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Twelve Pakistani Taliban gunmen and four soldiers are killed in a shootout at a security outpost in the Kalasha Valleys in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
2023-09-6

The suspect in the stabbing attack yesterday outside the former headquarters of the satirical magazine "Charlie Hebdo" in Paris is identified as Ali H., an 18-year-old Pakistan-born man. He confessed to his actions and said he acted in vengeance for the magazine's Muhammad caricature republications earlier this year.
2020-09-26

A Pakistani court overturns the death sentence of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman convicted of blasphemy.
2018-10-31

The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Yousuf Raza Gilani, appears before Pakistan's Supreme Court, facing contempt proceedings that could see him barred from holding public office if found guilty.
2012-01-18

Tens of thousands of people rally in Karachi, Pakistan to demand the release of Mumtaz Qadri, charged with killing Salman Taseer, the provincial governor of Punjab who had campaigned to amend the country's blasphemy laws.
2011-01-10

Sunni Muslim clerics organize strikes across Pakistan to protest against possible changes to the country’s blasphemy laws.
2010-12-31

Pope Benedict XVI urges Pakistani authorities to release Aasia Bibi, a Christian woman facing a death sentence on a charge of blasphemy against Islam.
2010-11-20

Former Indian junior diplomat Madhuri Gupta is charged under the Official Secrets Act with spying for Pakistan.
2010-07-20

Pope Benedict XVI's former archdiocese of Munich-Freising (1977–1982) reveals he transferred a suspected paedophile priest to a job that allowed him to continue abusing children.
2010-03-13

Atheist Ireland purposefully publishes the words of Jesus Christ, Muhammad, Salman Rushdie, Mark Twain and Pope Benedict XVI on its website despite a new law banning them on grounds of blasphemy.
2010-01-2