Pakistan News News Pakistan » Religion: US lawmakers told of Pakistan’s religious rights violations
Religious freedom advocates have urged U.S. lawmakers to push Pakistan to end the abduction, forced religious conversion and marriage of minority girls, warning that weak law enforcement and judicial ...
News Pakistan » Religion: Pakistan Refused To Accept Bodies Of Its Own Soldiers Killed In Kargil War, India Slams Pakistan At UN | Video
India criticised Pakistan at the UN over religious freedom and funeral rights, recalling Islamabad’s refusal to accept its soldiers’ bodies during the 1999 Kargil War. India also questioned a UN ...
News Pakistan » Religion: India slams Pakistan at UN, questions report for overlooking religious discrimination in developed nations
India criticised Pakistan at the United Nations over alleged discrimination against religious minorities, citing shrinking minority populations and violations of their rights. Indian diplomat Bhavika ...
News Pakistan » Religion: Pakistan: RELIGIOUS FREEDOM OF MINORITY STUDENTS MATTER. By Prof. Anjum James Paul
We are starting with this fundamental principle that we are all citizens and equal citizens of one State.” Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB) is a fundamental human right that guarantees all ...
News Pakistan » Religion: In Pakistan, religious freedom is withering
The torching of churches in Pakistan has brought to global attention the dire state for religious minorities in that troubled country. Matters related to blasphemy represent health and safety hazards ...
News Pakistan » Religion: Nearly 2,100 Indian Sikhs arrive in Pakistan for annual religious festivities
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — More than 2,000 Sikh pilgrims from India arrived Tuesday in eastern Pakistan to join an annual commemoration of the birth of their religion’s founder, officials said, marking ...
News Pakistan » Religion: Religious minorities in Pakistan most affected by modern-day slavery, British report says
LEICESTER, United Kingdom – Religious minorities in Muslim-majority Pakistan are disproportionately made into modern day slaves, according to a new report issued by a group of UK parliamentarians. The ...
News Pakistan » Religion: Christians in Pakistan risk greater persecution from blasphemy laws, while living in poverty
(The Conversation) — Consigned to jobs in sanitation and other hazardous fields, Christians, the largest religious minority group in Pakistan, face a difficult time in the country. (The Conversation) ...
News Pakistan » Religion: Where lynchings still happen
Mohammad Hanif Anwarbhai Vohra, 49, mourns on July 25 at the grave of his elder son Salman Mohammad Hanif Vohra, 23, who was killed in a feud between members of two communities in Anand, India.
News Pakistan » Religion: Religion Vs. State In Pakistan: The 1984 Anti-Ahmadi Law And The Struggle For Constitutional Pluralism – OpEd
Pakistan’s enduring debate over faith and state authority finds its sharpest expression in the 1984 Anti-Ahmadiyya Ordinance — an inflection point at which theology became codified as criminal law.