Tag: blasphemy

Court stays proceedings in Jamshoro ‘blasphemy’ case

Two-member division bench restrains police from making any arrests A division bench of the Sindh High Court's Hyderabad circuit on Friday stayed the proceedings...

Christian sentenced to death over ‘blasphemous’ WhatsApp text

Nadeem James was charged in July last year after his Muslim friend Yasir Bashir complained to the police that he received a poem on the messaging app that was derogatory toward the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and other holy figures.

Hub police refuse to hand ‘blasphemy’ suspect to mob

With arrest of 20 protesters, local police disperse crowd, using tear gas shelling, aerial firing A 13-year-old boy died in aerial firing after violence...

LHC frees man accused of blasphemy after five years

CHAKWAL: The Rawalpindi bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) has acquitted a man sentenced to death over blasphemy charges, after accepting his appeal...

Sunni Tehreek demands police charge Shaan Taseer with blasphemy

A Christmas message calling for prayers for those charged under Pakistan's blasphemy laws has led to death threats against the son of a provincial...

Fatwa, police case against Shaan Taseer for ‘hate speech’ on Christmas

Police the other day registered a case against Shaan Taseer, son of slain Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer, for alleged ‘hate speech’ after he sent...

Indonesia police pursue blasphemy case against Christian governor as tension simmers

Indonesian police said on Wednesday they will go ahead with an investigation into a blasphemy complaint brought by Muslim groups against the Christian and...

Christian charged with blasphemy over WhatsApp poem

A Christian man was charged with blasphemy in Lahore on Monday after his Muslim friend alleged he had sent a poem on WhatsApp that insulted Islam, police said.

Christian man, his accusers, sentenced to death for ‘blasphemy’

Anjum Naz Sindhu, 65-year-old owner of a prominent chain of schools in Gujranwala, received the death sentence following conviction for blasphemy – as did the two men convicted of blackmailing him

Anti-state violence in Pakistan fell below 2008 levels in 2015: report

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan in its 'State of Human Rights in 2015 report' found that anti-state violence in Pakistan over the past...

Junaid Jamshed assaulted by angry mob over alleged blasphemy

  Former singer, proselyte Junaid Jamshed was assaulted by a group of men at Islamabad airport late Saturday night. A video has gone viral on social...