Last month, the desecration and burning of the Quran in Stockholm, Sweden sparked worldwide condemnation. Pakistan witnessed widespread protests and termed the act as blasphemous and deeply damaging to the sentiments of the Muslim community. A banned extremist group in the country, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, labelled it as an attack by Christians on […]
A third accusation of blasphemy in less than a month compelled Christians to flee their homes in Sargodha on Sunday, sources said. Mobs blocked the main Sargodha-Faisalabad highway for hours on July 16 after mosque announcements urged people to protest posters allegedly bearing blasphemous caricatures and comments that were pasted on […]
Jhelum police have demolished minarets at an Ahmadi worship place after activists of a religious party threatened to storm the premises and destroy the structures themselves, an Ahmadi community spokesperson said. “The minarets of our worship place in Kala Gujran area of Jhelum district were razed on the night of July […]