{"id":7112,"date":"2026-01-16T22:48:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T22:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/ground_post\/assessing-blasphemy-in-pakistan\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T22:48:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T22:48:03","slug":"assessing-blasphemy-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"ground_post","link":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/ground_post\/assessing-blasphemy-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Assessing Blasphemy in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"main-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"hero\">\n<div class=\"block-layout-region\">\n<div id=\"block-herointernalpageblock\" class=\"block block-custom-blocks block-hero-internal-block\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"internal_hero_wrapper custom-hero  internal-hero-js-adjust\">\n<div class=\"internal_hero\" style=\"background-image: linear-gradient(to right, rgba(0, 0, 0, 1) 3%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0), rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)), url(\" https: www.uscirf.gov themes custom uscirf2020 assets images defaulthero.png\"); background-position-x: center; background-position-y: center\">\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h1 class=\"internal-hero-title\">Assessing Blasphemy in Pakistan <\/h1>\n<div class=\"custom-breadcrumb hidden\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div id=\"insertNavHere\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div id=\"main\" class=\"container\">\n              <a target=\"_blank\" id=\"main-content\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div data-drupal-messages-fallback class=\"hidden\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"block-uscirf2020-content\" class=\"block block-system block-system-main-block\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"basic-page\">\n<div class=\"paragraph-section paragraph-unique-18149\" style=\"\" data-animation=\"fadeIn\" data-animation-delay=\"0.3\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"single-container row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<div class=\"full-content\">\n<p>This report describes the increasing use of Pakistan\u2019s blasphemy law in 2023 to target individuals on the basis of religion or belief, including its disproportionate use against the country\u2019s religious minority populations. It highlights select examples of recent blasphemy cases, including against Pakistan\u2019s Ahmadiyya Muslim community, and provides an overview of Pakistani officials\u2019 efforts to strengthen and justify the legislation both domestically and on the international stage.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"btn-primary single-cta-btn\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uscirf.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2023-12\/2023%20Pakistan%20Blasphemy%20Issue%20Update.pdf\">View PDF<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div id=\"block-taxonomytermview\" class=\"block block-custom-blocks block-taxonomy-term-view\">\n<div class=\"content\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscirf.gov\/publications\/assessing-blasphemy-pakistan?rand=6542\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assessing Blasphemy in Pakistan This report describes the increasing use of Pakistan\u2019s blasphemy law in 2023 to target individuals on the basis of religion or belief, including its disproportionate use against the country\u2019s religious minority populations. It highlights select examples of recent blasphemy cases, including against Pakistan\u2019s Ahmadiyya Muslim community, and provides an overview of Pakistani officials\u2019 efforts to strengthen&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":99044,"featured_media":7113,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[908,959,856],"ground_category":[315,320],"class_list":["post-7112","ground_post","type-ground_post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-assessing","tag-blasphemy","tag-pakistan","ground_category-2-grounds-tribulation","ground_category-2-5-time-martyrdom"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.uscirf.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2023-12\/Pakistan.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_post\/7112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ground_post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99044"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_post\/7112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7112"},{"taxonomy":"ground_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_category?post=7112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}