Shagufta Kausar and Shafqat Emanuel, the couple accused of blasphemy and reportedly passing derogatory comments about Islam have been acquitted and freed after being jailed for seven years. Who are they? The poor Christian family hails from Gojra, a city in the Punjab district of Pakistan. Shagufta and Shafqat, a married couple in their thirties have […]
blasphemy law Pakistan
Mashal Khan’s lynching case verdict to be declared on 16th March, says Anti-Terrorism court on Tuesday.
Mashal Khan was beaten and shot to death on April 13th 2017 for blasphemy; a crime that till date has not been proven. He was a student at Mardan Abdul Wali Khan University majoring in Mass Communication. The horrendous act shook the nation and sparked a heated debate over the misusing of the blasphemy laws […]
Blasphemy law is vague, violates human rights
The Hanifi School, one of the four major schools of Sunni Islamic legal reasoning, is the most influential in our Parliament and the Federal Shariat Court. Advocate Ismael Qureshi quoted a scholar of the same school when advocating to make the punishment for blasphemy unpardonable. A textual analysis reveals the assertion to making blasphemy unpardonable was based […]