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Pakistan Blasphemy Law in Action

Sunny Gill 18 May::  Another case of Blasphemy has been registered against a Sajid Masih ,Christian –aged 20 , resident of Saidqabad ,Farooqabad district Shiekhpura On 18th May ,2012.

The complaint Muhammad Shar-ullah-zaman filed an application in the Police station city Farooqabad under-section 295-B . He stated that Sajid Masih has burned the page of the Quranic text which were in the box (Placed by the Theerk-e- Nafazey Muhammadi . Within few hours thousands of Muslims clerics around Punjab gather at the police station they were demanding the police station officer to handed over the blasphemer to them.

 

Govt to prevent misuse of blasphemy laws

ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari has said that the government is determined not to permit anyone to misuse blasphemy law against minorities or any other vulnerable section of the society

This he said during the meeting with Procurator General from the Vatican, Father Robert McCulloch, who called on him at Aiwan-e-Sadr on Wednesday.

Dr. Paul Bhatti, Minister Incharge for National Harmony, Akram Masih Gill, State Minister for National Harmony, and Spokesperson to the President Senator Farhatullah Babar were also present during the meeting.

The President said that government appreciates the contributions of the Christian community in the socio-economic developmental of the country. He said that the Christians and other non-Muslim minorities have made significant contributions in the education and the health sectors.

How Pakistani Christians are Surviving in Pakistan

A Special Report about Pakistani Christians and their life, how they are living in A Muslim County,

How Pakistani christian surviving in Pakistan 
Written by: Aliya Salahuddin
Directed by: Niccolo Piazza

Pakistani Christians Honor Bishop Joseph Who Committed Suicide

Christians in Faisalabad, Pakistan, gathered at the city’s cathedral for a memorial Mass honoring Bishop John Joseph, who took his own life in 1998 in a protest against the country’s blasphemy laws.

More than 600 people gathered to honor the “martyr bishop,” with Father Khalid Rashid Asi, the vicar general of the Faisalabad, presiding at the memorial Mass.