Tens of thousands of people attended a rally on Thursday night in Lahore, Pakistan, in support of the nation’s former prime minister, Imran Khan, who was ousted from power on April 10 through a “no-confidence” vote by Pakistan’s parliament, Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper reported on Friday.
A group of Muslims armed with automatic weapons opened fire on the houses of Christian residents in Lahore, Pakistan, wounding six, the Barnabas Fund reported this week.
Pakistani President Arif Alvi claimed Monday that the government of India is training and financially supporting terrorists in Afghanistan so they can carry out attacks in Pakistan.
A Pakistani Muslim cleric confessed Monday to sexually assaulting his male student at an Islamic religious school, police holding the cleric told Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper.
(AFP) — At least seven Pakistan police officers and special rangers were taken hostage Sunday by supporters of a radical Islamist party, officials said, after days of violent anti-France protes
Pakistan police in Lahore have initiated a manhunt to find two young Christian men accused of blasphemy for allegedly making derogatory comments about Islam.
Pakistani police have charged three young Christians with blasphemy after local Muslims purportedly found burned pages of the Quran, the Christian Post reported Saturday.
Almost one in three civilian pilots in Pakistan are transporting passengers, including foreign carriers, on a fake license and are totally unqualified to fly, the country’s aviation minister admitted on Wednesday.
Pakistan has quarantined 20,000 attendees of an Islamic gathering in Lahore last month and is still searching for tens of thousands more, officials said on Sunday.
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.
The chief justice of the Lahore High Court (LHC) in Pakistan reportedly accused the Punjab government and police department of negligence for failing to arrest a yet to be identified “serial killer” accused of raping and murdering at least eight girls between the ages of five and eight since 2015.
Contents: India kills 3 Pakistani soldiers in Kashmir in revenge attack; Christians celebrate Christmas in Pakistan under tight security
Contents: Pakistan government totally capitulates to hardline Islamist TLYRAP Barelvi sect mob; Tehreek-e-Labbaik Ya Rasool Allah of Pakistan (TLYR or TLYRAP) has roots in Barelvi sect and murder of Salman Taseer; North Korea ballistic missiles threaten ‘everywhere in the world’
Contents: Pakistan blames Afghanistan after a week of multiple terror attacks; Pakistan army pounds militant hideouts in Afghanistan
Contents: Pakistan again in shock as Sufi shrine bombing is fifth terror attack in a week; Monday’s terror attack in Lahore Pakistan kills dozens; Pakistan’s government promises that each drop of blood will be avenged
A Pakistani man who executed his sister with a bullet to the head because she married a Christian man said he had “no choice” but to kill her because of her shameful act that brought dishonor on her family.
Contents: Pakistan again in shock after bloody terrorist attack in Quetta; The debate in Pakistan: Good terrorists vs Bad terrorists; Violence and unrest increase in India’s Kashmir
Contents: Tensions rising between Pakistan and India over Kashmir issue; Mastermind of 2008 Mumbai attack leads Pakistan protests against India
Contents: Bangladesh tries to recover from Dhaka terror attack, the worst in 40 years; Suspicions that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency supported the Dhaka attack
A group of influential Muslim clerics in Pakistan have issued a religious decree (fatwa) stating that transgender people have full marriage, inheritance and funeral rights under Islamic law, though they may only marry those of the opposite biological sex.
A new study on textbooks used in Pakistan’s public schools found “deeply troubling content” in the representation of Christians and other minority religions as fundamentally inferior and less trustworthy than Muslims. The comprehensive report, Teaching Intolerance in Pakistan: Religious Bias
Pakistani security forces killed at least five terrorists and arrested over 600 suspects in large-scale operation in the country’s eastern Punjab province, reports state-controlled Chinese outlet Xinhua.
Islamic extremists carried out nearly every suicide terror attack in the world during the year 2015, and the number of women and young girls among them grew exponentially, according to a report from the Institute for National Security Studies.
Contents: Pakistan promises to ‘avenge every drop of blood’ spilled by terrorists; Pakistan’s army launches a military crackdown in Southern Punjab province; Lahore Easter attack gives army even greater control of Pakistan
The Islamist terror group behind Sunday’s suicide bombing in Pakistan has declared that the intended target of the religiously motivated attack that killed more than 70 children and adults was “Christians.” Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA), a faction of the Pakistani Taliban, has
Contents: Thousands protest violently over execution of murderer of blasphemy reformer; Pakistan Taliban branch takes credit for Easter massacre of Christians in Lahore
The death toll for the Easter-Day massacre in central Pakistan has risen to 72 victims, mostly women and children, along with at least 320 injured. Breitbart News reported that a suicide bomber blew himself up Sunday evening in an attack
An explosion in Lahore, Pakistan, has killed between 50-60 people, mostly women and children, and left hundreds injured as they celebrated Easter.
The 15-year-old Pakistani Christian boy who was beaten, doused with kerosene and set on fire by two Muslim men last week died early Wednesday morning from burns covering 55% of his body. Before dying, the boy said that he forgave his assailants.
On Sunday, Pope Francis decried the massacre of Christians in Lahore, Pakistan, and denounced a worldwide effort to conceal the reality of Christian persecution.
Pakistani Christians have long protested the lack of government protection from terrorist attacks and random, unsubstantiated accusations of blasphemy. Sunday’s Taliban attack on two Christian churches in Lahore resulted in the death of at least 14 people, with many dozens wounded. Again, a lack of police presence seems to be a contributing factor in the violence.
Violent Christian riots follow bombing of two churches in Lahore, Pakistan; Jamaat-ul-Ahrar claims credit for Lahore bombings, rejoins TTP; Rumors abound in Russia on the disappearance of Vladimir Putin
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