It was the year 2016. Nabeel Masih was just a 16-year-old cheerful, ordinary Christian boy living in a poor village in Kasur District, Pakistan. Like other boys his age, he used social media. But one day, his life suddenly took a horrifying turn. On September 18, 2016, Islamist Akhtar Ali accused Nabeel Masih, then just 16 years old, of allegedly committing blasphemy over a Facebook post that insulted the Kaaba in Mecca. According to Ali, he and some Muslim friends were browsing Facebook when they came across an image on Masih’s timeline that depicted the Kaaba with a pig placed on top of it. Ali filed a blasphemy complaint against Masih at the Phoolnagar Police Station. Police vans were immediately dispatched to Masih’s home in Dina Nath village, where he was arrested and charged under Sections 295 and 295-A of Pakistan’s Penal Code. Police claimed they removed the allegedly blasphemous image from Facebook to prevent further violence. However, the removal also made it impossible to verify whether Masih himself had uploaded the image or had simply been tagged in it. In 2018, Masih was convicted of blasphemy and sentenced to 10 years in prison. At just 18 years old, he became the youngest person in Pakistan’s history to be convicted under the blasphemy laws.
Four Years of Torment
Nabeel spent four precious years of his youth behind the bars of Lahore and Kot Lakhpat prisons in solitary confinement, under severe mental stress, and surrounded by a violent environment. These were the years when he should have been studying, playing, and laughing but instead, he lived each day in agony. His lawyer, Saad Jabar, a noted human rights advocate, fought for his case. Several local and international organizations particularly Christian Solidarity International (CSI) CSW (Christian Solidarity Worldwide), CLAAS, and ACN (Aid to the Church in Need) BACA (British asian christians Association) raised his plight, And Many More but in reality Nabeel was never given lasting protection or relief.
Bail, but the Scars of Prison Remained
In 2020, the Supreme Court granted Nabeel bail. Yet when he walked out of prison, he was neither physically healthy nor mentally at peace. The inhumane conditions of jail contaminated water, inadequate food, and constant psychological pressure had shattered his health. He had developed severe liver, kidney, and lung diseases. Doctors recommended treatment, with some even advising medical care abroad but no NGO or organization responded to his pleas.
Promises, Funding, and Silent Spectators
Countless organizations continued to raise funds in Nabeel’s name. Some showcased his case internationally and collected large donations. Yet Nabeel remained where he was abandoned, poor, sick, and hopeless in Lahore. These so-called organizations never helped evacuate innocent victims of false blasphemy accusations out of Pakistan after their release. Doing so would have cut off their own funding and donations. Instead, they deliberately kept victims inside Pakistan so they could tell donors: “We are hiding them in our safe houses.” Their livelihood thrived on exploiting the suffering of these helpless victims in the name of “protection.” Nabeel was never sent abroad for Asylum, medical care, never offered a rehabilitation program, and never provided with psychological support.
His Last Breath, July 31, 2025
Nabeel’s condition worsened with each passing day. He was admitted to hospitals several times, but it was already too late. On July 31, 2025, Nabeel Masih breathed his last. His eyes finally closed eyes that, until the very end, were still searching for justice. Nabeel Masih’s tragic death is not only an indictment of Pakistan’s cruel blasphemy laws, but also of the hypocrisy of NGOs that turned his suffering into fundraising campaigns while abandoning him to die without justice, dignity, or hope.
somehistory says
The poor boy. He will receive a reward for his faith and those who mistreated him, and *used* him, will pay a heavy price for their evil.
The actions of the groups using him, pretending to be Christian, remind me of an account in the Book of Acts of the Apostles.
Peter and some others were taking donations to help the poor and needy.
” Now a man named Ananias, together with his wife Sapphira, also sold a piece of property. 2 With his wife’s full knowledge he kept back part of the money for himself, but brought the rest and put it at the apostles’ feet.
3 Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has so filled your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit and have kept for yourself some of the money you received for the land? 4 Didn’t it belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, wasn’t the money at your disposal? What made you think of doing such a thing? You have not lied just to human beings but to God.”
When Ananias heard this, he fell down and died. And great fear seized all who heard what had happened. 6 Then some young men came forward, wrapped up his body, and carried him out and buried him.
7 About three hours later his wife came in, not knowing what had happened. 8 Peter asked her, “Tell me, is this the price you and Ananias got for the land?”
“Yes,” she said, “that is the price.”
9 Peter said to her, “How could you conspire to test the Spirit of the Lord? Listen! The feet of the men who buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out also.”
10 At that moment she fell down at his feet and died. Then the young men came in and, finding her dead, carried her out and buried her beside her husband. 11 Great fear seized the whole church and all who heard about these events.”
Just as no one made this couple sell their land, and no one made them donate any money, no one is making those pretending to help this young man, Nabeel Masih and others like him.
Just as the couple paid for their lies, so will those lying now.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
RIP, Mr Nabeel. Too bad that the international community couldn’t ostracize your country the way they did Afghanistan before 2002, or South Africa during the Apartheid regime
On the bright side, you are in a better place, wherever that is, since the place you were in was one of the spots of hell on earth
aum says
Tragic.
OLD GUY says
Tragic 100 times over.
Alkflaeda says
It would be helpful if the report named the NGOs that failed Nabeel, so that they can be held to account. I don’t know whether healthcare elsewhere would have lengthened his life, but at least he would not have been looking over his shoulder lest someone else accuse him of blasphemy.
joanofark06 says
How is Satan god of this world (2 Corinthians 4:4)? Answer here:
https://www.gotquestions.org/Satan-god-world.html
R G says
Pakistan is not Anerica’s friend. Sanction them again.