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One year since Jaranwala attack, Pak minority Christians await justice
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
The report released by the human rights watchdog commemorating the completion of one year of Pakistan's Jaranwala incident highlights that over 90 per cent of the suspects are still at large and trials have not started, leaving the Christian community in fear.
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Pakistan: Rights body welcomes post-arrest bail of pastor facing blasphemy
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
The post-arrest bail of Pastor Eliezer aka Vicky with Johnson Masih and Gulfam Masih is welcomed by Human Rights Focus Pakistan (HRFP).
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Rights Body in Pakistan rejects police narrative on Jaranwala blasphemy ca
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Naveed Walter, president of Human Rights Focus Pakistan (HRFP), said that police have made fake reports on Jaranwala’s blasphemy incidents. “We reject both versions of police, first of foreign conspiracy just after the incident dated 16 August and now of honour crime to personal interests,”
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Pakistan: Supreme Court to take Jaranwala blasphemy case today
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
The Jaranwala incident took place on August 16 where a crowd vandalised over 21 churches and set more than a hundred houses in Jaranwala on fire after clerics made announcements in the mosques inciting the mob to attack the Christian community under allegations of blasphemy.
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Pakistan: Human rights body condemns attack on Christians in Jaranwala inc
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Human Rights Focus Pakistan (HRFP) strongly condemned the attack on churches and Christians in Pakistan in the Jaranwala violence.
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Christian Alliance stages protest against Pakistan over Jaranwala Incident
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
The protesters expressed grave concerns over the religious freedom violations and stifling state of freedom of expression in Pakistan and called upon the European Union to assess Pakistan’s compliance with its human rights obligations before extending its Generalized System of Preferences (G
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Overseas Pakistanis urge President Alvi to punish those involved in Jaranw
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
The Overseas Pakistani Christian Alliance (OPCA) condemned the Jaranwala incident in which 19 churches and multiple houses were gutted in a suspected arson by a mob and urged the government to punish those who are responsible for this crime.
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Why Imran Khan’s case is only the beginning of Pakistan’s democratic woes:
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
The political crackdown on former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan by the establishment holds no surprise, as the country’s “democratic backsliding” goes further than the embattled former prime minister, journalist and author Lynne O’Donnell, stated in her piece in Foreign Policy.
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Pakistan: Delegation from Christian community calls on Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
A delegation from Pakistan’s Christian community called on the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Haji Ghulam over the Jaranwala incident in which 19 churches and multiple houses were gutted in a suspected arson by a mob, Radio Pakistan reported on Monday.
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Pakistan's Jaranwala violence: 19 churches gutted, says human rights repor
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Human Rights Focus Pakistan (HRFP) has issued a fact-finding report on the Jaranwala incident and revealed that 19 Churches have been burnt fully and 89 Christian houses were burnt.
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Jaranwala incident: Suspect who posted "blasphemous" content arrested
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
In a major development in the Jaranwala incident, in which multiple churches were vandalised and houses were torched, the suspect who allegedly posted the “blasphemous” content online has been arrested, ARY News reported on Sunday.
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Pakistan: Religious leaders seek judicial probe into Jaranwala violence
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Ijaz Alam Augustine while addressing the press conference condemned the heinous incident and said that the Christian community is very sad all over the world. We have a question from the Punjab government when the miscreants first acted at 5 in the morning, why did the police and the adminis
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