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DAWN
| 9 months ago
His brother and predecessor Shahbaz Bhatti was gunned down last year for speaking out against the blasphemy law. The arrest of a Muslim cleric for tampering with evidence against a Christian girl accused of blasphemy will help stop the abuse of...
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Kuwait Times
| 9 months ago
Afghan women ride on the back of a cart in the city of Herat yesterday. A young Pakistani Christian girl accused of blasphemy in a case that has sparked international criticism must spend at least four more days in jail after a court adjourned a bail...
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Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
| 9 months ago
It is imperative that men like Malik Ishaq, who spread their poison among the already susceptible male youth population of Pakistan, are stopped in their tracks. There was another good piece of news this week as well, after a frightening development.
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The Guardian
| 9 months ago
Allama Tahir Ashrafi said he had been moved to speak out after reading reports that Rimsha had Down's syndrome. Photograph: W Khan/EPA The Christian girl who was allegedly framed for blasphemy by her local mullah has been hailed as a "daughter of the...
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India Abroad
| 9 months ago
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. Judge Muhammad Azam Khan adjourned the case...
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DAWN
| 9 months ago
The bail hearing for a young Pakistani Christian girl accused of blasphemy was adjourned until Tuesday, DawnNews reported. The girl has been in custody since she was arrested in a poor Islamabad suburb more than two weeks ago accused of burning...
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International Herald Tribune
| 9 months ago
European Pressphoto Agency The police escorted Mr. Chisti in a blindfold from a hearing in Islamabad on Saturday. The surprise arrest might change the direction of a case that has brought the world's attention to Pakistan's controversial blasphemy...
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Kuwait Times
| 9 months ago
Pakistani policemen escort Islamic cleric Hafiz Mohammed Khalid Chishti upon his arrival at a court yesterday. A Pakistani cleric who accused a young Christian girl of blasphemy in a case that sparked international concern was remanded in custody...
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Salem News
| 9 months ago
He said that the ongoing situation with religious minorities is very disappointing. Albert appealed to the government to release 14-year old Rimsha immediately. As the real culprit is being arrested, the girl is still in jail. Failure to do so, he...
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NY Daily News
| 9 months ago
Imam arrested for planting evidence on Christian girl jailed for blasphemy Muslim cleric allegedly set victim up to appear she burned pages from the Koran. Sunday, September 2, 2012, 3:07 PM STR/EPA Pakistani police escort Imam Khalid Chishti (C,...
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The Hindu
| 9 months ago
September 2, 2012 The blasphemy case involving an 11-year-old girl with Down Syndrome took a curious turn that could end her ordeal when the police on Saturday evening arrested a cleric for allegedly planting pages of the Koran among burnt papers...
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Arizona Republic
| 9 months ago
A Muslim cleric is accused of stashing pages of a Quran in a Christian girl's bag to make it seem like she burned the Islamic holy book, a surprising twist in a case that caused an international outcry over the country's strict blasphemy laws.
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The Guardian
| 9 months ago
Pakistani mullah arrested for 'framing' Christian girl accused of blasphemy. Link to this video The case against a Pakistani Christian girl potentially facing a death sentence for allegedly burning sacred Islamic texts has been thrown into doubt...
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Towleroad
| 9 months ago
Imam [Khalid] Chishti appeared in the Islamabad court with a white blindfold and shackled hands. There was a large police presence as he was ushered into the building. "The imam was arrested after his deputy Maulvi Zubair and two others told a...
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The Globe & Mail
| 9 months ago
Story A Pakistani police officer stands guard at the site of a bombing near a rally by the Awami National Party that killed at least five people, in Quetta, Pakistan, Friday, July 13, 2012 The Associated Press video Some Muslim neighbours insist she...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 9 months ago
Breaking News A Christian girl who was arrested under Pakistan's controversial anti-blasphemy law may have moved a step closer to freedom on Sunday after police detained a Muslim cleric on suspicion of planting evidence to frame her. Still, Rimsha...
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United Press International
| 9 months ago
Pakistani police arrested a Muslim cleric for allegedly fabricating the case against a young Christian girl who has been accused of blasphemy, officials said. Khalid Chisti was arrested late Saturday for allegedly planting pages of the Koran into a...
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Russia Today
| 9 months ago
Five years after a Danish paper was fiercely criticized by Muslims for depicting the Prophet Mohammed in derogatory cartoons, Facebook and YouTube are under fire from Pakistan...Imam arrested for falsifying evidence Published: 02 September, 2012, 14:...
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Guardian Unlimited
| 9 months ago
Farooq Naeem/AFP/Getty Images The mullah at the centre of the furore surrounding a young Pakistani Christian girl facing a death sentence for blasphemy has been accused of deliberately framing her by planting burned Islamic texts. In an extraordinary...
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Sky News
| 9 months ago
Pakistani police have arrested a Muslim cleric who accused a 14-year-old Christian girl of blasphemy for allegedly burning pages of the Koran. Officers said Khalid Chishti was held on suspicion of planting pages of the book in a shopping bag...
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Indian Express
| 9 months ago
Imam Khalid Chishti of the Jamia Aminia mosque in the low-income Mehria Jaffar neighbourhood of Islamabad was arrested last night after a man testified that he had seen the cleric stuffing pages of the Quran in the bag of the Christian girl named...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 9 months ago
Pakistani police have arrested a Muslim cleric on suspicion of planting evidence against a Christian girl accused of blasphemy, officers said Sunday. Rimsha has been in custody since she was arrested in a poor Islamabad suburb more than two weeks ago...
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International Business Times
| 9 months ago
Pakistan police have arrested Khalid Chishti, an imam who allegedly planted burnt pages of Koran in a shopping bag that had been carried by a Christian girl. The girl, 14-year-old Rimsha, was accused of blasphemy , a serious offence in Pakistan which...
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Taiwan News
| 9 months ago
Pakistan i police have arrested a Muslim cleric who accused a Christian girl of blasphemy on suspicion that he planted evidence, a police officer said Sunday, the latest twist in a religiously charged case that has focused attention on Pakistan 's...
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BBC
| 9 months ago
Imam held in Pakistan blasphemy case Police in Pakistan have arrested an imam accused of planting burnt pages of the Koran on a Christian girl accused of blasphemy, officials say. The girl was detained two weeks ago after a mob accused her of...
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Ledger-Enquirer
| 9 months ago
Pakistani police say authorities have arrested an imam who had accused a Christian girl of blasphemy. Munir Jaffery, an investigating officer in the case, said Sunday that Khalid Chishti was arrested late Saturday for allegedly planting pages of a...
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The Herald
| 9 months ago
A young Pakistani Christian girl accused of blasphemy must wait until at least Monday to learn if she will be given bail, after a judge adjourned her case on Saturday amid doubts over legal paperwork. Rimsha has been in custody since she was arrested...
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DAWN
| 9 months ago
A blasphemy case took a bizarre turn here on Saturday when police arrested Khalid Jadoon, a prayer leader who had allegedly put some pages of the holy Quran among the burnt papers to strengthen the case against a Christian girl. The arrest was made...
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The Guardian
| 9 months ago
Anjum Naveed/AP Hopes that a Christian girl in Pakistan accused of blasphemy would be released on bail have been dashed, as the case, which has attracted worldwide condemnation, became bogged down in legal wrangling. A judge at an Islamabad court...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 9 months ago
The bail hearing of a minor Christian girl charged with blasphemy in Pakistan was today put off till Monday after her accuser's counsel raised questions about the lawyer representing her and legal paperwork in the case. Judge Azam Khan adjourned...
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India Abroad
| 9 months ago
A bipartisan group of six American Senators has written a letter to Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari [ Images ], asking him to address the growing religious intolerance in his country and release the minor Christian girl arrested on a blasphemy...
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Al Jazeera
| 9 months ago
44 Members of the International Christian Alliance in Karachi chant slogans in support of the accused girl [Reuters] An Islamabad court on Saturday adjourned until September 3 the bail hearing in the case of the underage Christian girl accused of...
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DAWN
| 9 months ago
For Rafia Margaret, the case of a young Pakistani Christian girl accused of blasphemy rekindled horrifying memories of the day a furious mob smashed through her front door and torched her house. On August 1, 2009 Margaret, then aged 28, had just...
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DAWN
| 9 months ago
A local court in Islamabad on Saturday adjourned the case pertaining to the bail application of a girl who had been accused of blasphemy to Sept 3, DawnNews reported. The case was heard in the court of additional and sessions judge Islamabad Justice...
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International Herald Tribune
| 9 months ago
I can be chopped into pieces, but I will not bow, Mr. Chisti said in a strong, emotional voice to a gathering of like-minded local residents...Here in Mehr Jaffer, a slum also known as Mehr Abadi, on the outskirts of this city, the Muslim majority...
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DAWN
| 9 months ago
The Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) on Friday deplored keeping minor Rimsha in jail and expressed displeasure over the extension of remand for another14 days. In a statement issued by the party's central media cell, the PTI central spokesman said it is...
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China Post
| 9 months ago
Pakistani police Friday won permission to hold a young Christian girl accused of blasphemy in custody for a further 14 days while her case is investigated, officials said. Rimsha was arrested in a poor suburb of Islamabad on Aug. 16 after a neighbor...
