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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.
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.
Another Hero Lost- Group Captain Cecil Chaudhry Dead
Cecil Chaudhry born on 27 August 1941,Dalwal, Punjab, British India, now Pakistan was a Pakistani Christian, academic, human rights activist, and veteran fighter pilot. As a Flight Lieutenant, he fought in the Indo-Pakistani war of 1965 and 
later, as a Squadron Leader, in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. During the 1965 war, Chaudhry and three other pilots, under the leadership of Wing Commander Anwar Shamim, destroyed the Amritsar Radar Station in a difficult attack. He was awarded the Sitara-e-Jurat (Star of Courage) for his actions during that mission.
Chaudhry was also an influential, independent human rights activist, as well as working for the betterment of children with disabilities and for educational reform. He advised and worked closely with the late Shahbaz Bhatti from the early 1990s onwards and has been Executive Secretary of the All Pakistan Minorities Alliance (APMA) since its inception. He is also affiliated with the National Commission for Justice and Peace and was instrumental in leading the fourteen year campaign that led to the restoration of Pakistan’s joint electorate system in 2002.
