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A group of armed men raided a Christian church in Punjab, Pakistan, on Saturday, desecrating a cross and demolishing a gate and a boundary wall, L’Observatoire de la Christianophobie reported Monday.

A report produced on Tuesday by the city government of Rawalpindi, in the Pakistani province of Punjab, found that most of the city’s 250 most sensitive mosques were ignoring guidelines provided for safe worship during the coronavirus pandemic.

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday called upon wealthy nations to finance a more extensive rescue package for developing economies in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

HELSINKI (AP) – Swedish police say they have identified a body found late last month in a river as that of missing Pakistani journalist Sajid Hussain.

Pakistan’s Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs has called for the beheading of people who commit blasphemy.

Pakistani imams are reportedly urging worshippers to defy the Islamist government’s coronavirus lockdown and gather for communal prayers during Ramadan, an Islamic holy month which starts April 24 in Pakistan.

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday compared the government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Nazi Germany, accusing it of “deliberate and violent targeting of Muslims” to distract public anger from Modi’s coronavirus policies.

Police say the problem of sexual abuse of children by clerics is pervasive and the scores of police reports they have received are just the tip of the iceberg.

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.

Afghanistan Minister of Public Health Ferozuddin Feroz warned on Tuesday that the Chinese coronavirus could kill at least 110,000 people amid a rise in cases across the country.

The world must look to “miraculous” China for leadership in the growing coronavirus epidemic, a Pakistan political analyst said Thursday, adding criticism of the Communist state by the U.S. is “not conducive to global harmony.”

Hundreds of Pakistanis are flooding into hospitals in Karachi with flu-like symptoms asking to be tested for Chinese coronavirus, Pakistani newspaper Dawn reported on Wednesday.

Google, Facebook, and Twitter have taken a stand for free speech online, threatening to pull their services from Pakistan following the government’s introduction of sweeping online censorship rules.

An Indonesian Muslim group named Indonesia Tanpa Pacaran (“Indonesia without dating”) has declared February 14 “Indonesia Without Dating Day,” organizing rallies, talks, popular events to stamp out both the holiday and the practice of dating before marriage.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi boasted to a gathering of military officers in New Delhi on Tuesday that his country could defeat Pakistan in less than a week if war broke out, as it perpetually threatens to do in the disputed Kashmir province. The Pakistani Foreign Ministry denounced Modi’s “irresponsible and warmongering” remarks on Wednesday.

Pakistani security officials are reportedly concerned that over 10,000 police personnel delegated to protect Chinese engineers working on Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) infrastructure projects could be at risk of contracting the Wuhan coronavirus.

A senior police detective who was involved in an operation that failed to go after a predominantly Pakistani child rape gang has been elevated to a top position dealing with sexual abuse against children.

Islamic extremism is still a primary driver of Christian persecution in eight out of the ten most dangerous places for Christians.

MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) – A Pakistani court on Saturday convicted a Muslim professor of blasphemy, sentencing him to death for allegedly spreading anti-Islamic ideas.

Not only was former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf sentenced to death for treason on Tuesday, but on Thursday a special rider was attached to his death sentence stipulating that if he dies before he can be executed, his corpse must be “dragged” to the street outside parliament and “hanged for three days.”

Saudi Arabia and Pakistan chose not to attend the Muslim summit convened in Malaysia on Wednesday. The summit was organized largely on the impulse of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is presiding over the event with Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad.

A court in Pakistan sentenced former President Pervez Musharraf to death for imprisoning top judges in 2007 as part of a “state of emergency” meant to keep him in power.

Four Pakistani nationals were arrested in Barcelona earlier this week after they poured concrete on part of a memorial to the victims of the 2017 Barcelona terror attack.

Lawyers in Pakistan announced a nationwide strike on Friday to protest the arrest of colleagues who went on a deadly rampage at the Punjab Institution of Cardiology (PIC) in Lahore on Wednesday, killing several patients in the process.

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.

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) – Page after page, the names stack up: 629 girls and women from across Pakistan who were sold as brides to Chinese men and taken to China. The list, obtained by The Associated Press, was compiled by Pakistani investigators determined to break up trafficking networks exploiting the country´s poor and vulnerable.

Teachers did nothing while a girl was “passed around like meat” from the age of 12 by an alleged “Asian” grooming gang in Telford, a court has heard.

An angry mob carrying banners and chanting slogans attempted to storm the offices of the Dawn newspaper in Islamabad on Monday after the outlet identified the London Bridge attacker as a “man of Pakistani origin.”

The Taliban released two Western professors, an American and an Australian, on Tuesday after more than three years in captivity. In exchange, the Afghan government released three Taliban jihadists and flew them to Qatar.

A Pakistani man has been jailed in the Netherlands for his plot to launch a terror attack against Dutch firebrand Geert Wilders.

Another six so-called “grooming gang” rapists have been sentenced for waging a “campaign of rape” in the English town of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.

Thousands of demonstrators poured into Islamabad from across the country on Friday, including massive marches organized in the cities of Lahore and Karachi earlier this week. The protesters are largely hardline Islamists who want Prime Minister Imran Khan and his government to resign, ostensibly because they believe his 2018 election was illegitimate.

(AP) — A raging fire swept through a train in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province on Thursday, killing 74 people. Survivors said afterward it took nearly 20 minutes for the train to stop amid contradictory reports about the condition of its brakes.

Nearly 900 children in a Pakistani city tested positive for HIV, according to a Saturday report from the New York Times.

Persecution against Christians in Southeast Asia, particularly in Sri Lanka and Pakistan, has grown in severity over two years, according to a new report from Aid to the Church in Need.

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan told an audience in Beijing on Tuesday that he would like to launch a mass police action to send “500 people” to prison for corruption, emulating Chinese leader Xi Jinping.