A mob in Pakistan has beaten a man to death and burned his body over allegations of blasphemy -- an explosive issue in the Muslim-majority country where even unproven allegations can stir up violence and large protests.
An international media rights watchdog has criticized an “extremely vague” provision in a new Pakistani law that supposedly protects journalists, saying it was “tantamount to censorship and intimidation.”
Pakistan's top court has granted bail to a lawmaker from the restive tribal belt who was arrested nearly a year ago on sedition charges he denies.
Pakistan has proposed to host the foreign ministers of the 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) next month to discuss the “serious humanitarian situation” in Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover in mid-August.
Police in the city of Charsadda in northern Pakistan say the situation remained tense on November 29, two days after hundreds of angry protesters ransacked and burned a police station and several checkpoints. The crowd demanded that police hand over a man who had allegedly burned a Koran.
Police in northwestern Pakistan say hundreds of people demanding that officers hand over a man accused of burning the Koran have mobbed a police station, setting fire to it and six nearby checkposts.
Sharbat Gula, better known as the green-eyed Afghan Girl on the 1985 cover of National Geographic, has been evacuated to Italy, the Italian government said.
Ali Wazir, a Pakistani lawmaker and a leader of a civil rights group, was arrested almost a year ago on sedition charges. As Wazir languishes in a cell awaiting trial, his wife opens up on her family’s ordeal.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has approved a nearly $30 million assistance package aimed at helping Afghanistan deal with a deteriorating humanitarian crisis.
Amnesty International is urging Pakistani authorities to end their use of enforced disappearance, saying such an “abhorrent” practice not only violates the rights of those who vanished but also has a “devastating” impact on their families.
A Czech model sentenced in 2019 to more than eight years in a Pakistani prison for drug trafficking was released following her acquittal earlier this month.
Pakistani authorities have released the jailed leader of a radical Islamist party who was behind protests that triggered deadly clashes with police.
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