New Delhi, March 6 (IANS) Food adulteration has become so widespread in Pakistan that it now threatens everyday survival rather than merely compromising consumer choice, a new report has said.The report from Daily Mirror said adulteration ranges across products from synthetic milk and fake cheese to contaminated spices, cooking oil, meat and bottled water.In Pakistan, a most dangerous public health emergency has unfolded gradually, almost invisibly, inside kitchens and marketplaces, the report s…
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Islamabad, March 4 (IANS) A minority Christian boy in Pakistan was forcibly converted to Islam, highlighting yet another case of injustice against vulnerable communities, said a leading minority rights group. According to the Voice of Pakistan Minority (VOPM), 14-year-old Jameel Masih, from Sheikhupura district in Punjab, had worked at a local landlord’s cattle shed for five years before being abducted. His father, Sharif Masih, a daily wage labourer, had exchanged his son’s labour for five …
Islamabad, Feb 25 (IANS) A growing number of people are being accused of blasphemy for digital crimes in Pakistan, with human rights group terming it as “blasphemy business” in which fabricated evidence, digitally doctored screenshots or false witness statements are used for filing police complaints. A recent report has highlighted that, In December 2025, the Lahore High Court’s Rawalpindi bench acquitted six people who had been sentenced to either life imprisonment or death in a digital blasphe…
Islamabad, Feb 18 (IANS) A Pakistan court has rejected bail for a blind Christian man charged with blasphemy, despite apparent discrepancies in the police report and prosecution testimonies, local media reported, quoting his lawyer. The case adds to ongoing concerns over the misuse of blasphemy laws against religious minorities in the country.Muhammad Jawad Zafar of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on February 4 dismissed the bail petition of 49-year-old Nadeem Masih, who has been in custody since Au…
Islamabad, Feb 14 (IANS) Raising serious doubts over the freedom of press in Pakistan, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate, the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), has condemned the use of legal harassment to prolong detention of digital journalist and YouTube host Sohrab Barkat and called for his immediate release. 31-year-old Barkat, an Islamabad-based correspondent for Pakistani news outlet Siasat, was detained at Islamabad International Airport while…
Islamabad, Feb 12 (IANS) An elderly woman, who was allegedly born in Bangladesh and was trafficked and sold in Pakistan some 35 years back, has filed a petition in Lahore High Court against the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) for offloading her from a Dhaka-bound flight, local media reported. Razia Bibi (58) filed the plea through her lawyer Ali Changezi Sandhu and requested the court to impose a fine on the FIA for offloading her, allegedly without any reason, Pakistan’s leading daily Dawn r…
Islamabad, Feb 3 (IANS) Persistent police encounter killings and the lack of transparency, probe or accountability around them in Pakistan’s Punjab province indicates criminality on part of the State, a report has stated. As of early 2025, the Crime Control Department (CCD) of Punjab Police and its political patrons have been following a tried and tested script. Formed through an executive order after Punjab cabinet’s approval last year, the department’s powers and mandate have been made a law t…
Islamabad, Jan 28 (IANS) A rising number of people are being accused of blasphemy for digital crimes in Pakistan with the rights groups terming it as a type of “blasphemy business”, in which fabricated evidence, digitally doctored screenshots, or false witness statements are used to initiate police complaints, a report has detailed. In December, the Lahore High Court’s Rawalpindi Bench acquitted six people who had been sentenced to either life imprisonment or death in a digital blasphemy case. T…
Islamabad, Jan 3 (IANS) Pakistan religious scholar Muhammad Ali Mirza, who was recently imprisoned in Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi before being granted bail in a high-profile blasphemy case, stated that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder and former Prime Minister Imran Khan remains “very frustrated” in jail, local media reported.Speaking to a private television channel, Mirza shared details about the conduct and daily routine of Imran, who has been imprisoned in Adiala since September 2023.The …