Target Killing, Slain for Christ – Pastor William Siraj Peshawar PakistanOn 30 January, 2022 unidentified motorcyclists shot and killed a pastor in Peshawar, the capital of the Province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), after Sunday Church Service. The late Pastor was accompanied with companions, one of whom was injured in the shooting. Pastor William Siraj (75),...
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...
On October 25, 2021, the United Nations released a study indicating that Afghanistan is fast becoming the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, surpassing the needs in Ethiopia, South Sudan, Syria and Yemen. According to the World Food Program 22.8 million people could face acute hunger this winter, with 8.7 million of these at emergency levels.Forty years...
Important Update!June 23, 2023: Mummand Boota, the rapist of Aliza has been sentenced to life imprisonment by Justice Ghazala Yasmine of local court. Eight-year-old Christian Girl Aliza Raped Aliza is eight years old. Her father, Younis Masih, is a day-labourer, paid day by day to meet household needs. Aliza’s father has five children–one boy and...
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....
Tahira is the mother of Mehik, a minor girl 13 year old who was abducted, raped, and forcefully converted by Shahid Ali. With the day & night struggle of her parents Tahir & Bashir, Mehik was recovered after a few months. She later gave birth to a baby girl named Zarish. She lives with her...
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...
