Press Release A senior church leader has called for protecting the rights of religious minorities in Pakistan and for ensuring civil liberties on equal terms. In his message on National Minorities’ Day, Church of Pakistan (CoP) President/Moderator Bishop Dr Azad Marshall said that Pakistan’s founding father, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, in his speech on August […]
61SharesPolice have allegedly halted the investigation into a case pertaining to the kidnapping of a 12-year-old Christian girl by three Muslim men in Faisalabad. The 12 year old girl Farah Shaheen was reportedly kidnapped by three Muslim men who kept her chained up for 5 months and continued to sexually abuse her. She was bound […]
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) recently voiced serious concerns on the recent surge of blasphemy cases registered against Shias. Even more alarming is that most of these complaints also included charges under the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997, besides blasphemy accusations. It’s obvious that these are attempts to silence and persecute a minority by abusing […]