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TLP echoes extremist narratives in Pakistan after Lankan man's lynching ov
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], January 6 (ANI): Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) Divisional President Abid Raza Qadri said that Mumtaz Raza Qadri, security personnel, who had assassinated Punjab governor Salman Taseer over blasphemy row, has spoken the heart of the entire Muslim world, reported Pakis
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Pakistan man gets death sentence for blasphemy
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], December 24 (ANI): A local Pakistan court has convicted a man hailing from Charsadda district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of committing blasphemy through uploading a video on the internet and sentenced him to death.
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UK report says Pak Muslim men target minority girls for forced
Updated : 4 years, 3 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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Man arrested on blasphemy charge in Pakistan's Punjab province
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Punjab [Pakistan], December 21 (ANI): Police arrested a man in Pakistan's Punjab province for allegedly making disparaging remarks against a companion of the Prophet, local media reported.
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Pakistan: Sialkot incident symptom of underlying cancer, says expert
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], December 17 (ANI): The Sialkot incident, where the Islamist mob accused a Sri Lankan factory manager Priyantha Kumara Diyawadana of blasphemy and then burnt his dead body, shows that what happened in Sialkot is a symptom of underlying cancer which has metastasised to di
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Pakistan incapable of reforming, stepping back from Islamist path, says ex
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], December 15 (ANI): The Sialkot incident, where the Islamist mob accused a Sri Lankan factory manager Priyantha Kumara Diyawadana of blasphemy and then burnt his dead body, shows that Pakistan is incapable of reforming and stepping back from the Islamist path it embarked
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Lynching of Sri Lankan national points to rise of religion-based hatred vi
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], December 14 (ANI): The lynching of Sri Lankan national Priyantha Kumara in Pakistan over blasphemy allegations by a hardline mob has signalled the rise of religion-based hatred violence in the country, according to a report.
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Sialkot lynching: Killing over 'unsubstantiated blasphemy claims' not perm
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], December 11 (ANI): Muslim scholars in Pakistan speaking about the Sialkot lynching said the killing of any person over "unsubstantiated blasphemy accusations" is not permissible.
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Pak blasphemy laws embolden mobs to carry out vigilante justice: Journalis
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 9 (ANI): The brutal murder of a Sri Lankan national in Pakistan's Punjab has drawn condemnation from all around the world and has highlighted the rise of the misuse of the blasphemy law to carry out vigilante justice in Pakistan.
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Blasphemy convict acquitted by Pak court after 11 years
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], December 9 (ANI): A Pakistan court has acquitted a man after 11 years after it set aside life imprisonment awarded to him by a trial court on charges of blasphemy.
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Religious extremism, Blasphemy laws further dent Pakistan's image
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], December 9 (ANI): Pakistan's international image has been diminished further by growing religious intolerance in the country and how Blasphemy laws are adding to it
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Sri Lankan national killed in Pakistan was tortured to an extreme degree,
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], December 5 (ANI): A Sri Lankan factory manager, who was killed by a mob in Pakistan over alleged blasphemy, was tortured to an extreme degree and his skull and other bones of the body also had severe damage, the post-mortem report revealed, reported local media.
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