Tag: Antiblasphemy

Saad Hussain Rizvi insists his party Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan will be back (AFP)Lahore: The leader of an ultra-right Pakistan party infamous for sometimes bloody anti-blasphemy agitation has vowed a comeback after its vote share evaporated in elections last week.Blasphemy is a charged topic in Muslim-majority Pakistan where the faintest whisper ...

KARACHI, Pakistan A mainstream Pakistani religious party has hailed Russian President Vladimir Putin's stance against blasphemy.Siraj-ul-Haq, the chief of Jamaat-e-Islami, in an open letter to Putin released to the media on Monday, thanked him for drawing the world's attention to Muslims' feelings against offensive language or publication of blasphemous ...

Amid the chaotic attack in Sialkot, security cameras and television news videos recorded workers taking selfies and chanting religious slogans. “We told the foreman what had done, but he ran away. Then we all rushed to find the manager, and we sent him to hell,” one young worker, ...

The Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy (IMSD) has opposed the demand of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) and some other organisations for an anti-blasphemy law in India, terming it unconstitutional.The IMSD statement has been endorsed by nearly 400 citizens, a large majority of whom are Muslims.“We ...

Pakistan’s parliament will consider whether the French envoy should be expelled after increasing pressure and violent protests from the hardline, now-banned Islamic political group Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP). The interior minister, Sheikh Rashid, went on national TV to explain that “after long negotiations between the government of Pakistan and the ...

Pakistan’s interior minister has confirmed that 11 police officers who were taken hostage by Islamist radicals during violent anti-France demonstrations last weekend have been released but more talks are needed to resolve issues. In a series of video messages published on Monday, Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad said that ...

A Pakistani immigrant suspected of stabbing two people outside the former offices of the Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris followed a South Asian Islamic sect that in Pakistan has become increasingly emboldened, and on occasion sparked violence, in defending the central figure in Islam from what adherents see as ...