Maulana Nigar Alam, a Muslim cleric, was killed by a mob at a political rally in Mardan in May 2023 after some participants interpreted words in his concluding prayer...
A Chinese engineer accused of blasphemy at the Dasu Hydropower Project in 2023 was protected by police as crowds mobilized. He reached court safely and was later granted bail.
Muhammad Waris was already in police custody when a mob stormed Warburton Police Station in Nankana Sahib in 2023, dragged him from his cell and lynched him over a...
An eight-year-old Hindu boy was accused of blasphemy in Bhong in 2021. After a court granted him bail, a mob attacked and damaged a Hindu temple before authorities intervened.
Mashal Khan, a 23-year-old university student, was lynched in Mardan in 2017 after being accused of blasphemy. A later official investigation found no evidence supporting the allegation.
An alleged blasphemous Facebook post triggered mob violence against Ahmadi families in Gujranwala in July 2014. A woman and her two young granddaughters died when homes were set on...
Shagufta Kausar and Shafqat Emmanuel were sentenced to death in 2014 over alleged blasphemous text messages. After seven years on death row, Lahore High Court acquitted the Christian couple...
A blasphemy allegation against Sawan Masih triggered mass violence in Lahore's Joseph Colony in 2013. More than 100 Christian homes were burned. Seven years later, the Lahore High Court...
Rimsha Masih was a Christian child with learning difficulties when she was arrested for blasphemy in Islamabad in 2012. After alleged evidence tampering came to light, the Islamabad High...
In July 2012, a homeless man accused of burning the Quran was taken into police custody in Channi Goth. A crowd of more than 1,000 stormed the station, lynched...
