A high-ranking Pakistani politician, who negotiated the release of kidnapped Christians and fought against controversial blasphemy laws, says he and his family are in life danger after receiving threatening phone calls from suspected Islamic militants.
A Christian woman remained in hospital Monday, June 28, after she was beaten and briefly abducted on the orders of a prominent Pakistani Muslim legislator “because Christians didn’t vote” for him, family and police said.
Pakistani police freed a Christian girl who was kidnapped and raped by five Muslim militants with the apparent support from “religious leaders”, but the suspects escaped, her family said Wednesday, June 16.
Impoverished frail parents were still awaiting justice Monday, June 14, for the death of their son who they and Christian investigators said died of “mental and physical torture” while in police custody in the city of Lahore.
Three Christian workers were detained and “tortured” by police and dismissed from their jobs in Pakistan’s Punjab province for wearing a crucifix and church visits on Sundays, according to statements from the men, their priest and family members Wednesday, May 12. Local police said the Christians were taken into custody because of suspected “alcohol” related offenses.
An impoverished Pakistani Christian has been forced to sell his kidney to pay off a loan he took from his Muslim boss to finance his daughter’s education, the father and Christians said Tuesday, May 11.
Pakistani authorities are investigating Pakistan Air Force (PAF) police for allegedly torturing a Christian family, including a teenager, who doctors say may remain crippled for the rest of her life, BosNewsLife established Friday, April 30.
A Muslim employer allegedly beat two Christian siblings with an iron rod killing one and seriously injuring the other in Pakistan’s Punjab province, an advocacy group said Thursday, April 29.
Three Christian sewage workers have died in a toxic accident in Pakistan’s Punjab province because employers refused to equip them with life saving appliances, Christian relatives said Thursday, April 22.
Police have arrested a local branch manager of Pakistan’s Khushali Bank Limited (KBL) in Punjab province for allegedly using force to recover a bank loan from a Christian entrepreneur, who later died of a heart attack, leaving behind a wife and three children, government officials said Wednesday, April 14.
The leader of a major Christian mission group has urged the government of Pakistan and Punjab province to condemn an attack by armed suspected Muslim militants on a church compound.