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Supporters of a religious group 'Tehreek-e-Labiak Pakistan' chant slogans during a rally against a woman who recently arrested in the blasphemy charges, in Lahore, Pakistan, April 17, 2023. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary, File)
Pakistani court sentences 4 people to death for blasphemy
A Pakistani court has sentenced four people to death for blasphemy. Under the country’s blasphemy laws, anyone found guilty of insulting Islam or its religious figures can be sentenced to death.
 
Vehicles move slow due to reduced visibility caused by smog enveloping the area of Lahore, Pakistan, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
Pakistan employs new measures to deal with nearly 70,000 people affected daily by hazardous smog
Pakistan introduced mobile clinics and added more beds in hospitals to treat the nearly 70,000 patients received daily with respiratory-related diseases as hazardous smog continued to shroud the country’s east.
 
Family of Shah Nawaz, a doctor who was accused of blasphemy, from left, mother Rehmat Kunbhar, wife Niamat Bibi, and daughter Hareem Nawaz, speak to media at their residence in Umerkot, a district in the Pakistan's Sindh province, Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024. The family said Monday that Shah Nawaz was killed by police while in custody in southern Pakistan after he voluntarily surrendered following assurances that he would be given a chance to prove his innocence, denying a police account that he was accidentally killed in a shootout. (AP Photo/Allah Bux)
Pakistani police are responsible for killing a doctor held in a blasphemy claim, the government says
Pakistan’s government says its investigation shows that police had orchestrated the killing of a doctor accused of blasphemy while he was held in custody last week.
 
Family of Shah Nawaz, a doctor who was accused of blasphemy, from left, mother Rehmat Kunbhar, wife Niamat Bibi, and daughter Hareem Nawaz, speak to media at their residence in Umerkot, a district in the Pakistan's Sindh province, Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024. The family said Monday that Shah Nawaz was killed by police while in custody in southern Pakistan after he voluntarily surrendered following assurances that he would be given a chance to prove his innocence, denying a police account that he was accidentally killed in a shootout. (AP Photo/Allah Bux)
The family of a doctor accused of blasphemy in Pakistan says police killed him in a fake encounter
The family of a doctor accused of blasphemy says he was killed by police while in custody in southern Pakistan after he voluntarily surrendered following assurances that he would be given a chance to prove his innocence, denying a police account that he was accidentally killed in a shootout.
 
A health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child at a school in Peshawar, Pakistan, Monday, Sept. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)
Pakistan police arrest key suspect in gang rape of a woman polio worker
Pakistani police say they have arrested the key suspect in the gang rape of a woman polio worker who was assaulted by three men during last week’s vaccination campaign. Two other suspects in the case are still at large.
 
In this photo released by the Pakistan Air Force, bodies of Shiite Muslim pilgrims who were killed in a bus crash in Iran while heading to Iraq for a pilgrimage, arrive at an airbase in Jacobabad, Pakistan, Saturday, Aug. 24, 2024. (Pakistan Air Force via AP)
Mourners in southern Pakistan attend funerals for 28 Shiite pilgrims killed in a bus crash in Iran
Hundreds of mourners in southern Pakistan have attended the funerals of 28 Shiite pilgrims who were killed in a bus crash in Iran this week while heading to Iraq.
 
Most suspects in a 2023 anti-Christian rampage in Pakistan are still at large, a rights group says
Amnesty International says most of the suspects in a rampage last year against minority Christians in eastern Pakistan over alleged blasphemy are still at large and authorities have failed to deliver justice to the victims.
 
People celebrate Pakistani Arshad Nadeem's javelin throw gold medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics, in Khanewal District of Punjab province, Pakistan, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Asim Tanveer)
Pakistan celebrates Arshad Nadeem’s Olympic gold medal in javelin
Pakistanis are celebrating the victory of Arshad Nadeem who while competing against the defending champion Neeraj Chopra of India overnight set a record by throwing javelin 92.97 meters (305 feet) at the Paris Olympics.
 
This is a locator map for Pakistan with its capital, Islamabad, and the Kashmir region. (AP Photo)
Pakistani court sentences Christian man to death for posting hateful content against Muslims
A court in Pakistan sentenced a Christian man to death for sharing what it said was hateful content against Muslims on social media after one of the worst mob attacks on Christians in the eastern Punjab province last year.
 
Pakistani court sentences man to death and teenager to life in prison for insulting Islam’s prophet
Officials say a Pakistani court has sentenced a 22-year-old student to death and given a life sentence to a teenager after finding them guilty of insulting Islam’s Prophet Muhammad. Both had denied the charges and have the right to appeal.
 
Pakistani people closed their shops during protest against the Mastung bombing alleging that the government's indifference caused the heavy loss of lives in Quetta, Pakistan, Sunday, Oct. 1, 2023. A suspected suicide bomber blew himself up among a crowd of people celebrating the Prophet Muhammad's birthday in southwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing more then 50 people and wounding dozens others, authorities said, in one of the country's deadliest attacks targeting civilians in months. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)
Pakistani Taliban attack a police post in eastern Punjab province, killing 1 officer
Pakistani Taliban fighters have attacked a police post in eastern Punjab province, killing one officer and injuring three others. That triggered a shootout in which two of the attackers were killed.
 
Mob attacks on Christian churches and homes in Pakistan set off by false implication, police say
Police say last month’s mob attacks on churches and homes of Christians in eastern Pakistan erupted after three Christians falsely implicated two others in a blasphemy case due to a personal dispute.
 
Pakistani christians Prayer for Jaranwala christians after the recent attack on a Christian area by an angry Muslim mob, In Lahore, Pakistan, Sunday, Aug. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
Pakistan hands out cash to Christians who lost homes in rioting over alleged desecration of Quran
Pakistani authorities have handed out $6,800 to each of the nearly 100 Christian families whose homes were destroyed or damaged by a Muslim mob angered over an alleged desecration of the Quran last week.
 
Youngsters look at a church vandalized by angry Muslim mob in Jaranwala near Faisalabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023. Muslims in eastern Pakistan went on a rampage Wednesday over allegations that a Christian man had desecrated the Quran, demolishing the man's house, burning churches and damaging several other homes, police and local Christians said. There were no immediate reports of casualties. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
Muslim mobs attack churches in eastern Pakistan after accusing Christians of desecrating the Quran
Police say a Muslim mob has attacked a Christian area in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province, burning a church, damaging four others and demolishing a man’s house after accusing him of desecrating Islam’s holy book.
 
Workers repair a railway track at the site of Sunday's train derailed incident, near Nawabshah, a district of Pakistan's southern Sindh province, Monday, Aug. 7, 2023. Ten cars of a passenger train derailed in southern Pakistan on Sunday, killing at least 30 people and injuring more than 90 others, officials said. (AP Photo/Muhammad Osama)
Rail service in southern Pakistan is partially restored after train crash that killed 30 people
Officials say engineers have partially restored passenger rail service in southern Pakistan, a day after a passenger train derailed there, killing at least 30 people and injuring 90.
 
Local residents examine damaged cars of a passenger train which was derailed near Nawabshah, Pakistan, Sunday, Aug. 6, 2023. Railway officials say some passengers were killed and dozens more injured when a train derailed near the town of Nawabshah in southern Sindh province. (AP Photo/Pervez Masih)
Express train derails in southern Pakistan, killing 30 people and injuring more than 90
Ten cars of an express train derailed in southern Pakistan on Sunday, killing 30 people and injuring more than 90 others. The Hazara Express train was going from Karachi to Rawalpindi when the cars went off the tracks and some overturned.
 
Pakistan arrests 7 Shiite militants, foils possible attacks
Pakistan’s counter-terrorism police say they have arrested seven militants from an outlawed Shiite group and foiled a plot to target the leadership of rival majority Sunni groups.
 
Pakistani PM inaugurates pilgrim border crossing with India
Pakistan’s prime minister has attended the groundbreaking ceremony for the first visa-free border crossing with India, a corridor that will allow Sikh pilgrims to easily visit their shrines on each side of the border.
 
Pakistan arrests 1100 supporters of detained cleric
Police in Pakistan have arrested some 1100 supporters of a detained radical Islamic cleric who disrupted daily life with nationwide rallies following the acquittal of a Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy.
 
Protests in Pakistan delay release of Christian woman
The release of a Christian woman in Pakistan, acquitted eight years after being sentenced to death for blasphemy, has been delayed after authorities agreed to bar her from flying abroad following talks with radical Islamists who want her publicly hanged.