Blasphemy Law

Terrorism is Pakistan's main challenge, says UN committee

The Pakistan government has taken a number of steps to ensure the protection of human rights in Balochistan, stated Pakistan in a report to UN.

After mob of 2000 set fire to an Ahmadi mosque on allegations of blasphemy, security in Pakistan tightened

Security was tightened across Pakistan after a factory and mosque were torched over allegations of blasphemy.

Pakistan: Christian woman given death sentence under blasphemy law appeals in SC

A Pakistani Christian woman and a mother of five, convicted under the controversial blasphemy law in 2010, on Monday filed an appeal in the Supreme Court challenging a High Court's ruling upholding her death penalty.

Pak court sentences Christian man to death for blasphemy

A Christian man was on Thursday sentenced to death by a Pakistani court for blasphemy, an incident that triggered riots in the country's second-largest city.

Taseer's assassin gets death sentence

The policeman who gunned down Taseer outside a restaurant in the heart of Islamabad on 4 January, was awarded two death sentences on two counts of murder and terrorism.