AVIGNON: A Moroccan Muslim was stabbed to death in his own home in southern France in what a Muslim group called a "horrible Islamophobic" attack the week after France was rocked by the Charlie Hebdo killings.
KARACHI: Two religious organizations clashed outside Karachi Press during a protest against blasphemous caricatures in the French magazine, ARY News reported.
KARACHI: Scores of religious political parties and groups are observing black day on Friday (today) against the French magazine over publication of blasphemous sketches of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), ARY News reported.
NIAMEY: Niger Thursday banned distribution of Charlie Hebdo in the mainly Muslim country, with the government "vehemently" condemning the blasphemous cartoon in the latest issue of the French satirical weekly.
BEIRUT: The militant Islamic State group beheaded a man in northern Syria after accusing him of blasphemy, a militant website and a rights group said on Tuesday.
MULTAN: Unidentified gunmen opened fire at the residence of a lawyer defending a university lecturer accused of blasphemy and dropped a letter warning him to withdraw from the case, police said Thursday.
STRASBOURG: The European parliament called Thursday on Pakistan to overhaul its blasphemy laws with a view to repealing them, saying they were "increasingly used to target" Christians and other minorities.
LAHORE: The husband of a Christian woman, Asiya Bibi sentenced to death for blasphemy four years ago has written to the president to ask for her to be pardoned and allowed to move to France.
LAHORE: A Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Monday remanded in custody four people accused of killing a Christian couple for alleged blasphemy, officials said.
MITTHI: A local court of Mitthi on Thursday issued notice to confiscate the property of Geo/Jang group owner Mir Shakil, over his continuous absence at the hearings of a case against him, ARY News reported.
LAHORE: The case of the Christian couple that was killed over allegedly committing blasphemy has been filed in Kot Radha Kishan police station in Lahore, ARY News reports.
LAHORE: An enraged Muslim mob beat a Christian couple to death in Pakistan and burnt their bodies in the brick kiln where they worked on Tuesday for allegedly desecrating a Quran, police said.
RAWALPINDI: The policeman policeman jailed for murdering PPP Leader and then Governor Punjab Salman Taseer in a religiously-motivated attack incited a prison guard to shoot an elderly British man convicted of blasphemy, according to an internal inquiry.
KARACHI: A sessions’ court in Karachi served notice on Opposition Leader in the National Assembly Khursheed Shah and two others in a blasphemy case, ARY News reported Thursday.
GUJRANWALA: The angry mob on late Sunday set on fire a house of a boy, whom they charged with posting blasphemous pictures on a social media website. Three people including two children were killed in its wake, ARY News reported.