Sindh police had arrested a shopkeeper in 2016 over blasphemy charges, as he was selling shoes which had religious symbols of Hindus. The incident took place in Tando Adam district of Sindh, where shopkeeper Jahanzaib Khashkili was booked by the police, all the stock of shoes having Hindu symbols, was confiscated. Followed by circulation of […]

A trial court in Toba Tek Singh in April, 2014 handed death sentence to an uneducated poor Christian couple accused of texting blasphemous messages to local Muslims in Gojra, Pakistan Today has learnt. Advocate Nadeem Hassan, who represented Shafqat Emmanuel and Shagufta Kausar, in court, told Pakistan Today that Additional Sessions Judge Mian Amir Habib had announced the death […]

A Christian couple were allegedly burned alive in an industrial kiln in Pakistan in November 2014 after angry workers discovered they had set fire to several verses of the Quran, a local activist said. Shahbaz Masih, 26, and his wife Shama Bibi, 24, were attacked by colleagues at the brick factory where they worked in […]

In May, 2016, a complainant, Mahinder Paal Singh (29), a resident of Multan, told Dawn on telephone that he was traveling from Faisalabad to Multan by a bus (FDS 676) owned by Kohistan-Faisal Movers company that broke down near Dijkot. He said though the driver somehow started the bus again but its speed was very […]