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Thousands of young Pakistani girls fall victim to landlords, criminals, ze
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
According to the IFFRAS report, Pakistan's media, civil society and political leaders have been silent about the issue. Religious leaders and generals have never paid any attention to the same. Only, occasionally, international organisations express their distress at the plight of Pakistan's
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Alarm raised over religious conversions of underage girls in Pakistan
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Noting Pakistan's previous attempts to pass legislation prohibiting forced conversions and protecting religious minorities, the UN experts deplored the lack of access to justice for victims and their families.
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Pakistani Minorities continue to live under clouds of fear, persecution: R
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Several members of minorities including a Sri Lankan national have been killed and attacked in various cities and towns of Punjab, Sindh, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, for allegedly committing blasphemy, which in this country is commonly used to settle personal scores relating to business, financi
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Pakistan: TLP cleric calls for attack on Ahmadi pregnant women
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], October 9 (ANI): A cleric of the proscribed Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) has asked his followers to attack Ahmadi pregnant women to "make sure that no new Ahmadis are born".
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Pakistan's legal system needs 'urgent reform' to protect safety, dignity o
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 1 (ANI): Amid the persecution of minorities in Pakistan, the legal system of the country is in need of urgent reform to protect the safety and dignity of the minorities including the Ahmadi community, according to a media report.
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Atrocities against women continues in Pakistan
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], August 31 (ANI): The targeting of religious minorities, especially women, has been continuing in Pakistan recently a Hindu girl returned to her family after enduring two years of gang rape by her abductors, local media reported.
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Pak Hindu families forced to relocate amid blasphemy furore
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Hyderabad [Pakistan], August 23 (ANI): All Hindu families living in a six-storey building were forced to leave their apartments after an enraged mob attacked the building while trying to get hold of a man belonging to the Hindu minority community who was booked in an alleged case of blasp
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Pakistan: Hindu family attacked by politician's relative for trying to ove
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Sindh [Pakistan], August 9 (ANI): A Hindu family was attacked on Sunday evening by the relative of a Politician and his associates after the family tried to overtake his car, local media reported on Monday citing local police.
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Persecution of minorities under blasphemy continues in Pakistan
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], July 27 (ANI): The targeting of religious minorities has been continuing in Pakistan under blasphemy as a large number of innocent persons who have lost their lives, homes and their terrorized families dispersed, according to media reports.
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Hindu community holds protest against girl's abduction in Pakistan
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 15 (ANI): The Pakistani Hindu community on Wednesday held a protest in front of former President Asif Ali Zardari's residence in Nawabshah, Sindh province against the alleged kidnapping, forced conversion, and marriage of a 16-year-old Hindu girl named Kareena, loc
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Acutely aware of challenges faced by minorities in Pakistan: UK Minister
Updated : 4 years ago IST
London [UK], May 18 (ANI): UK's Minister of State for Foreign Commonwealth and Development Affairs Tariq Mahmood Ahmad on Tuesday said that he is "acutely aware of the challenges faced by minority communities in Pakistan" and noted that these issues are raised in a "constructive way" with Is
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Pakistan: Police registers FIR in Sikh traders' killing in Peshawar
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 17 (ANI): Amid severe backlash over the persecution of the minority community in the country, Pakistan's counter-terror department has registered an FIR into the targeted killing of two Sikh traders in Peshawar.
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