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Pakistan: Human Rights Observer report highlights increase in content agai
Updated : 2 years, 12 months ago IST
The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) on Thursday issued the "Human Rights Observer 2023", an annual fact sheet. The report covers five key issues impacting religious minorities including discrimination in the education system, the prevalence of forced faith conversions, abuse of blasphemy law
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Pakistan: Kidnappings, forced conversions of Christian, Hindu girls increa
Updated : 2 years, 12 months ago IST
In the eyes of the civilized world, the crime has the sanction of the Mullahs and their followers and that is why there are no protests of civil society or reports of human rights organizations.
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SC protects members of UP's Christian community in forced conversion case
Updated : 3 years ago IST
The Supreme Court on Friday granted interim protection from coercive action against the Chairman of Broadwell Christian Hospital Society and other members of the Christian community by Uttar Pradesh police in a case of alleged forceful religious conversion.
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UN: Pakistan Mission flooded with calls for protection of Christians
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Letters of protest by the organizations point to the systematic persecution of Christians, resulting in unjust punishments citing blasphemy, forced marriages of young Christian girls to older Muslim men, forced conversions in various parts of Pakistan and usurping of land and belongings of C
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Minorities live in fear as incidents of forced conversion rise in Pakistan
Updated : 3 years ago IST
In December 2022, a Hindu man named Laloo Kachhi in Sindh was beaten up by a Muslim mob as he tried to resist the abductors of his sister, Laali.
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Abduction, forced conversion of Hindu girls continues in Pakistan
Updated : 3 years ago IST
A resident of Malhi village of Sindh's Tharparkar district, Ishwar Bheel, said that his 20-year-old daughter Guddi Bheel was kidnapped by Sikhander Bajeer of Tando Adam Naukot of Mirpur-Khason on March 8 while returning from the hospital where she had gone to collect fever medicines for her
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Pakistan: Activists protest against kidnapping, forced conversions of mino
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Several activists during the event talked about atrocities on females and the apathy shown by the government authorities towards such incidents.
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Civil societies in Pakistan invite "Conversion Factory" at anti-conversion
Updated : 3 years ago IST
A seminar titled "Forced Conversion of the Religion and its Reality" was organised by the Islamabad Bar Association under the leadership of Mian Abdul Haq Mithu, a notorious cleric involved in promoting the heinous crime, deep-rooted hatred and indifference against minorities, especially Hin
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"No religious minority can freely live or practice its religion in Pakista
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Using its right to reply, India's representative Seema Pujani slammed her Pakistani counterpart Hina Rabbani Khar and said, "No religious minority can freely live or practice its religion in Pakistan today. The Ahmadiya community continues to be persecuted by the state for simply practisi
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Pakistan: 15-year-old Christian girl forcibly married to 60-year-old Musli
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Notably, stories of girls from religious minorities forcibly converted to Islam and married to Muslim men are continuously reported by Pakistani and international media.
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Pakistan giving blind eye toward atrocities on minorities: Report
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
A month back, Pakistan raised objections against the Bill that was meant to protect the rights of minorities in Pakistan. Pakistan's Ministry of Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony raised several objections to the Bill that was drafted by the Federal Ministry of Human Rights.
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Pak human rights group raises concern over continued marginalization of re
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
In its report titled A Breach of Faith: Freedom of Religion or Belief in 2021-22, HRCP has observed with considerable alarm developments during 2021/22 that belie the state's commitment to freedom of religion or belief.
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