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Washington:  The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) on Friday condemned the resolution passed by the Punjab Assembly in Pakistan which asked the federal government to make new or improve existing laws to sternly punish blasphemers and set up a Saudi Arabia like central screening or filtration system to intercept blasphemous material on social media. more
Pakistan blasphemy death sentence ‘travesty of justice’, say UN experts

New York: Independent UN human rights experts condemned on Friday the death sentence of a university lecturer charged with blasphemy in Pakistan, calling the ruling "a travesty of ju ...

Pakistan court sentences scholar to death on blasphemy charges

Islamabad: A Pakistan court on Saturday sentenced Junaid Hafeez, a former university lecturer, to death on blasphemy charges.

China and Pakistan re-designated by US State Department as nations violating religious freedom

Washington: The United States has re-designated Pakistan and China, among several nations, as countries of particular concern on religious freedom where persecution continues on the basis ...

Pakistan: 14-yr-old Christian girl "abducted and converted" to Islam, but girl says it happened with consent

Islamabad: In a repetition of what had happened to Sikh girl Jagjit Kaur, now a Pakistani Christian girl, who was identified as Huma Masih, has been allegedly abducted and then converted ...

Hindu medical student death in Pakistan: Judicial inquiry ordered

Islamabad: A Pakistani court has ordered a judicial probe into the death of Hindu medical student in the country's Sindh province, media reports said.

Hindu minorities under attack in Pakistan as blasphemy charge triggers violence

Ghotki, Pakistan: In what might emerge as another incident of targeting minorities in Pakistan, a mob vandalised a school, three temples and several houses belonging to the Hindu communit ...

Canadian Sikh leader threatens to boycott International Convention in Lahore after Sikh girl forcefully converted to Islam

Toronto/Lahore/New Delhi: As Pakistan started fire-fighting after a young Sikh girl was kidnapped and allegedly forcefully converted to Islam before she was married to a Muslim man in the ...

Pakistan's Pashtun protest for human rights acts as a woe to Imran government

The Pashtun people of Pakistan have been in the news in recent times when they pulled off a strong protest resulting in a deadly clash between security forces and Pashtun Tahaffuz Movemen ...

Sindhi community protests in Canada against forced conversion of minor Hindu girls in Pakistan

Toronto: Several people, which comprised mostly of Canadian Sindhis, who are Hindus, recently gathered at the Mississauga Celebration Square in Ontario in Canada near here and demanded Pa ...