Islamabad, Pakistan February 3, 2022.This was the day we, Nadeem Bhatti & Nawab Bibi his wife, visited Zafar in jail. He shared with us that around 9am that day, a Muslim prisoner named Anwar began to shout and blame him for cursing Muslims.The policeman on duty intervened and inquired from the other prisoners. The other...
Two Christian Brothers Murdered by Muslim Neighbors in Okara City, Pakistan According to details of the First Investigation Report lodged by Indriyas Masih, Haroon Masih and Yaqoob Masih cultivate land as tenants, a common practice in Pakistan as many don’t own their own land....
Statistics Regarding Victims of Blasphemy Laws (1987-2021)Presentation by the lawyer Akmal Bhatti, director of the Minorities Alliance Pakistan (MAP) To the press conference “Is Suspension of Pakistan’s GSP+ Status Overdue?” at the Press Club Brussels, hosted by Human Rights Without Frontiers (HRWF) Brussels, 9 September 2021PAKISTAN – From 1987 to August of 2021, 1,865 people...
From New York To Pakistan, Brothers Fight Blasphemy Accusation A flyer outside Pakistan’s Ministry of Religious Affairs in Islamabad explains that the punishment for blasphemy is beheading. Creative Commons photo.Pakistani Christians are often relegated to undesirable jobs such as manual sewage cleaning, but Nadeem Samson’s small business selling herbal medicines was doing so well in 2016...
A Christian couple, Shagufta Kausar and Shafqat Emmanuel, are currently facing the death penalty. They are charged with sending ‘blasphemous’ texts to a mosque cleric from a phone sim card registered in Shagufta’s name. The couple has consistently denied all allegations. They believe that somehow Shagufta’s National Identity Card was compromised and misused against them....
Zafar Bhatti Story Zafar is a 56-year-old Pakistani pastor who has been in Rawalpindi’s Central Jail since July 2012, when he was falsely charged with sending blasphemous text messages. On May 3, 2017, Zafar was sentenced to life imprisonment for blasphemy, a charge he denies. The mobile phone in question was not even registered to...
CAPC Correspondence Lahore, Pakistan Story March 6, 2021 The two women and two men, two water canals. The two dead bodies. The women were Christian sisters. The men were Muslim co-workers. The bodies were of women, discovered in each water canal. The men were accused of murdering them. This murder took place in Makhan colony...
Accept Forceful Conversion and Marriage or Get a Bullet in Your Head “My daughter could have saved her life if she had agreed to run away with the boy, change her religion and agreed to the forced marriage”, said Teresa the victim’s mother. RAWALPINDI, PAKISTAN. The religious minorities, especially Christians living in the rural areas...
Man Gunned Down in Church Construction Riot in Pakistan CAPC Correspondent Latest February 2021 “Azeem is still unable to communicate and is half paralyzed from the right shoulder down. It is almost one year since my son got shot in the head in the mob attack regarding the church construction dispute and he is still...
Pakistani Family Shares Trauma After Facing Forced Conversion Canadian Aid to Persecuted Christians Photo credit to Huma & family Huma Younus , 14, was abducted by a Muslim man, who forcefully married and had her converted to Islam.According to her mother, Nagina Younas, Huma was abducted from her home in the southern city of Karachi...
