Tag: persecution

--Raiwind bishop says 1,400 incidents of Christian persecution reported since BJP govt took power in India --Pakistani Christians demand immediate lifting of curfew and lockdown...

--Around 60% non-Muslim students feel being discriminated and disrespected --70% of non-Muslim teachers faced discrimination based on their faith   ISLAMABAD: Alarming discrimination in educational institutions based on...

QUETTA: Two senior aides of Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday succeeded in persuading the protesting Hazara Shia community members to end their four-day-long sit-in...

--Interior Minister Afridi says govt will follow orders of the Supreme Court in the high-profile blasphemy case --Says govt providing security to Aasia Bibi and...

Former prime minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf has denied that his brother is involved in an attack on the house of a poor Christian family...

LAHORE: A Christian girl who was set ablaze by a Muslim man in Sialkot for “refusing to renounce her faith and marry him” passed away...

--Sialkot’s Rizwan Gujjar torched Asma using petrol after she refused to renounce her faith and marry him   LAHORE: A Christian girl was set ablaze by a...

ISLAMABAD: Rights activists in Pakistan expressed concern Sunday over a court ruling that would require people to declare their religion on all official documents,...

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...

Stunning mini-revolutions have erupted in recent months in two of the world’s largest Muslim countries. The first shock came in Indonesia, where a little-known...

QUETTA: Ali Haris dreamed of getting a college degree and a well-paid job. Instead, he had to quit his education after high school. Going...

The Punjab law minister said that all other minority communities are enjoying equal status as citizens of Pakistan and "so will the Ahmedis if they admit to the fact that they are not Muslims and are a religious minority".

LAHORE: While expressing his displeasure over the recent diatribe by Captain Muhammad Safdar in the National Assembly (NA) in which he launched a verbal attack on the Ahmedi...

The prize — awarded every year by the European Parliament — was set up in 1988 to honour individuals and organisations defending human rights and fundamental freedoms.

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.

At the hospital, classmates of Sharoon told family members that student Ahmed Raza started a fight with Sharoon because the Christian had drunk water from a glass used by all students – an act Muslims may hold in disdain as they regard Christians as “unclean”.

LAHORE: Banners inciting religious hatred have been put up in several areas of the provincial capital, singling out Ahmedis and congratulating the entire Muslim...