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Consigned to jobs in sanitation and other hazardous fields, Christians, the largest religious minority group in Pakistan, face a difficult time in the country.
Two Christian Pakistani teenagers, one 18 and another 14, were arrested in their homes in Lahore in May 2023 on charges of blasphemy (...)
On August 2, in a landmark verdict of a Christian sanitary worker’s bail decision, the Supreme Court (SC) of Pakistan declared that preaching Christianity is not a crime in Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The apex court showed its concern about the accused persons in blasphemy cases, and advised (...)
Early morning on 29 March, three female Muslim teachers of an Islamic seminary slaughtered their colleague over alleged blasphemy allegations in Dera Ismail Khan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan.
In the name of religion, violent incidents have been occurring in Pakistan now and (...)
Concerns expressed over growing human rights violations
Release Yousaf Masti and all other political prisoners in Pakistan
JKAWP human rights conference held in Rawalpindi
Rawalpindi (Press Release)
Political and human rights activists from Pakistan, Azad Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan (...)
18 October 2021: Religious minorities in Pakistan criticised Prime Minister Imran Khan’s government for rejecting the proposed ‘Prohibition of Forced Conversion Bill.’ The bill provides protection to Hindu and Christian minor girls from kidnapping, forced conversion and forced marriages. The (...)
For the third time, the cabinet has approved a draft of social media rules titled the ‘Removal and Blocking of Unlawful Content Rules 2021’ to govern (read: censor) content on social media in Pakistan. The utility of social media as the last fortress of citizens to express themselves with (...)
Hindu boy faces possible death penalty after being accused of intentionally urinating in a madrassa library.
An eight-year-old Hindu boy is being held in protective police custody in east Pakistan after becoming the youngest person ever to be charged with blasphemy in the country.
The (...)
THE government’s decision to establish a commission “for implementation of national narrative and development of structures against violent extremism and radicalisation” is a significant move towards countering violent extremism (CVE) and terrorism (CT) in the long term. In a meeting last (...)
Chemical castration is no remedy for curbing sexual violence, any more than is public hanging, which an enraged citizenry has been increasingly demanding as punishment for rapists. The procedure does, however, give the impression of being proactive. It could silence those who believe the (...)
THAT prisons in Pakistan are overcrowded is no secret. Prisons being unsanitary and disease-ridden is another familiar story across the country. Prisoners living in difficult conditions is a known but easily forgettable fact. Prisons are kept out of sight, and prisoners even more so. In a (...)
International Human Rights Commission (IHRC-HK) appeal to the government of Pakistan to immediately release Mr. Junaid Hafeez who is languishing in Multan, Punjab, prison for more than five years on the baseless charges of blasphemy. His case is a typical example of miscarriage of justice (...)
Pakistan’s blasphemy law needs to be sentenced to death — not so-called ‘blasphemers.’
On Saturday, Multan-based academic Junaid Hafeez became the latest to be given the death sentence for blasphemy in Pakistan.
The 33-year-old former lecturer at Bahauddin Zakariya University had been (...)
Amnesty calls verdict in Junaid Hafeez’s trial a ‘vile and gross miscarriage of justice’
A Pakistani university lecturer has been sentenced to death for blasphemy in a case that his family and human rights groups have decried as a gross miscarriage of justice.
Junaid Hafeez, a lecturer at (...)
A district and sessions court in Multan on Saturday sentenced Junaid Hafeez, a former university lecturer, to death on blasphemy charges.
Formerly a visiting lecturer at the Department of English Literature of the Bahauddin Zakariya University (BZU), Multan, Hafeez was booked on blasphemy (...)
What is the price of 18 years of one’s life spent on death row, despite being innocent of the crime that put one there? On Wednesday, the Supreme Court acquitted Wajih-ul-Hassan of blasphemy for which he had been sentenced to capital punishment in 2002. The court ruled that the prosecution was (...)
There have been many ineffective campaigns against deaths in police custody in the past, and we should like to hope that the present public outrage will lead to some concrete steps to rid the country’s criminal justice system of one of its major flaws.
The signs, though, are not very (...)
Blasphemy laws are the most controversial laws in Pakistan, which have been affecting many individuals and communities’ lives, especially religious minorities, since the 980s. Asia Bibi’s, Christian women and mother of five, high-profile case once again shows how these laws have been misused (...)
Farhatullah Babar urges the Senate to take the conversation on blasphemy law forward.
The acquittal by the Supreme Court of Aasia Bibi last week – after she spent years on death row on false blasphemy charges – has brought into focus once again the issue of misuse of blasphemy law in (...)
Administration accused of signing Bibi’s ‘death warrant’ in deal with hardliners.
Pakistan’s government has been accused of signing the “death warrant” of Asia Bibi after it said it would begin the process of preventing her leaving the country.
Bibi, a Christian farm labourer, was (...)
Lahore, 1 November 2018. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has greatly welcomed the Supreme Court’s landmark judgement acquitting 47-year-old Aasia Bibi, a Christian woman convicted of blasphemy in 2010 and sentenced to death. In a statement issued today, HRCP has said:
’While (...)
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