Tag: Aasia bibi case

Police arrest 55 workers of religious parties ahead of Faizabad protest

--Religious parties had announced demonstrations against SC verdict of dismissing review petition against Aasia Bibi's acquittal  RAWALPINDI: Rawalpindi police launched a crackdown and arrested 55...

SC to hear review plea against Aasia Bibi’s acquittal on Jan...

--Petitioner urges top court to include members of Appellate Shariat Court  in bench that will review petition   LAHORE: The Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday fixed a...

SC orders compensation for victims of Aasia Bibi verdict protests within...

-- CJP says govt had 'no plans' to compensate the loss if court hadn't taken up case   LAHORE: The Supreme Court (SC) on Saturday ordered the...

Aasia Bibi’s family being hunted ‘house to house’

The family of Aasia Bibi, the Christian woman who spent eight years on death row for blasphemy before being acquitted earlier this month, claim...

Punjab suffered Rs260m loss during three-day TLP protests

ISLAMABAD: The Punjab government on Saturday submitted a report regarding the losses suffered during the protests by hard-line Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) following the Supreme...

Govt to foot the bill for Labbaik’s vandalism

--PM Imran directs Punjab govt to prepare compensation package for citizens     ISLAMABAD: The federal government on Wednesday decided to compensate citizens and members of civil society...

Police submit report to Interior Ministry over TLP’s KP protests

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Police on Wednesday submitted a report to the Ministry of Interior over protests that had engulfed the country in...

Italy working to help Aasia Bibi in blasphemy case

ROME: Italy has said that it is working to help relocate the family of a Pakistani Christian woman acquitted eight years after being sentenced...

Aasiya Bibi’s case a legal issue, dragging army into it unfortunate:...

DG ISPR says army will play its constitutional role if requested by the government   ISLAMABAD: Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General (DG) Major General...

Provinces paid no heed to center’s security warnings ahead of TLP’s...

The federal government had warned provincial governments of protests and violent demonstrations by the far-right group Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) ahead of the announcement of...

Aasiya Bibi case: An explainer

ISLAMABAD: A three-member Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar on Wednesday set aside Aasiya Bibi’s death sentence in a historic...

Traffic jam in Islamabad as TLP workers stage sit-in

ISLAMABAD: Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) workers on Wednesday staged sit-ins against the acquittal of Christian blasphemy convict Aasia Bibi in various parts of Islamabad and that...

Labbaik trashes govt’s writ

--TLP holds protests against Aasiya Bibi's acquittal across province in violation of Section-144 --Commuters suffer amid traffic gridlocks on major roads of city LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf...

TLP’s protests choke traffic in Karachi

KARACHI: Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) workers staged protests against the acquittal of Christian blasphemy convict Aasia Bibi on Wednesday that caused massive traffic jams in various...

Family prays for Aasia Bibi’s freedom

LAHORE: The family of Asia Bibi, a Christian mother who faces becoming the first person to be executed for blasphemy in Pakistan, said they...