Tag: blasphemy

--Court notes it's not for individuals or mobs to decide if any act falls under Section-295-C  --Justice Khosa says mixing truth with falsehood in name...

ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office (FO) on Thursday lodged a strong protest with the Dutch ambassador over the blasphemous tweets by Dutch Parliamentarian Geert Wilders. According to...

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Religious Affairs Noorul Haq Qadri has reiterated Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government stance to protect blasphemy laws (295-C of the PPC) and...

--Court questions validity of investigation in case  --TLYR threatens strong retaliation if Bibi released   ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) on Monday reserved its verdict in the...

A sessions court fined and then sentenced a man to death in a blasphemy case. Additional District and Sessions Court Judge Raja Safder Iqbal heard...

Amendments need presidential approval, as Legislative Assembly passes Bill CHANDIGARH: India’s Punjab Legislative Assembly on Tuesday unanimously passed Bills for an amendment to the Indian...

ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office (FO) on Monday called the charge d'affaires of Netherlands to record protest against the "announcement by the leader of Dutch...

Family, friends accuse police of ‘covering up incident’ LAHORE: Family of a Sindhi artist Qutub Rind has claimed that he was killed under "false charges...

Mirpurkhas Police on Wednesday booked a teenage Hindu boy for allegedly posting blasphemous content on social media. The boy was arrested and sent on a...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has approached the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to lodge a protest against a cartoon competition in the Netherlands suggested by anti-Islam...

LAHORE: Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar on Saturday announced that he would hear Christian blasphemy convict Aasia Bibi’s appeal against her death sentence and...

 MARDAN: On this day exactly one year ago, Mashal Khan was brutally murdered by a mob over false blasphemy allegations. One person has been sentenced to...

LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Lahore on Saturday exonerated 20 people who were accused of lynching and burning alive a Christian couple, Shahzad...

SIALKOT: A 42-year-old woman, suspected of committing blasphemy, was arrested in Sialkot on Sunday, according to a local English daily. According to the publication, however,...

ISLAMABAD: A Senate Special Committee on Human Rights on Tuesday recommended that anyone falsely accusing someone of blasphemy should be subjected to the same...

Protesters demand probe of alleged sexual abuse by FIA personnel, concrete steps to stop the misuse of blasphemy law against religious minorities   LAHORE: The Pakistan Christian...

LAHORE: A suspect in a blasphemy case, who jumped from the fourth floor of the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) Punjab headquarters building during investigation...