Punjab Province is the ‘Extreme Center’ of Blasphemy Cases in Pakistan
PUNJAB, PAKISTAN (ANS) -- An analysis of the reported blasphemy cases in Pakistan since 1986 (the year when this controversial law (295-C) was made part of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) by General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, who was the sixth President of Pakistan from July 1977 to his death in August 1988), reveals that the majority of these cases occurred in a few districts in central Punjab.
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According to Rizwan Paul, Executive Director of LFA, “Around 80 per cent of all these cases have been registered in only eight districts of central Punjab -- Lahore, Faisalabad, Toba Tek Singh, Gujranwala, Sheikhupura, Sialkot, Gujrat and Kasur”.
Punjab Province is the ‘Extreme Center’ of Blasphemy Cases in Pakistan