PAKISTAN: Anger at official inaction following detention of offending shopkeeper
PAKISTAN: A Pakistani Christian woman sentenced to death over charges of blasphemy has allegedly been tortured in jail, sources familiar with the matter told The Express Tribune, writes Asad Kharal.
PAKISTAN: The furore over the killing of Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer for allegedly licentious behaviour is merely the latest and most extreme example of an appallingly divisive issue, writes Declan Walsh in The Guardian.
PAKISTAN: A court has convicted the bodyguard who confessed to killing Punjab governor Salman Taseer for Taseer's support of Asia Bibi and stance against Pakistan's blasphemy law, according to a report in The West Australian.
PAKISTAN: A misspelt word in an Urdu exam question related to Islam's revered Prophet leads to accusations of blasphemy, reports The Express Tribune.
PAKISTAN: Asia Bibi, the woman condemned to death in Pakistan under its blasphemy law, has collaborated with a French journalist on a book telling her story, reports Zenit.
PAKISTAN: The situation of being accused of blasphemy in Pakistan has not improved. Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer - murdered for speaking against the abuse of that law - may have died in vain, writes Kamila Hyat in The International News.
PHILIPPINES: The Dominican-run University of Santo Tomas in Manila on Monday denounced the work of an ...
PAKISTAN: The Express Tribune newspaper's Saba Imtiaz reports outlines of cases under Pakistan's blasphemy law between January and July this year.
PAKISTAN: Muslim party claims Holy Book should be banned by supreme court
PAKISTAN: Blasphemy laws in Pakistan have become untouchable. Even talking about changes to these laws, which ...
PAKISTAN: Pakistani woman Asia Bibi, who has been sentenced to death on blasphemy charges, has voiced her “pain and concern” following the assassination of Minorities Minister Shahbaz Bhatti.
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