Pakistan News News Pakistan » Religion: Pakistan urged to protect religious minority girls from forced conversion/marriage
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and rights advocates on Tuesday (July 14) urged Pakistan to strengthen protections underage Christian and Hindu girls and other religious minorities, ...
News Pakistan » Religion: Pakistan’s Ahmadiyya Community Is Being Persecuted in Plain Sight
Early this year, on April 18, Laeeq Ahmed Cheema, a 46-year-old Ahmadi, went to an Ahmadiyya mosque in Karachi – the kind of place Pakistan’s anti-Ahmadi laws make dangerous even to name as a mosque.
News Pakistan » Religion: Pakistan watchdog suspends Geo News for 15 days over 'offensive' religious broadcast
By Ariba Shahid KARACHI, June 28 (Reuters) - Pakistan's media regulator has suspended the broadcast licence of television channel Geo News for 15 days over content aired during a programme marking ...
News Pakistan » Religion: Pakistan’s Islamist Parties Could Emerge Spoilers or Kingmakers
Although these parties may not win many seats — they have not formed an alliance and lack the support of the military establishment — they could still play a role post-February 8. Siraj ul Haq, leader ...
News Pakistan » Religion: In Pakistan, religious freedom is withering
The torching of churches in Pakistan has brought to global attention the dire state for religious minorities in that troubled country. Matters related to blasphemy represent health and safety hazards ...
News Pakistan » Religion: Pakistan's cryptocurrency aspirations stalled by religious ruling
Cryptocurrency Challenges in Pakistan Pakistan's ambitions in the cryptocurrency sector have encountered an unforeseen obstacle, not due to market fluctuations or regulatory issues, but because of a ...
News Pakistan » Religion: Religious minorities in Pakistan most affected by modern-day slavery, British report says
LEICESTER, United Kingdom – Religious minorities in Muslim-majority Pakistan are disproportionately made into modern day slaves, according to a new report issued by a group of UK parliamentarians. The ...
News Pakistan » Religion: Pakistani Christian Praised for Documenting Blasphemy Victims. Most Are Muslims.
Catholic advocate awarded by US State Department explains why Christians are disproportionately targeted while the Islamic majority predominantly accuses its own. Last month, mob violence took the ...
News Pakistan » Religion: Why Pakistan banned Geo News for 15 days over Muharram 'religious visualisations'
The regulator said the broadcast contained “religious visualisations” that could hurt religious sentiments, threaten sectarian harmony and disturb public order.
News Pakistan » Religion: Nearly 2,100 Indian Sikhs arrive in Pakistan for annual religious festivities
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — More than 2,000 Sikh pilgrims from India arrived Tuesday in eastern Pakistan to join an annual commemoration of the birth of their religion’s founder, officials said, marking ...
News Pakistan » Religion: Is God on the side of blasphemy laws?
It’s not nice to insult someone’s religion. It’s offensive to deny, denigrate or mock people’s gods or prophets, beliefs or rituals. I shouldn’t do it and neither should you. But let’s say we do. We ...