Police said on June 24th that a 14-year-old boy in Pakistan reportedly stabbed a man belonging to the country’s Shia Muslim minority to death for allegedly speaking against the companions of the Prophet Muhammad in Punjab province.
A 14-year-old kid named Rehan stabbed an elderly man repeatedly and killed him in the Pakistani city of Gujrat, Punjab after a sectarian debate. pic.twitter.com/BO0aAOjVue
A Pakistani court sentenced a Christian man to death for reportedly sharing what it claimed was hateful content against Muslims on social media after one of the worst mob attacks on Christians in the eastern province of Punjab last year, his lawyer said, adding they will appeal the verdict.
Authorities in Pakistan have begun an investigation to identify and arrest members of a Muslim mob in northwestern Pakistan that ransacked a police station, snatched a man held there, and lynched him after he was accused of blasphemy after he reportedly desecrated a Quran.
Local authorities detained a man in Pakistan in a mental hospital after he applied to set up the first gay club in the conservative, Muslim-majority nation.
A man who tried to open Pakistan's first gay club was admitted to a mental hospital by Pakistani authorities. pic.twitter.com/NIYrANK262
A Christian father and son were attacked by hundreds of enraged Muslims in eastern Pakistan over allegations that the son desecrated pages of the Quran, leaving their house as well as their shoemaking factory ransacked and burned.
The angry Muslim mob went on a rampage on May 25th when locals claimed they saw burnt pages of the Quran outside the two Christian men’s house and accused the son of being behind it. The mob then set their house and shoemaking factory on fire and attacked the son.
A woman was saved from an angry mob in Pakistan after she was accused of blasphemy due to the Arabic inscriptions in her dress, which were mistaken for verses in the Quran.
An angry mob in #Pakistan accused a woman who wore a dress adorned with Arabic calligraphy of blasphemy, after mistaking them for Qur'an verses.https://t.co/gkYvZ92nrZ
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) noted that one in five girls worldwide, or 650 million women, were forced to marry as children.
Despite efforts by institutions such as the United Nations to put an end to child and forced marriages (CFM), they are still prevalent in many parts of the world. In a remote province in Pakistan, a woman and her family are putting up a fight against an outdated and illegal tradition of forced marriage in their village that has haunted her for much of her life.
Four individuals in Pakistan were sentenced to death on September 4th for blasphemy for sharing content deemed insulting to the Prophet Muhammad and the Holy Quran, while one convict was sentenced to seven years in prison in the case.
