By Joseph Hannan,on May 6th,2013 Leader of Hifazat-e-Islam forced to exit Dhaka after clashes between group’s supporters and police leave many dead. As violence moves beyond the Bangladesh capital the man at the head of the group that instigated the fatal protests was driven out of Dhaka under police escort. . . . →Read More:Heavy clashes in Bangladesh over Blasphemy law By Ali Farhan,on April 8th,2013 Discussing the Badami Bagh incident in Lahore,the Senate Standing Committee on National Harmony on Thursday recommended stern punishment for people involved in making false blasphemy accusations. Mir Mohammad Ali Rind who presided over the meeting at the Parliament House said the burning of properties in Badami Bagh was a tragic incident which portrayed a . . . →Read More:Punitive actions recommended for false accusers of blasphemy By Maryam Rahman,on March 28th,2013 By Christopher Dickey Accused of blasphemy,Sherry Rehman fights back. “Blasphemy.” When you hear that word in America,it conjures up visions of the Salem witch trials or,worse,the Middle Ages and the Inquisition. It is not a word that’s common in the think tanks of Washington or around the capital’s dinner tables,where . . . →Read More:Sherry Rehman refutes blasphemy accusation By Nathoo Ram,on March 15th,2013 Badami Bagh is no less than a ravaged town awaiting life once again. Along the sides of the roads are little yellow tents set up for the Christian families who lost their homes when an angry mob set fire to the entire residential area. These little tents are filled with people. It is as if . . . →Read More:Conversations with Badami Bagh residents By Ghalib Sultan,on March 13th,2013 The picture on top says it all. A mob in the background and an exultant youth in the foreground with smoke,fire and burning homes all around. This was the scene in the heart of Lahore when Christian homes were set on fire because of alleged blasphemy by a Christian who had already been booked . . . →Read More:PAKISTAN SHAMED!! By Nathoo Ram,on October 12th,2012 By S. Raza Hassan KARACHI:With the case of Rimsha Masih still grabbing the headlines,another case of blasphemy was reported to police on Wednesday,this time not in a slum but in a middle-class neighbourhood of Gulshan-i-Iqbal,after the house of the accused boy belonging to a religious minority community was ransacked . . . →Read More:Teenage Christian boy accused of blasphemy forced to flee By Nathoo Ram,on October 5th,2012 By Hassan Naqvi Blasphemy law has been hovering the free soul spirits now and again,drifting back into the formation of this law,heads droop down on finding its non-existent implementation in Quran and Sunnah. Who took up the charge and declared the implementation of such sensitized issue? Where their root does belongs from? And . . . →Read More:Islam:No punishment for blasphemy By Nathoo Ram,on September 5th,2012 Ayaz Amir If there was an international shoot-in-the-foot prize Pakistan would win it hands down,our genius for self-inflicted injuries surpassing that of all competitors. We don’t need RAW,Mossad or the CIA to conspire against us. We are self-sufficient in this department,no conspiracy from those quarters coming close to what we . . . →Read More:Behold the country of the inane By Inaam.Chandio,on September 4th,2012 By Khaled Ahmed The people who target religious minorities in Pakistan had been nurtured as the state’s proxy warriors;the state then surrendered to them its monopoly of violence. . . . →Read More:Symptoms of social collapse By Inaam.Chandio,on August 28th,2012 Saeed Shah Unprecedented move comes after 11-year-old thought to have Down’s syndrome charged with desecrating the Qur’an Islamic leaders in Pakistan on Monday came out in support of a Christian girl with learning difficulties who is being held in prison,in an unprecedented public denunciation of the blasphemy law by hard-line mullahs. . . . →Read More:Rimsha Masih now supported by Muslim leaders’ bloc | |
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