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Grave human rights violations continue non-stop in Pakistan
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Grave human rights violations continued unabated, including enforced disappearances, torture, crackdowns on peaceful protests, attacks against journalists and violence against religious minorities and other marginalised groups in Pakistan, reported Amnesty International South Asia.
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Target killing of minorities continues unabated in Pakistan, Christian man
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
A Christian man was shot dead in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province on Saturday, in what officials say is the second incident of target killing of minorities in the last 24 hours, reported The Khorasan Diary.
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Pakistan: Content against minorities in textbooks has increased, says repo
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) issued the "Human Rights Observer 2023", an annual fact sheet. The report covers five key issues impacting religious minorities including discrimination in the education system, the prevalence of forced faith conversions, abuse of blasphemy laws, the estab
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Pakistan: Human Rights Observer report highlights increase in content agai
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) on Thursday issued the "Human Rights Observer 2023", an annual fact sheet. The report covers five key issues impacting religious minorities including discrimination in the education system, the prevalence of forced faith conversions, abuse of blasphemy law
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India slams Pakistan at UNHRC, warns against spreading propaganda, attempt
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Indian diplomat said that the democracy of India is mature enough to address any issues, including those instigated from outside. He said that minorities in Pakistan face blasphemy laws, systemic persecution, discrimination, denial of basic rights and freedoms, enforced disappearances and ki
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Pakistan: Mob storms Nankana Sahib police station, lynches man accused of
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Videos shared on social media showed hundreds of youngsters besieging the police compound, with one man scaling a tall gate using a ladder and opening its lock.
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Christians demand removal of Pak Religious Affairs Minister for promoting
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Christians in Pakistan have been facing systematic persecution as not only their churches were being targeted but also girls who are being kidnapped and forcibly converted to Islam.
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Blasphemy law amendment to create room for persecution: Pak rights group
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The HRCP said the proposed legislation increases the punishment for using derogatory remarks against "holy persons" from three years with a fine to imprisonment for life 'which will not be less than ten years'.
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Pak boy charged with blasphemy for calling god "cruel" on social media
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The danger of blasphemy laws in Pakistan is that blasphemy is not clearly defined, writes Marco Respinti for Bitter Winter. This latest case which last month is a clear example of this ambiguity.
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Canadian Minister responds to World Sindhi Congress petition about human r
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Canada's MP Garnett Genuis presented the petition in the parliament about the Notan Lal case, misuse of blasphemy law against minorities, abduction, and forced conversion of young girls.
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Pakistan: Law enforcement agencies tighten noose on blasphemers
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Law enforcement agencies in Pakistan are tightening the noose on blasphemers on social media and arresting people allegedly involved in this activity, The Nation, a daily newspaper based in Lahore, Pakistan, reported.
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Pak activists raise concern over custodial torture in blasphemy cases
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Joseph Jansen, chairperson of the rights group "Voice for Justice" said that the existing blasphemy laws did not guarantee a fair trial and religious freedom, and the accuser enjoyed impunity despite presenting false evidence and false testimony, the Dawn newspaper reported.
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