On January 28th, the terrorist convicted (and later acquitted) of the 2002 abduction and beheading of Daniel Pearl, was ordered to be released by Pakistan’s Supreme Court.  The court also dismissed an appeal of the killer’s, Ahmad Saeed Omar Sheikh, acquittal filed by Pearl’s family and the Pakistani government.
 

Morer than 600 poor Pakistani girls and women have been sold as brides to China over a period of nearly two years.

Pakistani Prime Minister is interested into reforming madrassas, the Islamic seminaries that have educated poor children for decades.

A Christian woman Asia Bibi, who was convicted under the Pakistani’s blasphemy law, cleared after nine years on death row.

In Gujarat, India, a high court has released a man accused of rape, as the victim was his own wife. They cited that no law exists to punish a man when his rape victim is his wife.

In Pakistan, a rickshaw carrying a family was attacked by ISIS members and they were targeted for being Christians. All three members of the family were killed, along with the rickshaw driver.