Some of the few remains of the unfortunate martyrs Shahzad and Shama (RIP). Evangelical Christians call on Westminster to take action against Pakistan for summary execution of Pakistani Christians Describing the burning to death of a young Christian man and his pregnant wife in a brick kiln in Pakistan as “barbaric”, the Evangelical Alliance wants all Christians to sign a petition and come out and support a rally outside 10 Downing Street. On 4th November 2014, 26-year-old Shahzad Masih and his 24-year-old wife Shama Bibi who, was four months pregnant, were beaten, tortured and burned alive in the fiery furnace of a…
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Police stood back and watched while Shahzad and Shama were killed. A failed Government cover up dispels the myth that they desire reform. Image of the brick kiln where Shahzad and Shama were roasted alive. More details are emerging about the beating and incineration of a young Christian couple in eastern Punjab last week (4th November 2014), including information from their distraught 6 year old son. The information from relatives of the victims may also explain some of the contradictory accounts. The victims, Shahzad and Shama, were a young couple in their mid -twenties, originally from a Christian village, Clarkabad where,…
LAHORE: Hear Wilson Chowdhry’s Premier Christian news interview (click here) Protest outside 10 Downing Street next Saturday 22nd November 2014 from 11:00 – 13:00. (click here) Sign our petition (click here) Today (4th November) at 7:00am, a Christian couple Shahzad Masih and Shama Bibi who was 4 months pregnant, were burned alive in an extra-judicial killing for an blasphemy. The incident occurred at the brick Kiln of Yousaf Gujjar a Muslim landowner in Kasur (near Lahore). 44 culprits including Mr Gujjar have been arrested on charges of murder. We set the facts out for you below as reported by Muhammad Rafique. The couple worked at the brick…
Image taken from protest outside 10 Downing Street Saturday 18th October 2014. [Images lost during website transfer in 2020] A re-enactment of the savage attack on Asia Bibi a Christian mother of five children, who was later arrested and accused of blasphemy, after simply drinking water from a well and offering water to Muslim co-workers, is to be staged outside the Pakistan High Commission, Lowndes Square, London, on Saturday 25th October 2014. Actors will attempt to illustrate the generosity of a caring woman who thought to share water with other thirsty labourers, whilst picking berries in a field. The scene…
Image containing Kheirat and Akram Masih -both arrested under the blasphemy laws of Pakistan. [Images lost during transfer of website in 2020]. By Mushtaq Gill A Christian boy Akram Masih and his family, including several females, were severely beaten and tortured by Policemen and other extremists in Multan, on 16th October 2014. The policemen entered his home by climbing over the perimeter walls in order to arrest Akram, because he was in marriage with a Muslim girl, Maria Bibi (originally from District Shiekhupura). Advocate Sardar Mushtaq Gill, Human Rights Defender and Chief of LEAD was informed by Moderator Bishop Asher…
Calls for the death of Ahmadi students and their parents, in the wake of false blasphemy charges, arecommon and the case of Rana Sajeel Ahmad highlights the desperate situation faced by so many Ahmadis in Pakistan: Rana Sajeel Ahmad, a 16-year old Ahmadi student of Pubic High School, Khushab, was beaten up severely by a gang of students on November 23rd 2011. He now faces the dreaded accusation of blasphemy. Subsequent to the beating, the attackers accused Ahmad of preaching his creed and defiling the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be on him). The school administration found it convenient to accept…
L-R Shamim Masih and Ashiq Masih By Shamim Masih A farm worker also a mother of 5, Asia Bibi has been kept away from her children for five years and four months. Her crime? Although an untouchable Christian, she dared to drink water from the same well as her colleagues. Later she was accused of committing blasphemy. Asia Bibi has been in jail since June 19th, 2009 – she was sentenced to death by the additional District and Sessions Judge Justice Muhammad Naveed Iqbal, despite a huge lack of evidence, in November, 2010. On 16th October, 2014, a special division…
NDEMNED TO EXECUTION… DISGUSTED LONDON BAND SCREAM OUT FOR JUSTICE Yesterday, 16th October 2014, death row mother of 5 Asia Bibi heard her appeal for mercy rejected by Lahore High Court. Sentenced to death by hanging under Pakistan’s notorious Blasphemy laws, Asia returned to her squalid prison cell to await her fate. In disgust, London band ooberfuse today release FREE, a music video crying out for an end to the persecution of non-Muslim religious minorities in Pakistan and around the world. They join a British Pakistani Christian Association protest this Saturday from 11:00 – 13:00 at 10 Downing Street. You can hear the…
Article written by Shamim Masih and Wilson Chowdhry Pakistani Christians across the globe shed tears of disgust and horror as innocent Christian mother of five Asia Bibi, has had her blasphemy law appeal hearing rejected. Literally minutes ago a two member bench of Lahore High Court, led by Justice Anwar-ul-Haque decided to uphold her existing blasphemy sentence, meaning Asia will remain on a death/life sentence and will now have to appeal through the Supreme Court of Pakistan – which will be the last chance of justice through Pakistan’s flawed legal system. Asia Bibi has been in jail since 2009 in…
Wilson Chowdhry the Chairman of BPCA has an interview with United Christian Broadcasters (UCB) and discusses the case of Asia Bibi and the level of persecution faced by Christians and minorities in Pakistan. Please click on the link below to listen to this interview. Wilson Chowhdry interview with UCB