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 […]
The Senate of Pakistan has approved a bill seeking to increase the punishment for using derogatory remarks against revered personalities — including the Holy Prophet’s family, wives and companions, and the four caliphs — from three years of imprisonment to at least 10 years in jail. The bill, titled The Criminal […]