PAKISTAN ELECTIONS: CHRISTIANS EXPRESS DISMAY AT LACK OF REPRESENTATION
With elections scheduled for later this month, ASIF AQEEL, of World Watch Monitor, looks the representation of Christians and other minority groups in Parliament in Pakistan…
Pakistan court acquits 20 in case of Christian couple burnt alive
World Watch Monitor An Anti-Terrorism Court in Lahore, Pakistan, on Saturday acquitted 20 men suspected of involvement in the murder of a Christian couple burnt alive at the kiln where they worked in November, 2014, after it was alleged that they had set fire to some pages from a Quran. Previously, in April, 2016, the ATC allowed […]
Pakistan Christian still on death row, five years after his ‘blasphemy’ sparked Joseph Colony attack
World Watch Monitor At the fifth anniversary of the arson attack on a Christian neighbourhood in the Pakistani city of Lahore, the mother of the Christian man convicted of blaspheming against Islam – and so provoking the attack – says she still prays for his release. Sawan Masih*, a 30-year-old sanitation worker, was accused by a Muslim […]
Eight hundred Christian families flee Lahore neighbourhood after blasphemy accusation
World Watch Monitor At least 800 Christian families fled a Christian neighbourhood in Lahore, Pakistan, after a 20-year-old Christian man was accused of posting blasphemous content on Facebook, causing an angry mob to form. In a bid to calm the situation, several Islamic clerics and a few Christian leaders held a press conference at the Shahdara Police […]
PAKISTAN: CHURCH LEADERS ARRESTED AND FINED FOR NOT PUTTING SECURITY IN PLACE
ASIF AQEEL reports for the World Watch Monitor from Pakistan…
PAKISTAN: VIOLENCE AGAINST MUSLIMS ACCUSED OF BLASPHEMY SPURS CALLS FOR REFORM OF LAWS
Morning Star News reports on the growing push to amend blasphemy laws in Pakistan…
Pakistan court acquits all suspects in 2013 arson of Christian neighbourhood
World Watch Monitor A Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Saturday acquitted every one of the more than 100 suspects accused of ransacking, looting and then burning a Christian neighbourhood in Lahore in March, 2013. The anti-terrorism judge, Chaudhry Muhammad Azam, acquitted them after prosecution witnesses failed to identify the suspects, while the prosecutor general said “the […]