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Pakistan clerics, traders in anti-blasphemy protests
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa [Pakistan], September 3 (ANI) Religious groups and traders in Pakistan jointly protested against the alleged blasphemy on Friday in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and announced that they won't allow lawyers to appear for the suspect in court.
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Pakistan: Ex-security personnel arrested over blasphemy in KP
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa [Pakistan], September 2 (ANI): Amid rising cases of blasphemy in Pakistan, one security personnel was sent to judicial remand in Battagram district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on the charges of making anti-Islamic remarks during an altercation with employees of the district poli
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Pakistan judge laments generals, politicians have misused Jinnah
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], August 26 (ANI): A judge of Pakistan's Supreme Court has lamented that generals and politicians have often misquoted and misused the country's founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah's declarations to emphasise equal rights for people of all faiths.
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Pak Hindu families forced to relocate amid blasphemy furore
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Hyderabad [Pakistan], August 23 (ANI): All Hindu families living in a six-storey building were forced to leave their apartments after an enraged mob attacked the building while trying to get hold of a man belonging to the Hindu minority community who was booked in an alleged case of blasp
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Pakistan uses blasphemy laws to persecute its minorities
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], August 23 (ANI): The minorities in Pakistan are constantly being murdered and subjected to inhuman brutalities in the name of blasphemy, conversion to Islam and other sectarian differences.
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Pakistan: Police resort to tear gas shelling after angry mob creates unres
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Hyderabad [Pakistan], August 22 (ANI): Law enforcement agencies resorted to tear gas shelling and fired into the air in different areas of Hyderabad on Sunday after an enraged mob tried to get hold of a sanitary worker, belonging to the Hindu minority community booked in a fake case of blasp
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Hindu man faces blasphemy charges in Pakistan: Report
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Hyderabad [Pakistan], August 22 (ANI): Over a personal clash with a local resident in Pakistan's Hyderabad, a man, belonging to minority Hindu community, was reportedly booked in a fake case of blasphemy on Sunday, several media reports said.
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Persecution of minorities under blasphemy continues in Pakistan
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], July 27 (ANI): The targeting of religious minorities has been continuing in Pakistan under blasphemy as a large number of innocent persons who have lost their lives, homes and their terrorized families dispersed, according to media reports.
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Pakistan's Human Rights Commission expresses concern over increasing mob v
Updated : 3 years, 8 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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Taliban tortures Afghanistan's Youtubers Ajmal Haqiqi and his team: Source
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 23 (ANI): A video has gone viral on social media, which shows the Taliban torturing Youtubers Ajmal Haqiqi and his team, according to sources.
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Pakistan witnesses rise in blasphemy cases
Updated : 3 years, 8 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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International Religious Freedom confronts Pakistan over persecution of Ahm
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 12 (ANI): International Religious Freedom (IRF) Summit which was organized in Washington confronted Pakistan on the global platform over the persecution of the Ahmadiyya community in the country.
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