In a deeply troubling incident, a 60-year-old Catholic man, Amir Masih, found himself ensnared in a nightmare, facing charges of blasphemy after a simple argument over groceries spiraled into a dangerous false accusation. On July 19, Peter went to a shop in Lahore’s Nishat Colony, intending to purchase a few daily […]
In the grainy footage that now haunts Pakistan’s digital conscience, a woman walks steadily through a barren landscape. She is not fleeing. She is not pleading. She is walking toward death. Her name was Bano Satgzai, and beside her stood Ehsan Samalani—the man she had married of her own free will. […]
On Tuesday, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) directed the federal government to form a commission within 30 days to investigate the alleged misuse of the blasphemy law. This decision came during a hearing of a case that called for the creation of a commission to examine the controversial application of the […]