by Nasir Iqbal in Dawn, Dec 9th, 2023ISLAMABAD: Chairman the Implementation of Minority Rights Forum, Samuel Makson Payara, on Friday moved a fresh application before the Supreme Court seeking early fixation of Aug 16 tragic Jaranwala incident case in which 20 churches and over a dozen homes belonging to the Christian community were damaged. A two-page application reminded that at the last hearing on Sept 8, a three-judge Supreme Court bench, comprising Justice Ijazul Ahsan,…
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report in The Express Tribune, Sept 28, 2023ISLAMABAD: Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) Chairman Dr Qibla Ayaz reiterated on Wednesday the CII’s demand for the establishment of special courts to expeditiously hear cases related to crimes like the Jaranwala incident and punish the perpetrators. Addressing a press conference after the 234th special session of the CII, titled ‘Interfaith Harmony: State and Society’s Responsibilities’, he urged the public not to take the law into their own…
by Tariq Saeed in Dawn, September 4th, 2023TOBA TEK SINGH: In the ongoing investigation of the Jaranwala Quran desecration case, one of the arrested suspects has told police that he hired a hitman, Allah Ditta Maseeh, and provided him with money and motorcycle to eliminate his opponent, the main suspect in the desecration incident. When Ditta’s attempt to assassinate the target failed, the suspect devised a plan involving the desecration of the Quran to frame…
report on Dawn.com, August 25, 2023A fact-finding mission of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has suspected that Jaranwala rioters were not a “spontaneous or random crowd”, but were a part of a “larger campaign of hatred against local Christians”. On August 16, a violent mob of hundreds ransacked and torched nearly two dozen churches, and attacked the residences of members of the Christian community and the office of the local assistant commissioner in…
by Anwar Iqbal in Dawn, August 26, 2023UNITED NATIONS: Hundreds of Pakistani Christians protested outside the UN headquarters on Thursday evening, urging the world body to take decisive action to protect Christians from mob attacks. Although it was a working day, about 1,000 Christians came from across the US east coast to “show how the mob attacks in Jaranwala have hurt every Christian,” said James Cyprian, one of the organisers of the rally. The park…
Report in Dawn, August 21st, 2023SAHIWAL: Police booked and arrested a Christian youth under the blasphemy law and Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PECA) 2016 for reposting and resharing hate material (letter), which had contributed to spread of violence against the Christian community in Jaranwala. The youth was arrested from Chak 186/9-L on Sunday. The youth was booked in the first information report (FIR) under Section 11 of PECA 2016, Section 7 of the ATA…
Report in Dawn, August 21st, 2023SAHIWAL: Police booked and arrested a Christian youth under the blasphemy law and Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PECA) 2016 for reposting and resharing hate material (letter), which had contributed to spread of violence against the Christian community in Jaranwala. The youth was arrested from Chak 186/9-L on Sunday. The youth was booked in the first information report (FIR) under Section 11 of PECA 2016, Section 7 of the ATA…
AFP in The News, August 20, 2023LAHORE: A Muslim cleric is among a dozen people being investigated for using mosque loudspeakers to order protests against alleged blasphemy by Christians which erupted into mob violence in Jaranwala earlier this week, a senior police official said. More than 80 Christian homes and 19 churches were vandalised when hundreds rampaged through a Christian neighbourhood in Jaranwala in Punjab province on Wednesday. Reports that a Quran had been desecrated…
REPORT in The News, August 20, 2023LAHORE : Former Punjab Minister for Human Rights and Minority Affairs Ijaz Alam Augustine along with various religious leaders spoke at a press conference held at the Lahore Press Club on Saturday to bring out the facts of the Jaranwala tragedy and to expose the elements who made a deal with the oppressed victims. In a joint press conference, some demands were made from the Punjab government, including setting…
Editorial in Dawn, August 18th, 2023THE paroxysm of violence in Faisalabad’s Jaranwala area on Wednesday chillingly demonstrated to the Christian community, indeed to adherents of all minority faiths in the country, that they are defenceless against the rage of the mob. That over 600 people were booked on terrorism charges for their role in the rioting is a belated and anaemic demonstration of the ‘writ of the state’. From all accounts, the state was nowhere…
by Asif Chaudhry | Tariq Saeed in Dawn, August 17th, 2023• Violence stoked by rumours of alleged desecration of holy book, relayed through mosque announcements• FIR registered under blasphemy charges, no case against mob so far• Section 144 imposed; Rangers called in to avert further violenceLAHORE / TOBA TEK SINGH: A violent mob of hundreds ransacked and torched five churches, attacked the residences of members of the Christian community and the office of the local…