Grieving wife of Sri Lankan engineer Priyantha Kumara, lynched and burnt in Sialkot over alleged blasphemy, pleads for justice: I found out about the brutal murder of my husband from the news, later I saw it on the internet as well. He was an innocent man. The killing of Priyantha Kumara for blasphemy allegations is now the second such incident involving a foreign national in Pakistan. Last year an American citizen Tahir Naseem was gunned down in a Peshawar courtroom. vice.com/en/article/wx8…

Teenage Hindu sisters Raveena and Reena Menghwar abducted from Ghotki, Sindh. On Holi, Hindu community stages sit-in on national highway against the refusal of police to register a case. Another case of forced conversion and as always the family is helpless. Girls' brother Chaman Lal tells both sisters, age 15 and 16, were picked up as the family was playing Holi last night. bbc.com/urdu/pakistan-…

In Lahore, 17-year-old Christian boy #PatrasMasih is accused of #blasphemy on social media by a local cleric. An angry mob led by Tehreek-e-Labaiak gathered outside Masih's house in Shahdara. Police lodged FIR under 295-C and the boy's father Indreas was arrested yesterday. Later, teenager accused of blasphemy #PatrasMasih handed himself to the police. Situation in Shahdara remains tense as several Christian families have fled the area fearing for life. However, Pakistani media's silence in such cases of #blasphemy has become a new normal. #Pakistan