Pakistan minorities News

Atrocities are on a high against minority communities in Pakistan. Young daughters of Sikhs, Hindus are targetted, abducted and forcefully converted to Islam. In most of such cases, convict get scot-free.

India has expressed its concern over the killing of 82-year-old Ahmadi man in Pakistan. This is the fourth such killing of an Ahmadi, who are considered minorities in Pakistan.

Nine family members of a converted Sikh girl from Nankana Sahib have written to authorities asking them to make a passport for them as they want to leave Pakistan. A letter read, "Please be kind to us to hand over Jagjit Kaur to us" or "have our passports made so, that we can live a dignified and safe life in another country". A court had earlier ruled that Jagjit should go with her "husband" Muhammad Hassan who said that Jagjit alias Ayesha Bibi married to him on her own accord.

Bachelet mentioned the case of Junaid Hafeez, a university lecturer in Pakistan, who has been sentenced to death in December for blasphemy.

About thirty thousand refugees lives in the country currently, Will the refugees get the Indian citizenship today.

Slamming Pakistan, India firmly said that the world doesn't need lessons on human rights of minorities from a country whose own citizens, as well as minorities, have never enjoyed true democracy.

A former member of the Provincial Assembly from Barikot (Reserved) seat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly, the 43-year-old says he was falsely charged with the murder of Soran Singh, the then special adviser to the chief minister. He was finally acquitted in 2018 due to lack of evidence.

Speaking at the United Nations meet on Safety of Religious Minorities in New York, US, Human Rights Focus Pakistan President Naveed Walter claimed that his country is biased in its behaviour towards the minorities.

Human rights activists and Hindu groups in Pakistan have condemned the growing incidents of kidnapping of Hindu girls and their forced conversion to Islam.