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LAHORE, Pakistan — A human rights advocate is calling on Pakistan's Parliament to address the alarming increase in false blasphemy allegations against Christians and other religious minorities.

While most rallies and seminars for the annual National Minorities Day took place on Sunday to ensure greater participation, Samson Salamat, chairman of the rights group Rwadari Tehreek (Movement for Equality), told a forum at the Lahore Press Club that the parliament should hold a “Grand Dialogue” to discuss the spike in false allegations of blasphemy leading to mob violence.

“We demand the government [convene] a judicial inquiry commission to investigate the ‘blasphemy business group’ and similar gangs entrapping innocent people in blasphemy cases,” Salamat said, “and to reveal the t

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