LAHORE, Pakistan — A justice alleged to be part of an effort to entrap Christians in false blasphemy charges has resigned his judgeship.
Media outlets Christian Daily International-Morning Star News report that Chaudhry Abdul Aziz, justice of the Lahore High Court, resigned for “personal reasons” — effective immediately — on March 6.
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Fact Focus, a website banned in Pakistan, revealed Aziz’s possible link to a “blasphemy business gang.”
In a February article, the media outlets said an Islamabad High Court justice mandated that a commission be formed to investigate a “blasphemy business group.”
“The Islamabad High Court issued the order in response to petitions filed by families of more than 100 people booked by the [Federal Investigation Agency] for allegedly sharing blasphemous content online,” the news services state.
‘Tortured to death’
Another of the media outlets’ articles quotes human rights lawyers as saying five of the falsely accused individuals “were tortured to death in custody.”
The “blasphemy business group’s” actions are “said to have ensnared more than 400 innocent people, including Christians, in a surge of false blasphemy cases in the last two years,” the media sources reported.
World Watch
Pakistan is No. 8 on Open Doors’ 2025 World Watch List of places most difficult to be a Christian.
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