Tag: religious minority
Rights Watch | 7th January 2021
Shia organizations in Sindh stage protests in various towns and cities across the province against the Hazara Shia coal miners massacre in Macch. Keep reading for more news on the rights situation in Pakistan.
‘Minor’s custody wont be given to anyone if parents still alive’
There have been 21 cases of conversions of mostly Hindu and Christian minor girls only in Bahawalpur in the past few years; around 162 questionable conversions had been reported in the media between 2013 and 2020.
At least 950 booked for alleged hate speech and other violations in Sindh processions
9th October 2020
by Haider Kaleem
LAHORE
Sindh police has booked at least 950 mourners for allegedly blocking roads and for airing ‘hate speech’ when different Shia...
‘Parliamentary committee must examine forced conversions situation in Punjab’
According to evidence the CSJ and PCMR has released a list where out of 74 reported cases of alleged forced conversions and abductions, 55 of them were minor girls from the Christian community, 18 girls were from Hindu and one from the Kalash community.
The deadly virus of forced conversion
By Peter Jacob
It is stressful work to read through the trauma of hundreds of families that have been affected by forced conversions every year...