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Religious freedom conditions in Pakistan continued to worsen. There was a sharp rise in targeted killings, blasphemy cases, forced conversions, and hate speech targeting religious minorities. In 2020, there reportedly were 30 Christians, including seven on death row, jailed in Pakistan on charges of blasphemy, said the report. Washington: Religious freedom conditions in Pakistan continue to worsen as the government systematically enforced blasphemy and anti-Ahmadiyya laws, according to a report released by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). The USCIRF ...

Highlights Twenty-two-year old Aarti Chawla is the latest victim of alleged oppression by the majority Muslim community. Seven Hindu girls were converted to Islam and married to Muslim men twice or thrice their age. New Delhi: Twenty-two-year old Aarti Chawla is the latest victim of alleged oppression by the majority Muslim community on the hapless Hindu girls. She was allegedly abducted by a factory worker Mohammad Fawad who married her after converting her to Islam. Aarti alias Ayesha is now in Dar ul Aman, Larkana, a city in Sindh province of Pakistan, and has even refused to recognize he...

“Religious conversion by 'carrot and stick' and by 'hook or crook' not only offends Articles 14, 21, 25, but is also against the principles of secularism, which is integral part of basic structure of Constitution.

Conference on Minority Women demands addressing gender and faith-based inequality March 9, 2021 LAHORE, Pakistan: The Centre of Social Justice (CSJ) organized a Conference on the “Status of Minority Women and their Rights and Challenges” in Lahore on Tuesday in connection with International Women’s Day 2021. The themes discussed in the Conference included socio-economic and legal rights of minority women, right to education, right to health, protection against forced conversions, and gender-based violence (GBV). The Conference was attended by eminent scholars, economists, and legal expe...

She was then brought before a cleric who held a public conversion ceremony. Some old men gathered around her and formed a circle and read some Islamic prayers. The images are disturbing, to say the least. Pakistan authorities said that the girl claims to be over 18-years-old and has converted of her own free will. This is an excuse that we hear over and over and over again. Every time a minor girl is converted, Pakistan says she did so willfully. Matter of free will! In August 2020, a 14-year-old Christian girl Maria Shahbaz was abducted and married in a similar fashion.