Freedom of religion in Pakistan Court. Later, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's government tried to enforce a Shariat Bill, passed in May 1991. After the incident of 9/11, Pervez Musharraf government took steps to curtail the religious intolerance of non-Muslims. The Pakistani government does not restrict religious publishing. However, it restricts the right to freedom of speech with regard to religion. Speaking in opposition to Islam and publishing an attack on Islam or its prophets are prohibited. Pakistan's penal code mandates the death penalty or life in prison for anyone defiling the name of Muhammad. This penal code mandates life imprisonment for desecrating the Quran, and
Prophets and messengers in Islam in the Qur'an discuss this: Numerous other people have been mentioned by scholars in the Hadith, exegesis, commentary. These people include: Prophets and messengers in Islam Prophets in Islam () include "messengers" ("rasul", "rusul"), bringers of a divine revelation via an angel (Arabic: , malāʾikah); and "prophets" ("nabī", pl. "anbiyāʼ"), lawbringers that Muslims believe were sent by God to every person, bringing God's message in a language they can understand. Knowledge of the Islamic prophets is one of the six articles of the Islamic faith, and specifically mentioned in the Quran. Muslims believe that the first prophet was also the