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30 Aug 2024

DNA: 'Muslim Agenda' - Who needs a 'beheading' law in India?

08 May 2023

DNA: Lynching of a Muslim religious leader by a religious mob

With the birth of Pakistan, the seeds of religious fanaticism were sown there. In Pakistan, a man was beaten to death on charges of blasphemy. The person who was lynched was himself a Muslim cleric.

Nupur Sharma comment row

12 Jun 2022

Nupur Sharma Comment Row: Irfan Pathan, Gautam Gambhir open up on controversy

Delhi Police has registered two FIRs-- one against former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma and the other against 31 people BJP MP from East Delhi Gautam Gambhir has also opened up on the issue

21 Dec 2021

Sacrilege incident at Golden Temple: What are the laws and punishments?

‘Beadbi’ or 'sacrilege' means being disrespectful towards Guru Granth Sahib Ji. The concept of sacrilege in Sikhism emanates largely from the fact that Sikhs consider the Guru Granth Sahib to be a living Guru. The Sikhs consider the Guru Granth Sahib and everything associated with it as highly sacred. In Sikhism, the Guru is considered to be a living entity, hence any harm or disrespect to the guru is treated as a serious offence.

05 Dec 2021

Broken skull, 99% burnt tissues in postmortem report of Sri Lankan national

Mob in Pakistan`s Sialkot had tortured Diyawadana to death All bones of the body except that of a leg were found broken The incident took place in the Wazirabad Road area

04 Dec 2021

Pakistan mob lynches Lankan man over 'blasphemy', Khan calls it 'day of shame'

A Sri Lankan has been lynched and his body burnt by angry supporters in Pakistan. The incident took place in Punjab province over blasphemy allegations. 100 suspects have been arrested so far.

09 Aug 2021

Pakistan: 8-yr-old Hindu boy becomes youngest person charged with blasphemy

The boy is accused of intentionally urinating on a carpet in the library of a madrassa Muslim crowd attacked a Hindu temple after the boy`s release on bail

08 May 2021

Charge of blasphemy, tool to silence women's rights activists in Pakistan

A storm on social media pushed demands for action against Aurat March, based on the video Experts said that Islamist policies have long silenced marginalised segments in the country, including women Experts underlined the danger of this trend of using blasphemy to silence women`s rights activists is a decade-old ploy of Islamists

26 Oct 2020

Emmanuel Macron encouraged Islamophobia to provoke Muslims: Pakistan PM

Khan's comments come days after Macron paid tribute to a French history teacher beheaded by an Islamist radical who wanted to avenge the use of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.

27 Jul 2020

Number of blasphemy cases against minority communities rises in Pakistan: GHRD

Global Human Rights Defence (GHRD) in its latest report has raised serious concern on Human rights abuse in Pakistan. Systemic misuse of blasphemy in Pakistan has terrorized the minorities in Pakistan, said GHRD report. It added that lasphemy law continues to embolden the radicals who use it as a coercive measure to enforce their ideologies on minority communities in Pakistan.

21 Dec 2019

Pakistani professor sentenced to death for blasphemy

Junaid Hafeez, 33, was arrested in March 2013 for allegedly posting derogatory remarks against Prophet Mohammed on social media.

01 Oct 2019

Israeli portal takes dig at Imran Khan's proposal to counter Islamophobia

The Pak PM recently announced that he would join hands with Malaysia and Turkey to launch a new English language Islamic television channel to correct the misperceptions about Islam.

29 May 2019

Violence in Pakistan after Hindu veterinary doctor accused of blasphemy

The Hindu veterinary doctor was arrested on Monday under the country's strict blasphemy laws after a local cleric filed a police complaint accusing him of committing blasphemy.

27 May 2019

Hindu doctor arrested on blasphemy charges in Pakistan

The head cleric of the local mosque, Maulvi Ishaq Nohri, filed the complaint with the police alleging that the doctor had torn pages of a holy book and wrapped medicines in them.

29 Jan 2019

Pakistan court upholds acquittal of Christian woman accused of blasphemy

Asia Bibi, a farm worker, was convicted in 2010 of making derogatory remarks about Islam.

31 Oct 2018

Pakistan court acquits Christian woman on death row for blasphemy

In a landmark verdict, Pakistan's Supreme Court Wednesday overturned the conviction of a Christian woman facing execution for blasphemy.

30 Dec 2017

Pakistan man freed after spending nine years in jail on false blasphemy charges

Put in jail in September of 2008, the accused was let off by Pakistani Supreme Court due to lack of evidence.

12 Jun 2017

Pakistan sentences man to death for blasphemy on Facebook

Blasphemy is a highly sensitive topic in Muslim-majority Pakistan, where insulting the Prophet Mohammad is a capital crime for which dozens are sitting on death row.

Lynched Pakistani student

05 Jun 2017

'Lynched Pakistani student did not commit blasphemy'

The killing led to a national outcry after a video of it went viral.

05 Jun 2017

Lynched Pakistani student did not commit blasphemy: Police

An outspoken Pakistani student killed by a lynch mob was falsely accused of blasphemy, according to an official report that added his murder was organised by faculty members and rival students.

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