Pakistan

By BosNewsLife Asia Service reporting from Pakistan LAHORE, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- An impoverished Pakistani Christian has been forced to sell his kidney to pay off a loan he took from his Muslim boss to finance his daughter's education, the father and Christians said Tuesday, May 11.

KHAR/BAJAUR, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Minority Christians and other residents in northwest Pakistan braced for more violence Friday, November 7, after suicide bombers killed at least a dozen pro-government Pakistani tribesmen and security forces in two major attacks, government officials told BosNewsLife.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A major rights group expressed concerns Tuesday, November 3, that prominent Islamic political parties are obstructing efforts to amend of repeal Pakistan's blasphemy legislation under which Christians have been detained across the country.

By Xavier P. William, BosNewsLife Special Correspondent reporting from Pakistan FAISALABAD/ISLAMABAD (BosNewsLife)-- Gun battles broke out in a predominantly Christian neighborhood of the Pakistani city of Faisalabad Monday, July 19, shortly after two Christian evangelists were shot and killed by suspected Islamic militants, witnesses told BosNewsLife.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service reporting from Pakistan ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Pakistani authorities are investigating Pakistan Air Force (PAF) police for allegedly torturing a Christian family, including a teenager, who doctors say may remain crippled for the rest of her life, BosNewsLife established Friday, April 30.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service reporting from Pakistan ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Citing “terrorism threats”, the government of Pakistan's Punjab province banned protests Monday, March 22, against the “refusal” by police to detain those who burned a Christian man for not converting to Islam, while raping his wife.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A Pakistani court has acquitted a Christian woman who spent nearly six months in prison with her infant son in the country's Punjab province on "a false charge of blasphemy", her defense team told BosNewsLife.

By Jawad Mazhar Special Correspondent BosNewsLife reporting from Pakistan GUJRANWALA, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A Christian sanitation worker was struggling for his life Tuesday, December 15, in a hospital of Pakistan's Punjab province after two Christian co-workers already died because Muslim employers apparently poisoned them, police and family confirmed.

By Jawad Mazhar, BosNewsLife Special Correspondent reporting from Pakistan HANGGU, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Minority Christians and other non-Muslims faced potential persecution Tuesday, December 30, as militants linked to Taliban and Al-Qaeda groups imposed Shariah, or Islamic law, in the Orakzai Agency tribal region of the restive Pakistani North West Frontier Province (NWFP), officials told BosNewsLife.