A man was sentenced to 25 years of rigorous imprisonment and fined an additional Rs 1 lakh by a court in Pakistan for having committed blasphemy.
IS leader Abu Bakar Al Baghdadi and Taliban chief Mullah Mohammad Omar declared jihad against each other after the former called the latter a foolish, illiterate warlord.
An additional district as well as sessions judge in Lahore dismissed a bail petition filed by a woman who has been involved in a blasphemy case.
A group in Pakistan wants to make the Blasphemy Act more effective and complains that no blasphemer in the country has yet been convicted under it.
Sindh Province in Pakistan will introduce to its education curriculum a speech by its founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah, to combat religious intolerance.
Ten more Christians were killed in protests that were staged against the twin church bombings in Lahore, bringing the total death toll to over 25.
Pakistan’s Supreme Court dismissed the murder investigation of a Christian couple in the Punjab Province, calling it biased and unsatisfactory.
A few of the people awaiting trial on grounds of having violated Pakistan’s blasphemy law may now be able to see some light at the end of the tunnel.
Muslim clerics in India and Pakistan led funeral prayers for the two Algerian brothers that were responsible for the Charlie Hebdo killings.
Pakistani actress Veena Malik expressed her disbelief after a 26-year jail term was handed down to her by a court in Pakistan on grounds of blasphemy.
