Tag: Pakistan

A source in Faisalabad said messages from mosques sent out on loudspeakers were calling on local people to “go out and kill” Christians

A 2022 report said there were at least 78 documented cases of abduction, forcible conversion to Islam and forcible marriage of young women

Videos posted on social media showed several police officers baton charging participants as they tried to join the demonstration

Blasphemy is a sensitive issue in Muslim-majority Pakistan, and social media giants have previously been banned

Musharraf ruled Pakistan for nearly nine years, starting when then-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif attempted to remove him as army chief

Blasphemy is a sensitive issue in Muslim-majority Pakistan, and social media giants Facebook and YouTube have previously been banned

The attack happened during afternoon worship in the provincial capital of Peshawar, close to former tribal areas along the Afghan border

Libraries are rare in Pakistan's rural areas, and the few that exist in urban centres are often poorly stocked and infrequently used

Pakistan's information ministry declared the film "repugnant to the norms of decency and morality"

In Pakistan, where a third of the country lives in hardship on less than US$4 a day, education is a rare ticket out of grinding poverty