to Noor Khan Airbase Rawalpindi, from where she would be shifted to the Netherlands.
Asia Bibi, a 47-year-old mother of four, was convicted in 2010 after being accused of insulting Islam in a row with her neighbours. She always maintained her innocence, but has spent most of the past eight years in solitary confinement.
The 47-year-old Bibi, a mother of four children was convicted in 2010 after being accused of defiling the name of the Prophet Mohammed during an argument the year before with Muslim colleagues.
In a landmark verdict, Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned the conviction of a Christian woman facing execution for blasphemy.
An official of the Prime Minister House confirmed that the law minister last night sent his resignation to Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, who accepted it.
According to a report in Dawn, Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal said that protesting people are not ‘average citizens’ and that the government was thoroughly investigating the matter.
According to reports, the army will be deployed in various parts of the city to secure main offices of the judiciary, Parliament House, Presidency, PM House, foreign missions, foreign office and other crucial installations.
Christian man has been arrested on the charges of blasphemy in Pakistan's Punjab province.
Raza who was arrested last year for allegedly posting derogatory content about Sunni Muslim religious leaders and the wives of the Prophet Mohammed on Facebook.
A 35-year-old Hindu man in Pakistan has been arrested for allegedly sending blasphemous content through WhatsApp.
In yet another sign of increasing religious intolerance in Pakistan, three armed burqa-clad sisters on Wednesday shot dead a man near Sialkot for allegedly committing blasphemy 13 years ago.
Eight members of the mob that brutally killed a university student for allegedly publishing blasphemous content online were arrested by Pakistan Police today.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday said that blasphemy is an unpardonable offence and directed the state machinery to find those responsible for putting blasphemous content on social media and bring them to justice without any delay.
A Sikh family from Melbourne has approached the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) after their five-year-old son was allegedly denied enrolment in a school for wearing a turban as it did not align with
Islamabad: A Christian man, accused of sending a derogatory poem about Islam over Whatsapp, is on the run in Pakistan. It has been claimed that the message revealed derogatory words about the Prophet Muhammad and
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