An 18-year-old woman held captive for five months and forced to convert to Islam and marry has been recovered through the aid of a schoolteacher in a different province.
During the first seven months of 2024, blasphemy cases in Pakistan spiked, more than tripling the full-year total for 2023, according to a human rights group.
Suspects in the 10-day gang rape of a 17-year-old girl have issued threats against her family to try to get charges dropped, according to the girl’s father.