Pakistan’s top judge says he’ll hear Asia Bibi’s appeal personally – and ‘soon’
World Watch Monitor Pakistan’s chief justice says he will decide, “soon,” the fate of Aasiya Noreen, a Christian woman whose 2009 conviction on blasphemy charges has fixated world attention on the country’s treatment of religious minorities. Chief Justice Saqib Nisar told Noreen’s lawyer, Saif-ul-Malook, on 21st April that he would hear the woman’s appeal. Ms […]
“Extremists given a free hand” – Human Rights Commission of Pakistan
World Watch Monitor Two Pakistani Christians were killed and at least three injured in a drive-by shooting on Sunday in Essa Nagri, a Christian-majority area in Quetta, capital of the impoverished Balochistan province in the south-west. The victims, aged 19 and 28, had just left a Seventh-day Adventist church service when they were gunned down […]
Pakistani Christian says daughter, 12, abducted, forced to convert to Islam and marry
World Watch Monitor A 12-year-old Pakistani Christian girl, who disappeared in November, was abducted, forced to convert to Islam and marry her abductor, according to her father. Elisha, daughter of Iqbal Masih, appeared in the High Court in Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital, on Thursday, where she introduced herself by a new Muslim name but told the […]