ET: ISLAMABAD: Ports and Shipping Minister Kamran Michael has been appointed the focal person for the case against suspects involved in the murder of a Christian couple in Kot Radha Kishan. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif appointed Michael as his representative for the case. “This is the first time in the history of […]
The News: Islamabad diary Once upon a time under-class Mohajirs in Karachi, residents not of Clifton and Defence but depressed localities, used to be an object of scorn for other communities, regularly picked upon by the mostly Punjabi police and treated roughly in public transport, mostly owned by Pakhtuns. Not […]
Alarabiya: France adopted Tuesday an anti-terrorism law which will slap a travel ban on anyone suspected of planning to wage jihad after the upper house Senate gave its final stamp […]
FP: JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — Ahmed al-Ghamdi’s long, bushy beard and red-checked headscarf are emblems of his conservative approach to Islam, which is no surprise for a man who once supervised the Saudi religious police in the holy city of Mecca. But it was something surprising about Ghamdi that brought […]
Guardian: In November 2010, Asia Bibi, a Christian mother of five, was sentenced to death in Pakistan. Her crime was allegedly insulting the prophet Muhammad during an argument with some Muslim neighbours. The case caused an international outcry; politicians and international human rights organisations took it up; lawyers appealed. Today, the […]
Mariam Ibrahim, the Sudan woman who escaped a death sentence imposed for renouncing her faith, says she wants to campaign for others who face religious persecution. Speaking to the BBC in the US, where she is seeking asylum, Ms Ibrahim said she hopes to return to Sudan one day. READ […]
Mariam Ibrahim, the Sudan woman who escaped a death sentence imposed for renouncing her faith, says she wants to campaign for others who face religious persecution. Speaking to the BBC in the US, where she is seeking asylum, Ms Ibrahim said she hopes to return to Sudan one day. READ […]
ET: ISLAMABAD: A policeman shot two men in jail on Thursday, killing one accused of blasphemy and wounding another condemned to death on the same charge, lawyers and an activist said. Christian pastor Zafar Bhatti was killed and 70-year-old British man Muhammad Asghar, who has a history of mental illness, was […]
The NEWS: ISLAMABAD: In a strange move, the Station House Officer (SHO) of Police Station (Saddar) of Samandari in Faisalabad district has registered a blasphemy case against 55 Christians and three Muslims on the charges of desecration of a graveyard that have no visible signs of existence at all! The […]
Huff Post: Kashif N. Chaudhry — We have all heard of Sudan’s death penalty for the “crime” of leaving Islam. Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan (since 2007), Yemen and Afghanistan have […]
Source: The Huffington Post By Kashif N. Chaudhry: Physician, writer and humanitarian We have all heard of Sudan’s death penalty for the “crime” of leaving Islam. Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan (since 2007), Yemen and Afghanistan have similar rulings for apostasy. Do these punishments have any basis in the Islamic faith? Does Islam […]
A Sudanese woman sentenced to death for abandoning her Islamic faith has been freed from jail, her lawyer has told the BBC. Meriam Ibrahim’s death penalty was overturned by an appeal court, the official Suna news agency reported. She is married to a Christian man and was sentenced under Sharia […]
A Sudanese woman sentenced to death for abandoning her Islamic faith has been freed from jail, her lawyer has told the BBC. Meriam Ibrahim’s death penalty was overturned by an appeal court, the official Suna news agency reported. She is married to a Christian man and was sentenced under Sharia […]
June 16, 2014 Sir: Apropos to the column ‘Does PUC condemn sectarian violence’ by Kashif N Chaudhry (Daily Times, June 10, 2014), the writer has criticised the National Conference Pakistan Ulema Council (PUC) conducted on June 5 in Islamabad on the importance of dialogue to create inter-faith and inter-sect harmony. […]
Global Post: Part Three: In March the Saudi government outlawed “calling for atheist thought in any form, or calling into question the fundamentals of the Islamic religion on which this country is based.” ENLARGE A Pakistani child stands next to a replica of the Kaaba, the Grand Mosque in the […]
By Abed Awad, who is an attorney, a national Islamic law expert and an adjunct law professor at Rutgers Law School and Pace Law School. (CNN) – Last month, a Sudanese court […]
Source: The Economist A death sentence issued by a Sudanese court has stirred up controversy THE Koran is categorical. “There is no compulsion in religion,” it says (in the 256th verse of the second sura, or chapter). In another passage of the Muslim holy book, in the tenth sura, we find God […]
Source: The Economist A death sentence issued by a Sudanese court has stirred up controversy THE Koran is categorical. “There is no compulsion in religion,” it says (in the 256th verse of the second sura, or chapter). In another passage of the Muslim holy book, in the tenth sura, we find God […]
Source: Patheos.com By Ro Waseem In January 2011, the governor of Punjab, Salman Taseer, was gunned down by one of his own security guards over a controversial move — opposing the blasphemy […]
BBC: Why is blasphemy such a big issue in Pakistan? It’s constantly in the headlines – BBC Urdu’s Amber Shamsi tracks the history of blasphemy in Pakistan while satirist Mohammed Hanif breaks down how one can or can’t blaspheme in Karachi. Mixtape: Togo BBC Afrique’s music journalist Ata Ahli Ahebla spins another […]