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Pakistan’s blasphemy law



Pakistan court declares senior police officer fugitive in ‘staged killing’ of blasphemy suspect

  • Dr. Shahnawaz Kunbhar was arrested in Karachi in Sept. 2024, later killed in what a government inquiry found to be a staged police encounter
  • Pakistan’s blasphemy laws carry a mandatory death penalty, have often fueled mob violence, prosecutions of police in such cases are rare
By NAIMAT KHAN ·

Pakistani court sentences four people to death for blasphemy

By AP ·

Why is blasphemy such a sensitive issue in Pakistan?

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