A court on Tuesday acquitted two Christian youths of a false blasphemy charge rooted in a minor dispute, their lawyer said ...

Karachi, Pakistan — Police in southern Pakistan shot dead a blasphemy suspect during an alleged shootout with armed men, officials said Thursday, the second such apparent extra-judicial killing ...

The Sindh Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has warned that repeated blasphemy accusations based on unverified social media content risks 'provoking violence and destabilising communal peace.'The ...

Blasphemy is taken seriously in the country, ... At least 330 people, mostly Muslims, were charged in 180 blasphemy cases last year. Although Pakistan has never executed anyone for blasphemy, ...

The 29-page report, “‘A Conspiracy to Grab the Land’: Exploiting Pakistan’s Blasphemy Laws for Blackmail and Profit,” documents the use of blasphemy accusations for personal economic ...

“Pakistan’s blasphemy laws are indefensible to begin with but it is outrageous beyond belief that the Pakistani government was incapable of keeping an individual from being murdered within a ...

In Pakistan, the military dictator Muhammad Zia ul-Haq, who ruled the country from 1978-88, updated blasphemy laws — written by British colonizers to avoid interreligious conflict — to defend ...

Reporting from Nankana Sahib, Pakistan — Muslim cleric Muhammad Salim isn’t worried that a court or Pakistan’s president might spare a Christian woman from this village who has been ...

Pakistan’s blasphemy law victimizes all Pakistanis, Muslim and non-Muslim alike, but with the most severe impact on minorities. Reform or repeal is desperately needed.

Over the past 30 years, under Pakistan’s laws criminalizing blasphemy against Islam, hundreds of Christians, Ahmadis, Hindus, Sikhs, and unorthodox and reformist Muslims have been tried and ...

On Jan. 17, Pakistan’s National Assembly unanimously voted to expand the country’s laws on blasphemy, which carries the death penalty for insulting the Prophet Muhammad. The new law now extends ...

Karachi, Pakistan — Police in southern Pakistan shot dead a blasphemy suspect during an alleged shootout with armed men, officials said Thursday, the second such apparent extra-judicial killing ...