The Pakistan high court has dismissed the blasphemy case against Rimsha Masih, a 14-year-old Christian girl who was accused of desecrating pages of a religious text. Though it was a first of its kind judgement, the blasphemy law has been often used against the minorities, says Tahir Ali.
A young, mentally-challenged Christian girl accused of blasphemy has been moved from the police headquarters in Pakistani capital Islamabad to an undisclosed location for security reasons, days after she was granted bail in the controversial case that has sparked international concern.
The Pakistan police on Saturday said they had found no evidence that young Christian girl Rimsha Masih had committed blasphemy by desecrating pages of a religious text.
Right-wing politics all over the world seeks to victimise the weak and powerless by falsely claiming victimhood, says Shivam Vij
A bipartisan group of six American Senators has written a letter to Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, asking him to address the growing religious intolerance in his country and release the minor Christian girl arrested on a blasphemy charge.
District and Sessions Judge Jawad Abbas of Islamabad said the bail hearing will be conducted on September after he sought clarification on how the medical examination of the girl, Rimsha Masih, was conducted.
A minor Christian girl, who was arrested last month after being falsely accused of blasphemy, was on Friday granted bail by a Pakistani court, a case that has drawn concern from Western governments and the Vatican.
A young Christian girl arrested on a blasphemy charge that has sparked an international outcry will remain in a high-security jail till at least Friday as the court hearing her case was adjourned on Monday.
Rimsha Masih, who was arrested from the low-income Mehria Jaffar area on the outskirts of Islamabad on August 16, was produced in the court of a judicial magistrate amidst tight security.
A minor Christian girl arrested on a blasphemy charge in Islamabad continues to be held in a high-security jail despite her case being taken up by Pakistan's ruling Pakistan People's Party.
In a new twist to the blasphemy case involving a minor Christian girl, an imam in the on Sunday for allegedly planting pages of the Quran in her bag and using it to implicate her under the controversial law.
A Pakistani Christian girl accused of desecrating the holy Quran is a minor and suffers from some form of mental impairment, a medical board has concluded, according to rights activists on Tuesday.
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