‘When even a billionaire like Mark Zuckerberg acknowledges Pakistan’s blasphemy hysteria as a threat, imagine the fear ordinary Pakistanis live under,' said one Pakistani on X.
The Organisation of the Islamic Conference have periodically lobbied for blasphemy to be made a global offence. But they have been soft on violations of human rights in Sharia law.
There’s no will in Pakistan to engage in the fraught debate that the Quran has 'no notion of blasphemy'. The blasphemy laws show that real power lies with the clerics.
Bhatti is accused of sending blasphemous texts abusing Prophet’s mother. He was tortured into confessing the same, says US Commission for International Religious Freedom.
Long-simmering controversies about ‘beadbi’ in Sikhism have come to the fore with several incidents over the past few years, including Saturday's lynching at Golden Temple.
Mohhamed Gohir Khan has been charged by investigators in UK of plotting to murder Netherlands-based social media activist Ahmad Waqass Goraya. Khan will be produced at Old Bailey Monday.
Asif Pervaiz, a 37-year-old garment factory worker accused of sending 'blasphemous texts' to his former work supervisor, will first serve three years in jail for 'misusing his phone'.
With his cameo in Bads of Bollywood, Emraan Hashmi, who has long shifted away from his signature bold image, got the chance to revive his boyhood charm.
SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.
There were no plans to have Mk1A version. However, compromise was reached between HAL & IAF in 2015 since original plan for getting Mk2 would've been time-consuming affair.
Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.
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