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Sikh Blood Spilled in a Gurudwara in Pakistan

The killing of Jagannath and Asa Wanti inside a gurudwara in Mardan is not just another tragic headline—it is a moral indictment of a state that continues to fail its most vulnerable citizens. On June 17, an elderly Sikh couple, both around 70 years old, were shot dead inside a place

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Pakistan’s Ahmadis Face Escalating Pressure Before Eid

As Eid-ul-Azha approaches, a time meant to embody sacrifice, compassion, and faith, a very different reality is unfolding for Pakistan’s Ahmadiyya community. Instead of preparation and prayer, many are bracing for fear. Despite Amnesty International raising urgent alarm over escalating violence and discrimination, the threats have not subsided. They have intensified.

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The Price of Silence: Punjab’s Child Brides

In the fertile heart of Pakistan’s Punjab, where fields promise life and continuity, a quieter, harsher reality persists. According to the Bureau of Statistics, 15% of children here are married before they turn 18. Behind that number are not just statistics, but stolen childhoods—girls pulled from classrooms into lives they never

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Judiciary in Chains: How Pakistan’s Blasphemy Mafia Rules the Courts and the State

Pakistan’s blasphemy laws have become a tool of systematic coercion, allowing organised religious groups and their allies to intimidate judges, prosecutors, police, and politicians, effectively holding the justice system and wider state machinery hostage. This “blasphemy complex” relies on fear of mob violence, targeted killings, and economic blackmail to paralyse institutions

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The Blasphemy Trap: How Pakistan’s Laws Endanger Minorities in the Digital Age

A Digital Weaponization of Faith Pakistan’s blasphemy laws, once framed as safeguards for religious sanctity, are increasingly exploited as tools of fear, control, and profit. Human rights groups now describe a growing “blasphemy business,” in which fabricated screenshots, doctored images, fake social media accounts, and false witness statements are used to

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The Heartbreaking Death of Muqaddas, 14-Year-Old Christian Girl Tortured in Kidnapping Nightmare in Pakistan

A tidal wave of grief and fury has crashed over Pakistan today, as 14-year-old Muqaddas—a bright-eyed Christian girl from Sadiqabad, Punjab—breathed her last in a Karachi ICU. Her tiny body, broken by unimaginable horrors, couldn’t withstand the brutality inflicted by a ruthless cross-provincial kidnapping and trafficking ring. Muqaddas and her innocent

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The Forced Islamization of Pakistan’s religious minorities

Sonja Dahlmans Introduction Every year, between approximately 1,000 and 2,000 minor girls from Pakistan’s religious minority communities are abducted, forcibly married (to a Muslim man), and forced to convert to Islam. The OHCHR expressed its concern regarding the vulnerability of minor girls from non-Muslim families in 2024, stating that: “The exposure

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