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 […]
Police have arrested a Christian on blasphemy charges for allegedly sharing a post on Facebook despite opposition from the Imam of the village mosque and other Muslims who said the post was not against Islam, his family said. Wasim Masih said that Sargodha police registered a case against his younger brother […]