Tag: Desecration

  Pakistan on Friday recorded a strong protest with the Afghan government and closed the Bab-e-Dosti Gate at Chaman Border over desecration of the country’s...

Protesters of Tehreek Labbaik Ya Rasool Allah allege police personnel desecrated holy Quran, mosques in a raid on Peer Khadim Rizvi’s residence Both motorists and...

  People across the country took to the streets in thousands against the attack and desecration of the shrine of Hazrat Bibi Zainab (AS) in...

China on Monday said it looked forward to addressing the detention of its citizen for alleged desecration of the Holy Quran in Azad Kashmir...

Cleric who submitted evidence against a Christian girl accused of blasphemy has been arrested on suspicion of evidence-tampering, police said Sunday. Rimsha has been in...

At least three people were killed and several others injured as protesters went on a rampage over an alleged desecration of the Holy Quran...

Pakistan on Friday strongly condemned the desecration of Holy Quran at a US airbase in Afghanistan. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Abdul Basit said, it was important...

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The US Marine Corps said on Wednesday it would investigate a video showing what appear to be American forces in Afghanistan urinating on the bodies...

UNITED NATIONS - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned the desecration of the Holy Quran by pastors of a Baptist Church in Gainesville, Florida and said such actions cannot be condoned by any religion.
He said such actions contradict the efforts of the United Nations and many people around the world to promote tolerance, intercultural understanding and mutual respect between cultures and religions.
Terming this despicable and bigotry act

LAHORE - The Tehreek-e-Namoos-e-Risalat Mahaz (TNRM) on Tuesday held a protest outside the US Consulate against the desecration of the Holy Quran by Pastor Terry Jones and his accomplice. Seminary students, who were a majority of the protesters, denounced the apathy of the US, federal government and rulers of the Muslim countries over the issue.
They also burned the US flag on the occasion. "By burning the Holy Quran, Terry Jones has attacked the faith of 1.57 billion Muslims

LAHORE - The Lahore Bar Association (LBA) took out a rally on Friday to condemn the desecration of the Quran by Pastor Terry John. The protestors marched from Aiwan-e-Adl to GPO Chowk, The Mall, where they raised slogans condemning the incident and staged a sit-in. The protestors demanded the government approach the International Court of Justice for Jones's trial and burnt the effigy of the pastor. Earlier the LBA held a general-house meeting headed by LBA President Shahzad Hassan in

ISLAMABAD - Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Syed Munawar Hassan on Sunday asked the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) to convene a summit on the issue of desecration of Holy Quran and Namoos-e-Risalat in the backdrop of incident of burning a copy of Holy Quran by a US pastor.
Addressing a rally at the Blue Area in Islamabad, the JI chief also urged the government to convene an All Parties Conference on the issue. He condemned in the strongest term the incident of burning

SAHIWAL - The local Christian community took out a protest rally against Pastor Terry Jones to express solidarity with Muslims. The rally started from Main Church, Karbla Road, passing through the main bazaars, concluded at Jinnah Chowk where Christian leaders addressed the protesters.
They condemned the act of Terry Jones. They said the Pakistan government should take notice of it.
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FAISALABAD - "If the Arab world suspends the supply of petroleum to America and the West to protest the the desecration of the holy Quran, no body from the West will dare to repeat such a condemnable act in future," said Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Deputy Secretary General Dr Fareed Ahmed Paracha. He was addressing a rally outside Chiniot Bazaar held to condemn the desecration of the holy Quran by American pastor Terry Jones in Florida. Fareed Paracha said that instead of learning a lesson

New York - Reposing complete confidence in Ambassador Abdullah Hussain Haroon, Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations, the OIC decided that the Ambassador of Pakistan along with Ambassadors of Tajiskistan (OIC chair), Morocco (OIC Coordinator for Human Rights), Iran and Egypt would meet with the UN Secretary General to convey OIC's strong condemnation and ask him to take the lead towards promoting inter-faith harmony.
It was decided in OIC Ambassadorial

PESHAWAR/ISLAMABAD - Expressing anger and resentment over the desecration of holy Quran by US pastors Terry Jones and Wayne Sapp, various student organisations staged protest demonstrations against the act on Friday.
Condemning the incident, activists of Muslim Students Federation (MSF), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chapter, and Mukhtar Organisation, a Shia-backed group, gathered outside the cantonment railway station to register their protest. The rallies were led by KP MSF senior vice