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Maria Shahbaz’s Case Shows Pakistan’s Failure to Protect Minority Girls
A Christian family seeking the return of their daughter faces another delay. On October 21, Pakistan’s Federal Constitutional Court postponed a hearing because officials said they could not deliver a court notice to the accused man due to an “incomplete residential address.” Sheharyar Ahmad faces accusations of abducting Maria Shahbaz in
Pakistan’s Children Need Protection, Not More Promises
A child’s home should offer safety. When it becomes a place of abuse, the failure reaches far beyond its walls. It exposes a society that struggles to protect its youngest members and institutions that too often respond only after harm has occurred. According to the figures attributed to child-rights organisation Sahil,
Pakistan’s Anti-Rape Law: Survivors Still Wait for Justice
In December 2021, Pakistan passed a law to improve the investigation and trial of rape cases. It promised special courts, trained investigators, support centres and trials that should preferably finish within four months. Nearly five years later, many survivors still wait for justice. Government records show that the four provinces registered
Pakistan’s Minorities Still Face Rights Violations Despite New Protective Laws: HRCP
Pakistan’s religious minorities do not want favours. They want safety, dignity and equal rights. But the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) says that, even after new laws, minorities still face blasphemy accusations, mob attacks, forced marriages, forced conversions and daily discrimination. This is not only a report. It is a
Pakistan’s 237,216 Reported Crimes Against Women: A Crisis Hidden by Silence
Pakistan recorded 237,216 reported crimes against women and girls between 2021 and 2025, according to the Peace & Justice Network’s National Gender-Based Violence Crime Report. Yet this number is not the full measure of national shame. It is only what reached a police station before fear, distance, stigma, or institutional indifference
Pakistan: Mob Burns Christian Man’s Home as Families Flee
A mob burned a Christian man’s home and small pharmacy in Pakistan’s Punjab province on Friday, October 9, after accusations that he shared blasphemous material online. More than 35 Christian families fled the village because they feared further attacks. The violence left a community afraid to remain in its homes. The
Invisible Citizens: Pakistan’s Religious Minorities and the Failure of Equal Protection in 2025
Pakistan’s religious minorities continued to face violence, discrimination and persecution in 2025, according to the National Commission for Justice and Peace (NCJP), a human rights body of the Pakistan Catholic Bishops’ Conference. Its Human Rights Monitor 2026 presents a deeply troubling picture. Christians were targeted by blasphemy accusations, while minority women
Lahore’s Rape Crisis: A Justice System That Counts Cases But Convicts No One
Lahore is bleeding in silence. In just eight months of 2026, police records show 498 reported rape cases and 36 gang-rape cases—more than four reported sexual offences every single day. These are not abstract numbers. They are daughters, sisters, mothers, and neighbours whose lives have been shattered, often inside the very
Laws ignored, girls abandoned: UN rapporteurs condemn Pakistan’s failure to stop forced conversions and child marriage
On October 1, 2026, three UN special rapporteurs delivered a stark warning to Pakistan at a Human Rights Council side‑event in Geneva: laws on paper mean nothing when courts, police and prosecutors look away. Their words came as families of abducted girls played video testimonies from dark rooms, begging for help
Christian Man Beaten After Blasphemy Accusation in Lahore
Before a court could hear the evidence against Samuel Arif, a crowd had already beaten him. The 26-year-old Christian man from Lahore is now in jail, accused of blasphemy. His family says the charge is false. Whatever the complaint’s merits, the attack on him demands scrutiny in its own right. Police
No Honour in Violence: Pakistan Must Stop Blaming Women
In Pakistan, a woman can be raped and still be asked what she did to cause it. She can be harassed over her clothes, location, or character. She can be murdered in the name of honour. Yet people still debate her choices instead of condemning the crime. This thinking is wrong.
Ahmadi Man Injured in Faisalabad Knife Attack Amid Rising Faith-Based Violence
An Ahmadi Muslim man was injured in a knife attack in Lathianwala, Faisalabad, on 21 September, adding to growing concern over violence against the Ahmadi community in Punjab. Hamid Javed was attacked near his home in Chak No. 194-RB at around 5:30 pm, according to a police report. He was returning
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A Father’s Cry: Missing Teen, Forced Marriage, and a System That Failed
A quiet farming village in Pakistan’s Punjab has become the center of a family’s unending nightmare—a story marked by fear, helplessness, and a desperate search for justice. Liaqat Masih still remembers the day his world fell apart. On April 3, while he and his wife labored in the fields to provide
From Pooja to Dua Fatima: Exposing Sindh’s Minority Crisis
In the sweltering streets of Hyderabad, a mother’s worst nightmare unfolded, ripping apart the fragile world of a Hindu family. Pooja, a bright 9th-grade girl and beloved daughter of Ramsun Thakur, vanished without a trace—abducted, they say, by forces that prey on the powerless. Her parents’ hearts shatter as they recount
From Worship to Ashes: Pattoki Christian Family Loses Home in Alleged Revenge Arson
In Pattoki, Punjab, a Christian family has been reduced to homelessness in a deliberate arson attack that raises urgent questions about justice, protection, and equality in Pakistan. On 5 July 2026, Arshad Masih (34), his wife Kafia Bibi (33), and their two young sons, Haniyal (8) and Abraham (5), were attending
Gilgit-Baltistan: The Silent Suffering of Shia Minorities Under Military Occupation
In the serene valleys of Gilgit-Baltistan, where snow-capped peaks meet flowing rivers, a tragic reality has persisted for over seven decades—one that remains largely invisible to the world. The Shia communities here, once the majority, live under the shadow of fear, oppression, and systematic violence orchestrated by the Pakistani military and
A Crisis Normalized: Pakistan’s Escalating Persecution of Religious Minorities and the Global Failure to Respond
The steady escalation of persecution against religious minorities in Pakistan is no longer a quiet crisis—it is a glaring indictment of both national failure and global indifference. Year after year, reports repeat the same grim pattern: targeted violence, systemic discrimination, and a justice system that too often turns away from those
“Chura” Slur, Sewage Humiliation: Christian Worker Noman Masih Seeks Justice in Pasrur
PASRUR, PUNJAB, PAKISTAN — A reported incident involving Christian worker Noman Masih in Pasrur has raised serious concerns about the safety and dignity of religious minorities in Pakistan. According to Masih’s account, the incident took place while he was doing his work. He says that a group of men verbally abused
The Silent Erasure of Faith: How Pakistan Fails Its Own Heritage
The heart of Karachi beats with centuries of history. Yet, one of its oldest spiritual symbols—the Ramchandra Mandir—now stands suffocated behind cold cement walls and iron gates adorned with Islamic inscriptions. On Ratan Talao Street, just steps from the Preedy Police Station, a place once resonating with prayer and coexistence has
Pakistan Police Torture Christian Father to Death in Custody
Imagine the shattering ring of your husband’s phone—his voice silenced, replaced by a stranger’s cold demand. That’s how Nazia Masih’s world crumbled on March 26 in Lahore’s Sadhoki Kahna Nau neighborhood. Her husband, Iftikhar Masih, a devoted Catholic father of four and a humble gardener at the University of Lahore, was
Honor Without Justice: The Enduring Tragedy of Honor Killings in Pakistan
The continued use of “honor” as a justification for killing women in Pakistan reflects a disturbing contradiction between law and reality. While legal reforms have attempted to curb such crimes, the persistence of these killings reveals a deeper crisis—one rooted in social norms, power structures, and weak enforcement of justice. According