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Tag: Pakistan Religious Freedom

July 25, 2021

Religious Minorities in Pakistan Face a...

Hindus are Pakistan’s largest non-Muslim community, accounting for two to four percent of the country’s population.But Human Rights activists and International Human Rights Organizations appealed time and again that Pakistan’s goverment must respect the Hindu community’s right to freedom of religion and belief, including the right to build temples to practise it

January 13, 2021

Murder of Two young Christians, Killed...

The merciless murder of Abida and Sajida is a tragedy that shows how the lives of religious minorities in Pakistan are held by a thread or is worthless. Rape, kidnappings, forced conversions and even murders of young Christian girls are worrying phenomena

January 7, 2021

Christians Welcome Pakistan Government’s New...

We appreciate the government’s renewed commitment to the protection of Pakistan’s religious minorities, especially the protection of those falsely accused and the protection of innocent underage girls trapped in forced conversions and forced marriages. The initiative of the Government Office for Interreligious Harmony will certainly strengthen peace and harmony between people of various religions and will lead people of religious minorities not to live in fear “

November 14, 2020

Arrest warrant for the Muslim Religious...

Karachi court issued an arrest warrant, without the possibility of bail, for Qazi Mufti Ahmed Jaan Raheemi, an Islamic religious accused of having celebrated the marriage of a Christian minor girl, Neha Pervaiz, kidnapped and forced to convert to Islam in April 2019. Neha Pervaiz managed to escape from her 45-year-old husband after a week in captivit

November 8, 2020

Pak Police have Freed the 13-Year-Old...

The police meanwhile arrested the kidnapper Ali Azhar, who had kidnapped the girl on 13 October morning, had forced her to marry and convert to Islam on the same day

October 24, 2020

Catholic Girl Abducted and Converted to...

As reported to Fides by local sources, the case, which occurred in the large metropolis of Karachi, concerns, in particular, the Catholic community of Saint Anthony parish. Arzoo’s family lives in “Quarter 8 City”, of the Railway Colony, in the western part of the city of Karachi

October 2, 2020

A Senate Committee in Pakistan Rejected...

A Senate committee in Pakistan rejected a bill calling for the protection of religious minorities and their rights which therefore will not be scheduled in the Senate’s proceedings and will not be debated or voted. As Agenzia Fides learns, the draft law, called “Protection of Rights of Minorities Bill, 2020” was presented in September by Senator Javed Abbasi, a member of the Pakistan Muslim League-N

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