Pakistani court grants bail to Christian in blasphemy case
Lahore, PakistanAP A Pakistani court on Monday granted bail to a Christian man convicted in 2018 while still a teenager of insulting Islam by posting a picture of Islam’s holiest site on social media, a defence lawyer said. The court order in the eastern city of Lahore came more than four years after Nabeel Masih […]
Pakistani Christian couple’s appeal of blasphemy sentence postponed
Lahore, PakistanAP A Pakistani court on Wednesday adjourned without hearing a much-awaited appeal from a Christian couple facing the death penalty for the last seven years after being convicted of blasphemy, a defence lawyer said. Lawyer Saiful Malook said the couple’s appeal wasn’t heard before the court’s session ended. He is seeking the release and […]
Two Christian evangelists charged with blasphemy in Pakistan – reports
Two Christian evangelists have been charged with blasphemy in Pakistan, according to reports. The charges reportedly related to a encounter in Model Town Park in Lahore last week between evangelists Haroon Ayub Masih and Salamat Mansha Masih and Muslim man, Haroon Ahmad, and several of his friends in which an argument broke out which ended with Ahmad […]
“This will make us poorer”: Pakistani metro brings uncertainty for displaced residents
SABRINA TOPPA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on the plight of Lahore residents who are losing their homes to make way for a new train line which promises to cut pollution in the city…
Pakistani Christian who spent six years on death row acquitted of blasphemy
A Christian man who spent the last six years on death row in Pakistan after being convicted of blasphemy charges has been acquitted by the High Court. Sawan Masih, a 40-year-old Catholic father of three, was convicted and given the death sentence in March, 2014, after a Muslim man accused him of blaspheming against Islam’s […]
40 Pakistani Christians freed after almost five years in prison on trial for ‘terrorism’
World Watch Monitor Forty Pakistani Christians, who’ve been on trial for the murder of two men during a violent protest following 2015 Easter suicide attacks on two churches in Youhanabad – a majority-Christian area in Lahore, have been freed by the Lahore Anti-Terrorism Court. Two others, arrested with them, have already died, allegedly due to a lack […]
POSTCARDS: AS LAHORE CHOKES ON WINTER SMOG, PAKISTAN MOVES TO CUT AIR POLLUTION
RINA SAEED KHAN, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from Pakistan…
Two Pakistani Christian brothers sentenced to death for blasphemy
World Watch Monitor A Pakistani court last week sentenced two Christian brothers to death for blasphemy. Since their arrest in 2014, Qaisar and Amoon Ayub had been held in District Jail Jhelum, in Punjab province, 200 kilometres north of Lahore, for allegedly posting “disrespectful material” on their website, according to AsiaNews. For security reasons the two […]
ASIA BIBI: “A VICTORY FOR PAKISTAN AND MILLIONS OF MARGINALISED PEOPLE”
World Watch Monitor reports on the acquittal of Asia Bibi and reactions to it…
Pakistan PM appeals for calm after Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy
World Watch Monitor Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Imran Khan, has urged the nation not to let a fraction of people incite them to take the law into their own hands over the decision of the Supreme Court to release a Christian woman who had been facing the death penalty for blasphemy. The security situation in Pakistan […]