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The Pakistani Government has denied that the blasphemy law is being used to target religious minorities in Pakistan. Interior Minister…

An elderly Pakistani Christian is in a perilous situation after blasphemy accusations were levelled against him. Seventy-year-old, Mukhtar Masih of…

Pakistani Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has said there there will be no compromise on the dignity and respect of the…

A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has cleared 115 people of being involved in the torching of Christians’ houses in Joseph Colony,…

A 22-year-old Christian mother-of-two, Shazia, has managed to escape from her Muslim kidnappers after a year. Shazia got married labourer…

A Christian woman was raped when a local influential Muslim Anna three others forced their way into her home whiles…

CLAAS has welcomed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s speech delivered at the inauguration of a water filtration plant at Katas Raj…

A Senate committee will debate how to prevent Pakistan’s blasphemy laws being misused, despite opposition from religious groups who support…

Following the advice of Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah, Governor Sindh Saeeduzzaman Siddiqi on Friday rejected the controversial bill…

Babu Shahbaz, a Christian form Kamahan village, Lahore has been arrested by police after allegedly committing blasphemy. On December 30,…

While the rest of the world was busy celebrating the new year, Pakistan’s land mafia and Sukkur police were planning…

The Council of Common Interest (CCI) decided that a census will begin in Pakistan on March 15, 2017, and will…