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A Christian husband and wife in Pakistan who are facing execution for sending “blasphemous” texts must be released immediately, Amnesty International has said amid a worrying rise in blasphemy accusations in the country. The human rights group said Shagufta Kausar and Shafqat Emmanuel have been imprisoned since 2013 and were convicted and sentenced to death in April 2014 by a court in Toba Tek Singh. The couple were accused of sending...

A court in Pakistan has indefinitely delayed an appeal hearing for a Christian couple who have been on death row since 2014 after being convicted of blasphemy. Shagufta Kausar and Shafqat Emmanuel, imprisoned since 2013, were sentenced to death under Pakistan’s notoriously draconian blasphemy laws for allegedly sending “blasphemous texts” that insulted the prophet Muhammad to a cleric. The texts were sent via a sim card that was registered in...

LAHORE, Pakistan - A Pakistani court Wednesday adjourned without hearing a much-awaited appeal from a Christian couple facing the death penalty for the ...

Marriyum Aurangzeb says party has fielded seven candidates, without elaborating which three will be eventually dropped. — AP/File LAHORE: The PML-N’s announcement about nominating five more candidates for Senate seats from Punjab has created confusion among the party ranks. Party Information Secretary Marriyum Aurangzeb issued a statement on Sunday declaring that the PML-N’s parliamentary board has nominated seven candidates for the Senate polls from Punjab after five more were directed to submit their candidatures to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) for the purpose. The fi...

By News Desk LAHORE: Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Political Communication Shehbaz Gill has said homes for the poor will be constructed on land retrieved from the “land mafia” in different parts of Punjab. Talking to the media in Punjabi after appearing in a defamation case here on Saturday, he said the government would provide easy loans to the poor to build homes on the land worth “billions of rupees” which had been vacated from the alleged land mafia in Lahore and other cities. Gill said: “No Khokhar or Jati Umra Palaces, but homes for the poor will be built on the retri...