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Peter Jacob, a human rights activist and a Catholic layman from Pakistan, together with his NGO Center for Social Justice" (CSJ), received the International Religious Freedom Award from the U.S. Department of State Office of International Religious Freedom for his faithful efforts to help religious minorities in Pakistan.
A Human Rights Observer 2023 fact sheet reveals that the religious content against minorities has increased in curriculum and textbooks during 2022 and a number of perennial and new challenges have emerged in the education system, The Dawn reported.
A Christian man was shot dead in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province on Saturday, in what officials say is the second incident of target killing of minorities in the last 24 hours, reported The Khorasan Diary.
Unidentified attackers on Friday shot dead a trader belonging to the Sikh community in Peshawar Dir Colony on the Ring Road in the limits of the Rahman Baba P
CSJ’s factsheet shows the increasing religious content in curriculum and textbooks, and a number of perennial and new challenges