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Pakistan's Human Rights Commission expresses concern over increasing mob v
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], July 25 (ANI): Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Sunday expressed grave concerns over the increasing mob violence in the country citing a recent case in Karachi where a man was beaten and later shot dead by a crowd on suspicion of robbery.
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Pakistan witnesses rise in blasphemy cases
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 22 (ANI): The cases of blasphemy are once again on the rise in Pakistan, with regular targeting of religious minorities and multinational products in the market, on trumped-up charges.
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PTI leader files petition in IHC against blasphemy cases
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 2 (ANI): Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf's (PTI) leader Fawad Chaudhry filed a written petition in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday requesting that blasphemy cases registered against the party's leadership be declared "illegal".
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Bigotry towards minorities defames Pakistan: SC on Lahore HC's blasphemy o
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 27 (ANI): Pakistan Supreme Court observed that the bigoted behaviour towards minorities has given the wrong impression of Pakistan, labelled the people of Pakistan as intolerant, dogmatic and rigid as it overturned a Lahore High Court order, which had endorsed the
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Blasphemy case registered against prayer leader in Pakistan's Punjab provi
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Punjab [Pakistan], March 12 (ANI): Pressure from extremist elements in Pakistan have led to a sharp rise in blasphemy cases and a case was registered on Friday against the prayer leader of a mosque for allegedly uttering blasphemous words in his speech against religious figures, local media
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UK report says Pak Muslim men target minority girls for forced
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], December 23 (ANI): Pakistan Muslim men target minority girls for forced marriage and push them into prostitution forcibly as observed by the UK parliamentary panel report.
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European members of parliament seek Pak EU envoy's intervention for releas
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], July 14 (ANI): Several members of European parliament have written to Zaheer Aslam Janjus, ambassador of Pakistan to the European Union, seeking his intervention in an alleged blasphemy case against Shahzad Masih so that the accused is released and compensation is given t
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EU expresses concern over rising blasphemy cases in Pakistan
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], April 30 (ANI): The European Union has raised concerns over Pakistan's harsh blasphemy laws as they are "often misused to silence opponents and their defenders and to discriminate against religious minorities" and pointed Ahmadi Muslims are probably the most at risk.
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Booking a Hindu school teacher in false blasphemy case is politically moti
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Sept 16 (ANI): Sindhi activists have said that the Hindu school principal who was booked in a false blasphemy case was "politically motivated" and this case is linked to "our overall systematic suppression and bullying of Hindu Sindhis in the region."
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Pak: Hindu principal booked in false blasphemy case; mob vandalise school
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Ghotki (Sindh) [India], Sept 15 (ANI): Hundreds of protesters ran amok in Pakistan's Sindh province after the principal of a school, belonging to the minority Hindu community, was falsely accused of blasphemy and booked in the matter.
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Pakistan top court upholds acquittal of Asia Bibi in blasphemy case
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad (Pakistan), Jan 29 (ANI): The Pakistan Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition seeking review of the top court's verdict acquitting Asia Bibi, a Christian woman who spent eight years on death row in a blasphemy case.
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EU politicians demand safe passage for Asiya Bibi
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Brussels [ Belgium], Nov 10 (ANI): In a letter to Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan the Members of European Parliament have expressed concern over the threats to Asiya Bibi (Aasiya Noreen), who was recently acquitted by Pakistan's Supreme Court in a Blasphemy Case.
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