Salman Taseer

Protests in Pakistan against lynching of university student Mashal Khan

Islamabad: Protests led by civil society organisations were held in different parts of Pakistan to condemn the killing of university student Mashal Khan for allegedly "publishing blasphemous content online".

Pakistan: Eight arrested for murder of university student over blasphemy

Islamabad: Pakistani police on Friday arrested eight members of a lynch mob that brutally assaulted two university students — killing one and injuring the other — over alleged blasphemy a day earlier.

Quetta terror attack: Pakistan needs to conduct surgical strikes on its own soil

Pakistan's tryst with turbulence began at the time of its very inception.

Taliban didn't like my sense of style: Shahbaz Taseer tweets account of his five-year-long captivity

Pakistanis have been riveted as Shahbaz Taseer and his wife Maheen light up the Internet with their funny, loving and often heart-stopping account of his captivity and release.

Mumtaz Qadri supporters protesting outside Pakistan Parliament disperse after officials threaten to use force

Pakistan's interior minister says hundreds of Islamists protesting the hanging of a policeman who had killed a secular governor have ended their rally

Pakistan threatens to use force to remove radical Islamists outside Parliament

Pakistani police were readying to disperse hundreds of radical Islamists rallying outside the Parliament building if they failed to leave peacefully

Mumtaz Qadri's supporters hold 'sit-in' in Pakistan's capital city

Thousands of supporters of an executed Islamist assassin were holding a sit-in in Islamabad Monday after submitting a list of demands including the execution of a female Christian blasphemy convict.

Lahore suicide blast: Pakistan Taliban claims responsibility for Easter attack

A powerful blast ripped through a public park in Lahore where Christian families were celebrating Easter on Sunday, killing 69 people and wounding over 250, mostly women and children

Islamists in Pak are subverting rule of law by celebrating the execution of Salman Taseer’s assassin

As far as blasphemy is concerned, there is a lot to be done – from defining blasphemy to the amount of penalty. From Rashid Ghannouchi to Tariq Ramadan, Islamic scholars have been debating to redefine blasphemy, its political use and create a mechanism to take the final call on such offences. Muslim groups in Pakistan are so deeply obsessed with their community politics that they do not have the courage to at least tell their supporters that mobs and individuals have no legal and Islamic rights to punish anyone for any crime whatsoever.

'Qadri, your blood will bring the revolution': Islamist supporters during the funeral of Salman Taseer's killer

Tens of thousands of Islamist supporters of Mumtaz Qadri chanting provocative slogans on Tuesday attended his funeral, a day after the ex-police commando was executed for killing liberal Punjab governor Salman Taseer who sought reforms in Pakistan's controversial blasphemy law.