Punjab Province is the 'Extreme Center' of Blasphemy Cases in Pakistan

by Rodrick Samson
Good News Daily
January 26, 2011

https://www.legal-project.org/1100/punjab-province-is-the-extreme-center

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PUNJAB, PAKISTAN (ANS) – An analysis of the reported blasphemy cases in Pakistan since 1986 (the year when this controversial law (295-C) was made part of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) by General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, who was the sixth President of Pakistan from July 1977 to his death in August 1988), reveals that the majority of these cases occurred in a few districts in central Punjab.

The data collected by Life for All (LFA), an NGO working for the repeal of the Pakistan blasphemy laws, has revealed that since 1986, 1058 people (456 Ahmadis*, 449 Muslims, 132 Christians and 21 Hindus) have been charged under the blasphemy laws.

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