Pakistan blasphemy laws

Pakistan is strengthening  its controversial anti-blasphemy laws – with potentially deadly results for religious minority groups.

The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority says it blocked Wikipedia because a 48-hour deadline to remove content  it said was blasphemous was ignored.

Pakistan is indubitably more phobic of the Ahmadiyya sect, and their interpretation of Islam, than most of the states that Khan vocally deems “Islamophobic.”

Why would foreign investors want to visit Pakistan if they could get lynched on accusations of blasphemy?

Radical Barelvi groups are now resorting to violence to underline their sect – once famous for its pluralism – as the truest version of Islam.

The mockery of Hindu deities underscores Pakistan’s Islamist double standard on blasphemy.

Recent anti-Shia demonstrations in Karachi raise uncomfortable questions about the possible involvement of the Pakistani establishment.

Vigilantes have claimed the life of yet another Pakistani accused of blasphemy.

31 dead, 58 injured, and 25 blasphemy cases – that’s the toll taken on Pakistan’s religious minorities since Prime Minister Imran Khan took office.

Stopping the released of an award-winning film to appease an Islamist group sets a troubling precedent.

The 86 were charged with damaging public property, beating people up and staging sit-ins against the acquittal of Aasia Bibi in 2018.