Blasphemy Accusation from 1947 – 2022

Blasphemy cases by province/region since 1947 – 2022

Province	Accused	Killed
Punjab	1210	72
Sindh	206	10
Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT)	62	2
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa	47	7
Pakistan (including overseas)	25	1
Balochistan	14	1
Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJK)	14	0
Gilgit Baltistan (GB)	7	0
East Pakistan (now Bangladesh)	1	0
Grand Total	1586	93

Gender Distribution of Blasphemy cases since 1947 – 2022

Gender Distribution	Accused	Killed
Females	128	19
Males	1458	74
Grand Total	1586	93

Blasphemy cases 1947-2022

Year	Cases	Accused	Injured	Killed
1947	0	0	0	0
1948	1	0	0	1
1949	0	0	0	0
1950	2	0	0	2
1951	0	0	0	0
1952	0	0	0	0
1953	1	0	0	0
1954	0	0	0	0
1955	0	0	0	0
1956	0	0	0	0
1957	0	0	0	0
1958	0	0	0	0
1959	1	1	0	0
1960	0	0	0	0
1961	0	0	0	0
1962	2	2	0	0
1963	1	0	0	0
1964	0	0	0	0
1965	0	0	0	0
1966	0	0	0	0
1967	0	0	0	0
1968	0	0	0	0
1969	0	0	0	0
1970	0	0	0	0
1971	0	0	0	0
1972	0	0	0	0
1973	0	0	0	0
1974	0	0	0	0
1975	0	0	0	0
1976	1	0	0	0
1977	0	0	0	0
1978	1	0	0	0
1979	1	1	0	0
1980	0	0	0	0
1981	0	0	0	0
1982	0	0	0	0
1983	0	0	0	0
1984	0	0	0	0
1985	0	0	0	0
1986	0	0	0	0
1987	2	2	0	0
1988	6	10	0	0
1989	1	1	0	0
1990	0	0	0	0
1991	3	2	0	0
1992	6	1	0	4
1993	5	3	0	1
1994	4	1	0	1
1995	7	1	1	4
1996	5	2	0	0
1997	5	0	1	1
1998	5	2	0	1
1999	3	1	0	2
2000	7	3	0	1
2001	1	0	0	1
2002	5	2	0	3
2003	8	4	0	4
2004	4	7	0	0
2005	8	8	0	2
2006	10	15	0	2
2007	10	19	0	1
2008	9	7	0	3
2009	11	17	0	10
2010	15	9	0	2
2011	60	89	10	11
2012	38	187	3	3
2013	28	40	0	0
2014	47	243	10	10
2015	33	47	0	2
2016	39	70	0	1
2017	53	66	0	5
2018	34	91	0	2
2019	30	86	0	1
2020	138	227	1	3
2021	50	39	4	5
2022	171	171	89	4
Total	872	1477	119	93

Provincial Breakdown of Blasphemy Accused since 1947 – 2022

Year	AJK	BAL	ICT	GB	KPK	UNK	PUN	SIN	BAN	Total
1947	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1948	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
1949	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1950	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	2
1951	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1952	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1953	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1
1954	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1955	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1956	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1957	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1958	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1959	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1
1960	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1961	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	2
1963	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
1964	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1965	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1966	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1967	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1968	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1969	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1970	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1971	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1972	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	–	0
1973	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	–	0
1974	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	–	0
1975	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	–	0
1976	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	–	1
1977	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	–	0
1978	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	–	1
1979	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	–	1
1980	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	–	0
1981	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	–	0
1982	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	–	0
1983	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	–	0
1984	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	–	0
1985	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	–	0
1986	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	–	0
1987	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	–	2
1988	0	5	0	0	0	1	1	3	–	10
1989	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	–	1
1990	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	–	0
1991	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	–	3
1992	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	0	–	6
1993	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	1	–	8
1994	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	–	4
1995	0	0	0	0	2	0	4	1	–	7
1996	0	0	0	0	3	0	1	1	–	4
1997	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	0	–	5
1998	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	0	–	5
1999	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	–	3
2000	0	0	1	0	0	2	3	2	–	8
2001	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	–	1
2002	0	0	0	0	1	0	4	0	–	5
2003	0	0	0	0	1	1	6	0	–	8
2004	0	0	0	0	0	1	6	0	–	7
2005	0	0	0	0	1	0	12	0	–	13
2006	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	9	–	20
2007	0	0	7	0	0	0	16	1	–	24
2008	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	3	–	11
2009	0	0	0	0	0	0	29	2	–	31
2010	0	0	0	0	1	0	15	3	–	19
2011	0	0	2	1	3	4	91	9	–	110
2012	1	1	3	0	1	0	178	12	–	196
2013	1	0	4	0	0	0	36	3	–	44
2014	0	0	2	4	0	0	243	14	–	263
2015	0	0	0	0	0	0	48	2	–	50
2016	0	2	2	0	1	0	59	7	–	71
2017	0	2	16	0	4	0	36	20	–	78
2018	0	1	2	1	3	0	83	3	–	93
2019	1	0	4	0	0	0	30	53	–	88
2020	7	0	1	0	9	13	178	23	–	231
2021	1	0	13	1	9	0	33	6	–	63
2022	3	2	7	0	14	0	112	33	–	171
Total	14	15	64	7	53	26	1280	215	1	1674

AJK = Azad Jammu & Kashmir

BAL = Balochistan

ICT = Islamabad Capital Territory

GB = Gilgit Baltistan

KPK = Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

UNK = Unknown

PUN = Punjab

SIN = Sindh

BAN = Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan)

Religion & gender distribution of accused and killed over Blasphemy since 1947 – 2022

Females	Accused	Killed
Christian	63	11
Ahmadi	8	3
Sunni	48	4
Buddhist	0	1
Hindu	2	0
Unknown	7	0
Grand Total	128	19

Males	Accused	Killed
Sunni	667	40
Christian	177	19
Ahmadi	178	11
Hindu	19	1
Ismaili	0	1
Shia	361	2
Buddhist	1	0
Pervezi	0	0
Sikh	1	0
Unknown	54	0
Grand Total	1458	74

Religious communities accused/killed for Blasphemy since 1947 – 2022

Year	Sunni	Shia	Ahmadi	Christian	Hindu	Pervezi	Buddhist	Ismaili	Sikh	Unknown	Total
1947	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1948	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
1949	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1950	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
1951	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1952	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1953	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
1954	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1955	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1956	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1957	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1958	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1959	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
1960	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1961	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
1963	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
1964	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1965	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1966	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1967	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1968	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1969	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1970	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1971	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1972	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1973	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1974	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1975	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1976	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
1977	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1978	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
1979	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
1980	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1981	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1982	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1983	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1984	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1985	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1986	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1987	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
1988	2	0	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	10
1989	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
1990	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1991	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
1992	1	0	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	5
1993	0	0	6	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	8
1994	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4
1995	2	0	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	7
1996	3	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	5
1997	2	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	5
1998	2	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	5
1999	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
2000	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8
2001	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
2002	4	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	5
2003	5	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	8
2004	4	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	7
2005	9	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	13
2006	4	0	13	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	20
2007	5	0	0	19	0	0	0	0	0	0	24
2008	4	0	0	6	1	0	0	0	0	0	11
2009	10	0	5	15	1	0	0	0	0	0	31
2010	6	1	0	11	1	0	0	0	0	0	19
2011	87	1	6	14	1	0	1	0	0	0	110
2012	27	153	1	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	196
2013	16	0	22	5	0	0	1	0	0	0	44
2014	181	0	8	67	0	7	0	0	0	0	263
2015	25	0	10	13	0	0	0	1	1	0	50
2016	55	0	0	10	5	0	0	0	0	1	71
2017	46	2	11	12	3	0	0	0	0	4	78
2018	35	0	41	16	1	0	0	0	0	0	93
2019	67	0	7	11	3	0	0	0	0	0	88
2020	29	152	34	14	3	0	0	0	0	2	234
2021	42	2	0	9	2	0	0	0	0	6	61
2022	48	40	75	4	2	0	0	0	0	2	171
Total	744	351	263	268	23	7	2	1	1	15	1675

Gender-wise breakdown of the Blasphemy since 1947 – 2022

Year	Female	Male	Total
1947	0	0	0
1948	0	1	1
1949	0	0	0
1950	0	2	2
1951	0	0	0
1952	0	0	0
1953	0	1	1
1954	0	0	0
1955	0	0	0
1956	0	0	0
1957	0	0	0
1958	0	0	0
1959	0	1	1
1960	0	0	0
1961	0	0	0
1962	0	2	2
1963	0	1	1
1964	0	0	0
1965	0	0	0
1966	0	0	0
1967	0	0	0
1968	0	0	0
1969	0	0	0
1970	0	0	0
1971	0	0	0
1972	0	0	0
1973	0	0	0
1974	0	0	0
1975	0	0	0
1976	0	1	1
1977	0	0	0
1978	0	1	1
1979	0	1	1
1980	0	0	0
1981	0	0	0
1982	0	0	0
1983	0	0	0
1984	0	0	0
1985	0	0	0
1986	0	0	0
1987	0	2	2
1988	0	10	10
1989	0	1	1
1990	0	0	0
1991	0	3	3
1992	0	6	6
1993	0	8	8
1994	0	4	4
1995	0	7	7
1996	1	4	5
1997	0	5	5
1998	0	5	5
1999	1	2	3
2000	0	8	8
2001	0	1	1
2002	1	4	5
2003	1	7	8
2004	3	4	7
2005	0	13	13
2006	4	16	20
2007	13	11	24
2019	4	7	11
2020	9	22	31
2021	11	8	19
2022	8	102	110
2012	16	180	196
2013	5	39	44
2014	16	247	263
2019	3	47	50
2020	4	67	71
2021	2	76	78
2022	3	90	93
2019	4	84	88
2020	6	227	233
2021	10	51	61
2022	21	150	171
Total	146	1529	1675

Killings on Blasphemy charges since 1947 – 2022

Year	Sunni	Christian	Ahmadi	Buddhist	Hindu	Ismaili	Shia	Total
1948	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
1950	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	2
1992	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	4
1993	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
1994	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
1995	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	4
1997	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
1998	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
1999	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
2000	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
2001	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
2002	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
2003	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	4
2005	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
2006	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
2007	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
2008	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	3
2009	2	8	0	0	0	0	0	10
2010	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2
2011	6	2	1	1	0	0	0	10
2012	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	3
2014	3	2	5	0	0	0	0	10
2015	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	2
2016	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
2017	3	1	0	0	0	0	1	5
2018	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
2019	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
2020	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	4
2021	1	3	0	0	0	0	1	5
2022	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	4
Total	43	26	13	1	1	1	2	93