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Pakistan court sentences 4 men to death over online blasphemy

'Pakistan court sentences 4 men to death over online blasphemy'

Islamabad: A Pakistan court sentenced four men to death for posting blasphemous content online, a prosecution lawyer...

27 Jan 2025 9:36 AM

Pakistan: Mob torches police station, lynches arrested man accused of blasphemy

Pakistan: Mob torches police station, lynches arrested man accused of...

Peshawar: A Muslim mob in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday broke into a police station, snatched a man who was held...

21 Jun 2024 9:32 AM

In a file photo, a Shariah Law official uses a rattan cane to whip one of two men convicted of gay sex in Banda Aceh, Aceh province, Indonesia, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021. Two men in Indonesias conservative Aceh province were caned 77 times each after neighbors reported them to the Shariah Police for having sex. (Photo: AP)

DC Edit | Indonesia takes a step backwards

Indonesia, the world’s most populous Islamic country, appears to be changing tack, potentially tilting towards...

7 Dec 2022 6:45 PM

Blasphemy is a hugely sensitive issue in Pakistan, where even unproven allegations can stir mob violence and lynching. (Representational Photo: AFP)

Cabbages & Kings: Blasphemy & the licence to kill

Blasphemy is the verbal avatar of heresy.

12 Aug 2016 6:57 PM

Silence and unease

Silence and unease

For now, there is some damage to India in the outside world because of Mr Modi’s silence

18 Oct 2015 12:59 AM