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"At the police station, officers abused, slapped and tortured us with batons, charging us with burning Muslims. They snatched rosaries from three of us and ...

“They threatened to murder my whole family. My life was at stake in the hands of the accused and Nakash repeatedly raped me forcefully.”

“With this ruling, no Christian girl in Pakistan is safe. It is unbelievable. What we have seen yesterday is an Islamic judgment. The arguments we ...

“What kind of mentality is this? I really have no answer for it. I don’t know if people in the West can understand what a ...

“If the police and the courts know that people in the West are paying attention, they will be under more pressure to follow the law ...

“This aid that you at ACN has given has helped save the people from starvation. Many of them had nothing to put on the table ...

"The court has delayed and continues to delay justice on behalf of Huma, solely because she is an underage Christian girl."

“In terms of how the marriage is viewed within the Muslim community, the Grand Mufti’s intervention is significant.”

"In our country, what so often happens is that they first arrest the accused and only later do they check the evidence.”

Nakash, the kidnapper, argues that, contrary to Pakistani law, which forbids marriage to minors, marrying Maira is sanctioned by Islamic custom which, he claims, says ...