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Christian From Pak Becomes 1st Goan To Get Indian Citizenship Under New Law
Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Wednesday handed over the Indian citizenship certificate to a 78-year-old Pakistani Christian under the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, making him the first such person from the coastal state.
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UN Experts Slam Pak on Its Lack Of Protection Of Hindu, Christian Women
Expressing dismay at the continuing lack of protection women from the minority communities, especially Christians and Hindus, in Pakistan, UN experts have said the country needs to uphold its obligations under the relevant international covenant.
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Christian Couple Arrested Over Blasphemy Charges In Pak
A Pakistani Christian couple has been arrested on blasphemy charges after 'torn pages of Quran' were recovered from the rooftop of their house and in the street in Lahore, police said on Sunday.
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Christians Pray Among Rubble Of Vandalised Church In Pakistan
Christians sat among the rubble of their ransacked church for the first Sunday service since a Muslim mob rampaged through their neighbourhood in eastern Pakistan.
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87 Christian Homes, 19 Churches Vandalised In Pakistan: Police
More than 80 Christian homes and 19 churches in Pakistan were vandalised when a Muslim mob rampaged through the streets over alleged blasphemy this week, a top police official said Friday.
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Targeted Christians Found Shelter With Muslims During Pakistan Rampage
Pastor Javed Bhatti was roused from his sleep by the mosque's loudspeaker -- not the usual Islamic call to prayer, but a thundering call to protest against alleged blasphemy by Christians.
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Mob With Sticks Attacks Christian community In Pak Over Blasphemy Charges
Several churches were set on fire by a rampaging mob in eastern Pakistan on Wednesday after a Christian family was accused of blasphemy, officials said.
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Trolled For Post On Sidhu Moose Wala, Pak Singer Shae Gill Hits Back
Pakistani Singer Shae Gill, who came under severe criticism for condoling the death ofsinger Sidhu Moose Wala, has hit back at online trolls stating that since she was a Christian she could offer "prayers for people from different religions."
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Pak Court Allows Minor Christian Girl Who Converted To Islam To Go With Parents
A Pakistani court on Wednesday allowed Arzoo, an underage Christian girl who allegedly converted to Islam and contracted a "free-will marriage", to go home with her parents after she spent a year in a shelter home for women.
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Pak Christian Girl, Converted And Married To 44-Year-Old, Sent To Shelter
The Sindh High Court on Sunday ordered that the teenage Christian girl who was kidnapped before being forcefully converted and married to a Muslim man be shifted to a shelter home, Pakistan Minister for Human Rights, Shireen Mazari, said.
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Pak Court Allows Girl's Marriage To Abductor As She's Had Her "1st Menstrual Cycle"
The parents of a 14-year-old Pakistani Christian girl, who was abducted, forcibly converted to Islam and married off to her abductor, will approach the Supreme Court after a lower court ruled that marriage with an underage girl is valid as per the Sharia law if she has had her first menstrual cycle.
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Pak Slammed By Rights Group Over "Discrimination" Of Religious Minorities
The Christian Solidarity Worldwide has said in a report that discriminatory legislation by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government has empowered people with "extremist mindsets" to carry out attacks on religious minorities.
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Pak Christian Asia Bibi, Cleared Of Blasphemy, Flees To Canada
Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman who escaped a death sentence for blasphemy, began a new life in Canada Wednesday following a decade-long saga that sparked violent unrest and spotlighted religious extremism in her home country.
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Pak Rights Body Raises Concern Over Forced Conversions Of Girls
Pakistan's independent human rights watchdog on Monday raised concerns about incidents of forced conversions and marriages of Hindu and Christian girls, saying around 1,000 such cases were reported just in the southern Sindh province alone last year.
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Masood Azhar "Is In Pakistan," Admits Foreign Minister Amid Pulwama Outrage
Terror mastermind Masood Azhar, whose Jaish-e-Mohammed carried out the Pulwama attack in which 40 Indian soldiers were killed, is in Pakistan, its Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has confirmed.
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Christian From Pak Becomes 1st Goan To Get Indian Citizenship Under New Law
Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Wednesday handed over the Indian citizenship certificate to a 78-year-old Pakistani Christian under the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, making him the first such person from the coastal state.
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UN Experts Slam Pak on Its Lack Of Protection Of Hindu, Christian Women
Expressing dismay at the continuing lack of protection women from the minority communities, especially Christians and Hindus, in Pakistan, UN experts have said the country needs to uphold its obligations under the relevant international covenant.
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Christian Couple Arrested Over Blasphemy Charges In Pak
A Pakistani Christian couple has been arrested on blasphemy charges after 'torn pages of Quran' were recovered from the rooftop of their house and in the street in Lahore, police said on Sunday.
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Christians Pray Among Rubble Of Vandalised Church In Pakistan
Christians sat among the rubble of their ransacked church for the first Sunday service since a Muslim mob rampaged through their neighbourhood in eastern Pakistan.
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87 Christian Homes, 19 Churches Vandalised In Pakistan: Police
More than 80 Christian homes and 19 churches in Pakistan were vandalised when a Muslim mob rampaged through the streets over alleged blasphemy this week, a top police official said Friday.
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Targeted Christians Found Shelter With Muslims During Pakistan Rampage
Pastor Javed Bhatti was roused from his sleep by the mosque's loudspeaker -- not the usual Islamic call to prayer, but a thundering call to protest against alleged blasphemy by Christians.
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Mob With Sticks Attacks Christian community In Pak Over Blasphemy Charges
Several churches were set on fire by a rampaging mob in eastern Pakistan on Wednesday after a Christian family was accused of blasphemy, officials said.
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Trolled For Post On Sidhu Moose Wala, Pak Singer Shae Gill Hits Back
Pakistani Singer Shae Gill, who came under severe criticism for condoling the death ofsinger Sidhu Moose Wala, has hit back at online trolls stating that since she was a Christian she could offer "prayers for people from different religions."
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Pak Court Allows Minor Christian Girl Who Converted To Islam To Go With Parents
A Pakistani court on Wednesday allowed Arzoo, an underage Christian girl who allegedly converted to Islam and contracted a "free-will marriage", to go home with her parents after she spent a year in a shelter home for women.
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Pak Christian Girl, Converted And Married To 44-Year-Old, Sent To Shelter
The Sindh High Court on Sunday ordered that the teenage Christian girl who was kidnapped before being forcefully converted and married to a Muslim man be shifted to a shelter home, Pakistan Minister for Human Rights, Shireen Mazari, said.
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Pak Court Allows Girl's Marriage To Abductor As She's Had Her "1st Menstrual Cycle"
The parents of a 14-year-old Pakistani Christian girl, who was abducted, forcibly converted to Islam and married off to her abductor, will approach the Supreme Court after a lower court ruled that marriage with an underage girl is valid as per the Sharia law if she has had her first menstrual cycle.
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Pak Slammed By Rights Group Over "Discrimination" Of Religious Minorities
The Christian Solidarity Worldwide has said in a report that discriminatory legislation by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government has empowered people with "extremist mindsets" to carry out attacks on religious minorities.
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Pak Christian Asia Bibi, Cleared Of Blasphemy, Flees To Canada
Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman who escaped a death sentence for blasphemy, began a new life in Canada Wednesday following a decade-long saga that sparked violent unrest and spotlighted religious extremism in her home country.
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Pak Rights Body Raises Concern Over Forced Conversions Of Girls
Pakistan's independent human rights watchdog on Monday raised concerns about incidents of forced conversions and marriages of Hindu and Christian girls, saying around 1,000 such cases were reported just in the southern Sindh province alone last year.
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Masood Azhar "Is In Pakistan," Admits Foreign Minister Amid Pulwama Outrage
Terror mastermind Masood Azhar, whose Jaish-e-Mohammed carried out the Pulwama attack in which 40 Indian soldiers were killed, is in Pakistan, its Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has confirmed.
