Nasir Saeed (CLAAS-UK)
Nasir Saeed is the director of CLAAS-UK, a non-denominational Christian organisation based in the UK and Pakistan. CLAAS-UK is committed to raising awareness about the suffering and experience of Christians in Pakistan through campaigning and offering financial, legal and practical support.
Why it’s time to speak up against Pakistan’s blasphemy law
31 May 202295 per cent of the country’s population is Muslim, and these laws were hardly ever used until 1986. But when General Zia ul Haq started the process of Islamising the country’s laws, he also added the sentence of life imprisonment for people found guilty of defiling or desecrating the Qur’an and later, the death penalty was declared mandatory for anyone blaspheming against Muhammad. Blasphemy cases continue to grow every year in Pakistan. Churches are attacked, Christian towns are set on fire…
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