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 […]
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…
Pakistani sewage worker dies after three doctors on Ramadan fast allegedly refused to touch him
World Watch Monitor A Pakistani Christian sewerage cleaner has died after three doctors allegedly refused to treat him till his sludge-covered body had been washed; they said their Ramadan fast would be invalid (“makruh”) because he was “unclean” and also belonged to a low caste. (The word for low caste, “chuhra”, especially derogatory, is reserved for sanitary workers and […]