LAHORE: A sessions court on Wednesday granted post-arrest bail to a Christian couple who were arrested on charges of desecrating the Holy Quran. The couple, Kiran Bibi and her husband Shoukat Masih, were accused of throwing torn pieces of the Quran from the roof of their house in the North Cantonment […]
Unwarranted activism on social media in the case of a pastor charged with faking an assassination attempt has diverted attention from persecution in the Jaranwala riots and endorsed claims of hardline groups that Christians were exploiting blasphemy cases to find asylum in Western countries, sources said. Faisalabad police on Friday (Sept […]
In a heart-wrenching case that exemplifies the dire plight faced by religious minorities in Pakistan, Masheel Rasheed, a 16-year-old Christian girl, was abducted, subjected to sexual assault, forcibly converted to Islam, and married to Abdul Sattar, her abductor. Masheel Rasheed is the youngest daughter of Rasheed Masih, the sole Christian family […]