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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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Christian Community In Pakistan Attacked, House Burnt Over Blasphemy Charges
At least five members of a minority Christian community were rescued on Saturday after a Muslim crowd attacked their settlement in eastern Pakistan, police and a community leader said.
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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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Minorities From 3 Nations Living In 2 Gujarat Districts To Get Citizenship
The centre has decided to grant Indian citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians coming from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan and currently living in two districts of Gujarat under the Citizenship Act, 1955.
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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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Pakistan's Asia Bibi's Brother-In-Law's Body Found With Throat Slit
Younus, the brother-in-law of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman convicted of blasphemy by a Pakistani court, was killed in Sheikhupura city of Punjab province in Pakistan on Monday.
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Pakistan's Asia Bibi Asks France For Political Asylum
Asia Bibi, the Pakistani Christian woman who spent years on death row after a 2010 conviction of blasphemy, said Monday that she was seeking political asylum from the French government.
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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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Asia Bibi Calls For Reform In Pakistan Blasphemy Law
Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman who was freed from death row by the Supreme Court in a high-profile sacrilege case last year that polarised the society, has called for reforms in the country's "harsh" blasphemy law, according to a media report.
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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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Asia Bibi, Christian Woman Cleared Of Blasphemy, Leaves Pakistan: Reports
A Pakistani Christian woman who spent eight years on death row over false blasphemy charges, Asia Bibi, has left the country, her lawyer and media said on Wednesday, more than six months after she was acquitted by Pakistan's top court.
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Communal Tensions In Sri Lanka After Blasts, Muslim Refugees Flee
As mourners buried the remains of Christian worshippers killed by the Easter Sunday suicide bomb attacks in Sri Lanka, hundreds of Muslim refugees fled Negombo on the country's west coast where communal tensions have flared in recent days.
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Pak Christian Freed On Blasphemy Charges But Remains Silent, Invisible
For years, Asia Bibi has been the invisible victim and villain of a high-profile drama that has divided this Muslim-majority nation, set off a chain of violent events and focused world attention on the power of religious extremism and its challenge to the Pakistani state and its powerful security forces.
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Asia Bibi's Lawyer Seeking European Nationality Amid Death Threats
The Pakistani lawyer who secured the acquittal of a Christian woman facing the death sentence for blasphemy is himself seeking protection from European governments, his French lawyer told AFP on Friday.
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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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Christian Community In Pakistan Attacked, House Burnt Over Blasphemy Charges
At least five members of a minority Christian community were rescued on Saturday after a Muslim crowd attacked their settlement in eastern Pakistan, police and a community leader said.
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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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Minorities From 3 Nations Living In 2 Gujarat Districts To Get Citizenship
The centre has decided to grant Indian citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians coming from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan and currently living in two districts of Gujarat under the Citizenship Act, 1955.
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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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Pakistan's Asia Bibi's Brother-In-Law's Body Found With Throat Slit
Younus, the brother-in-law of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman convicted of blasphemy by a Pakistani court, was killed in Sheikhupura city of Punjab province in Pakistan on Monday.
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Pakistan's Asia Bibi Asks France For Political Asylum
Asia Bibi, the Pakistani Christian woman who spent years on death row after a 2010 conviction of blasphemy, said Monday that she was seeking political asylum from the French government.
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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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Asia Bibi Calls For Reform In Pakistan Blasphemy Law
Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman who was freed from death row by the Supreme Court in a high-profile sacrilege case last year that polarised the society, has called for reforms in the country's "harsh" blasphemy law, according to a media report.
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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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Asia Bibi, Christian Woman Cleared Of Blasphemy, Leaves Pakistan: Reports
A Pakistani Christian woman who spent eight years on death row over false blasphemy charges, Asia Bibi, has left the country, her lawyer and media said on Wednesday, more than six months after she was acquitted by Pakistan's top court.
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Communal Tensions In Sri Lanka After Blasts, Muslim Refugees Flee
As mourners buried the remains of Christian worshippers killed by the Easter Sunday suicide bomb attacks in Sri Lanka, hundreds of Muslim refugees fled Negombo on the country's west coast where communal tensions have flared in recent days.
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Pak Christian Freed On Blasphemy Charges But Remains Silent, Invisible
For years, Asia Bibi has been the invisible victim and villain of a high-profile drama that has divided this Muslim-majority nation, set off a chain of violent events and focused world attention on the power of religious extremism and its challenge to the Pakistani state and its powerful security forces.
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Asia Bibi's Lawyer Seeking European Nationality Amid Death Threats
The Pakistani lawyer who secured the acquittal of a Christian woman facing the death sentence for blasphemy is himself seeking protection from European governments, his French lawyer told AFP on Friday.
