A senior police detective who was involved in an operation that failed to go after a predominantly Pakistani child rape gang has been elevated to a top position dealing with sexual abuse against children.
Islamic extremism is still a primary driver of Christian persecution in eight out of the ten most dangerous places for Christians.
MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) – A Pakistani court on Saturday convicted a Muslim professor of blasphemy, sentencing him to death for allegedly spreading anti-Islamic ideas.
Not only was former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf sentenced to death for treason on Tuesday, but on Thursday a special rider was attached to his death sentence stipulating that if he dies before he can be executed, his corpse must be “dragged” to the street outside parliament and “hanged for three days.”
Saudi Arabia and Pakistan chose not to attend the Muslim summit convened in Malaysia on Wednesday. The summit was organized largely on the impulse of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is presiding over the event with Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad.
A court in Pakistan sentenced former President Pervez Musharraf to death for imprisoning top judges in 2007 as part of a “state of emergency” meant to keep him in power.
Four Pakistani nationals were arrested in Barcelona earlier this week after they poured concrete on part of a memorial to the victims of the 2017 Barcelona terror attack.
Lawyers in Pakistan announced a nationwide strike on Friday to protest the arrest of colleagues who went on a deadly rampage at the Punjab Institution of Cardiology (PIC) in Lahore on Wednesday, killing several patients in the process.
A mob of two hundred lawyers attacked the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) in Lahore, Pakistan on Wednesday, causing at least 12 deaths, several of them critical care patients whose treatments were interrupted by the riot.
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) – Page after page, the names stack up: 629 girls and women from across Pakistan who were sold as brides to Chinese men and taken to China. The list, obtained by The Associated Press, was compiled by Pakistani investigators determined to break up trafficking networks exploiting the country´s poor and vulnerable.
Teachers did nothing while a girl was “passed around like meat” from the age of 12 by an alleged “Asian” grooming gang in Telford, a court has heard.
An angry mob carrying banners and chanting slogans attempted to storm the offices of the Dawn newspaper in Islamabad on Monday after the outlet identified the London Bridge attacker as a “man of Pakistani origin.”
The Taliban released two Western professors, an American and an Australian, on Tuesday after more than three years in captivity. In exchange, the Afghan government released three Taliban jihadists and flew them to Qatar.
A Pakistani man has been jailed in the Netherlands for his plot to launch a terror attack against Dutch firebrand Geert Wilders.
Another six so-called “grooming gang” rapists have been sentenced for waging a “campaign of rape” in the English town of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.
Thousands of demonstrators poured into Islamabad from across the country on Friday, including massive marches organized in the cities of Lahore and Karachi earlier this week. The protesters are largely hardline Islamists who want Prime Minister Imran Khan and his government to resign, ostensibly because they believe his 2018 election was illegitimate.
(AP) — A raging fire swept through a train in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province on Thursday, killing 74 people. Survivors said afterward it took nearly 20 minutes for the train to stop amid contradictory reports about the condition of its brakes.
Nearly 900 children in a Pakistani city tested positive for HIV, according to a Saturday report from the New York Times.
Persecution against Christians in Southeast Asia, particularly in Sri Lanka and Pakistan, has grown in severity over two years, according to a new report from Aid to the Church in Need.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan told an audience in Beijing on Tuesday that he would like to launch a mass police action to send “500 people” to prison for corruption, emulating Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
India on Thursday announced new restrictions on universities seeking to cooperate with Chinese institutions. The order came down only a week before Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to meet with Chinese Communist Party chief Xi Jinping.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan used his address at the United Nations General Assembly on Friday to decry “Islamophobia” faced by Muslims worldwide, a trend he said was exacerbated by the 9/11 attacks.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated his speech before the United Nations General Assembly on Friday to urging globalism and “multilateralism,” arguing that India has a “unique” understanding of “belonging beyond borders.”
A Kashmiri and Sikh advocate group sued Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a U.S. circuit court this week for alleged human rights violations in New Delhi-held Kashmir.
Pakistani authorities arrested a Hindu principal over the weekend after “blasphemy” allegations against him prompted a mob to ransack a temple and damage a school and homes belonging to the minority group.
Indian authorities in New Delhi-held Kashmir have detained nearly 4,000 people, about 80 percent of them accused of stone-pelting, in a bid to stifle protests since revoking the region’s limited autonomy last month, Reuters reported Thursday.
Pakistan has beefed up its military presence in Islamabad-controlled Kashmir, moving more than 2,000 troops closer to region’s border with India, Asian News International (ANI) reported Thursday.
Sikhs in Delhi, India, held a large protest rally outside the Pakistani embassy on Monday to protest the forced conversion of minorities to Islam.
India’s Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear petitions against the Hindu-nationalist-led government’s decision to rescind the autonomy of New Delhi-administered Kashmir, the country’s only Muslim-majority region.
Pakistan threatened to shut down land routes for Indo-Afghan trade and impose a complete ban on the use of its airspace by Indian flights on Tuesday.
