The Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights unanimously adopted a recommendation to establish a National Coordination Committee within the Ministry of Human Rights, with representation from all provinces and police departments. This was decided after the standing committee convened on Tuesday to address critical concerns regarding the misuse of blasphemy laws […]
On Friday, September 8, a First Information Report (FIR) on blasphemy charges against a Christian couple was registered at the North Cantt police station on the complaint of Muhammad Taimur. However contradictory details have surfaced, and the police have allegedly accepted being pressured by right-wing extremists into registering the FIR. Social […]
Four days after mobs attacked Christian neighborhoods in Jaranwala tehsil of Faisalabad district, burning churches and ransacking homes and businesses, a similar outrage over blasphemy allegations was narrowly averted in Sahiwal on Sunday, sources said. Bishop Abraham Daniel of the Sahiwal Baptist church said that tensions escalated in 186/9-L village when […]