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10-year-old Pakistani girl expelled, accused of blasphemy for misspelling Islamic term
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A 10-year-old Christian girl, Faryal Bhatti, has had to go into hiding with her single mother after she misplaced a dot on her Urdu-language spelling test. Faryal was a fifth grader at Sir Syed Girls High School at the Pakistan Ordinance Factory Colony in Havelian. She is now accused of blasphemy under Pakistan’s religious laws…
High court orders Pakistan to let Hindus worship in historic temple
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Pakistan’s Peshawar High Court on Thursday ordered the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to allow Hindus to worship in a temple closed after Pakistan’s independence 64 years ago. A two-member judicial panel comprised of Chief Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan and Justice Waqar Ahmed Seth approved the petition of a Hindu woman, Phool Vati, and directed the…
Condemned Pakistani Christian prays Finland will overturn his asylum denial
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Clive Trevor, who fled his native Pakistan with his family after he was accused of blasphemy by a Muslim cleric, is praying that Finland will give him sanctuary, reports the Pakistan Christian Post, an online newspaper. After months in hiding in fear of arrest or death at the hands of radical Muslims, he and his family…
Christian Pakistani nurse asks police to arrest her videotaped rapist
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A Christian nurse here has told police she was raped by a Muslim co-worker who filmed the act and showed it to her family in an attempt to blackmail her into renouncing her faith and marrying him. Christians have little legal or societal standing in Pakistan — and Muslim criminals tend to assume they will…
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