Pakistan Blasphemy

Nationwide strike in Bangladesh to protest crackdown on Islamists

Associated Press | Wednesday May 8, 2013

Thousands of security officers patrolled the streets of Bangladesh's capital on Wednesday trying to prevent violence during a general strike called by 18 opposition parties.

50 arrested over raid on Christian colony in Pakistan

Press Trust of India | Sunday March 10, 2013

About 50 people have been arrested in eastern Pakistani city after a mob torched over 150 homes of the minority Christian community in search of an alleged blasphemer.

Mob in Pakistan raids Christian colony in search of blasphemer

Press Trust of India | Saturday March 9, 2013

A mob went on the rampage in a Christian-dominated neighbourhood in this eastern Pakistani city on Saturday following reports that a Christian man had committed blasphemy, burning scores of houses and driving out about 150 families.

Three shot dead in Bangladesh protest over bloggers

Agence France-Presse | Sunday February 24, 2013

Bangladesh police fired live rounds on Sunday in clashes with Islamists demanding the execution of bloggers they accuse of blasphemy, killing at least three protesters and injuring dozens.

Pakistan ambassador to US faces blasphemy probe

Agence France-Presse | Thursday February 21, 2013

Pakistan police are investigating the country's ambassador to the United States for allegedly committing blasphemy in a television show three years ago, officers said on Thursday.

Pakistan mob burns man accused of desecrating Quran alive

Reuters | Saturday December 22, 2012

A mob broke into a Pakistani police station and burnt a man accused of desecrating the Quran alive, police said Saturday, in the latest violence focusing attention on the country's blasphemy laws.

Pakistani police arrest professor on blasphemy charge

Press Trust of India | Monday December 10, 2012

Police in the Pakistani capital have arrested a professor on a charge of blasphemy after hundreds of people, including clerics and seminary students, joined a protest and demanded the registration of a case against him.

Pakistan court acquits Christian girl of blasphemy

Associated Press | Tuesday November 20, 2012

A Pakistani court on Tuesday acquitted the Christian girl who was accused of blasphemy over the burning of the Muslim holy book in August this year.

Pakistan quashes Christian girl 'blasphemy' case: lawyers

Agence France-Presse | Tuesday November 20, 2012

A Pakistan court on Tuesday threw out all charges against a Christian girl accused of blasphemy in a case that drew international condemnation, lawyers said.

Pakistan 'blasphemy school' headteacher released on bail

Agence France-Presse | Wednesday November 14, 2012

A Pakistani headteacher caught in a blasphemy row over a piece of homework allegedly containing derogatory references to the prophet Mohammed was on Wednesday released on bail, his lawyer said.

Pakistan religious party leader doubts Malala attack

Agence France-Presse | Monday November 5, 2012

The leader of Pakistan's largest religious political party has cast doubt on the Taliban shooting of schoolgirl activist Malala Yousufzai, saying he did not believe she was hit in the head.

Pakistan 'blasphemy' teacher in hiding

Agence France-Presse | Friday November 2, 2012

A Pakistani teacher at the centre of a blasphemy row was in hiding on Friday as her school management denied all responsibility for the "dirty act" and called for her to be punished.

Teen boy in Pakistan accused of blasphemy via text messages

Press Trust of India | Thursday October 11, 2012

A mob led by Islamic clerics ransacked the home of a teenage Christian boy in Pakistan's Karachi city and set fire to furniture and some other household articles after he was accused of sending text messages with blasphemous content, a media report s...

Witnesses in Pakistan blasphemy case turn hostile

Press Trust of India | Monday October 1, 2012

The three men who had accused a cleric of tampering evidence to implicate young Christian girl Rimsha Masih in a blasphemy case withdrew their statement on Monday, claiming they were tortured by police to testify against the imam.

In twist for Pakistan, Muslims accused of blasphemy after temple is ransacked

Associated Press | Monday October 1, 2012

Pakistan's blasphemy laws may be used to punish Muslims suspected of ransacking a Hindu temple, an intriguing twist for a country where harsh laws governing religious insults are primarily used against supposed offenses to Islam, not minority faiths....