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Pakistan: Brutal Killing of Christian Youth Raises Urgent Questions on Minority Safety
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — Morning should have brought nothing more than the ordinary comfort of breakfast. Instead, it became the final moment in the life of 22-year-old Zain Masih—a young man whose future was cut short in a burst of violence that has left a family shattered and a community in mourning.
Stabbed in His Sleep: The Killing of a Christian Man in Pakistan
The silence of the night was shattered by violence that had left a family broken and a community shaken. Imran Masih, a railway employee and the sole provider for his loved ones, was brutally killed inside his own home on the night of May 30. As he slept, unaware of the
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.
Pakistan’s Sewer Deaths Expose a Brutal Truth About Discrimination
The deaths of Christian sanitation workers in Pakistan are no longer isolated tragedies. They are part of a deadly pattern that exposes how poverty, discrimination, and official neglect continue to trap an entire community in dangerous work that many others refuse to do. In just over a month, at least six
Pakistan’s Christian Sanitation Workers Risk Everything—And Keep Dying
At least six sanitation workers—fathers, sons, and breadwinners—have died in recent weeks in Pakistan’s Punjab and Sindh provinces, their lives cut short not by accident, but by a system that continues to send them into danger unprotected. Another worker still fights for his life, a grim reminder that these tragedies are
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
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
When the State Decides Your Faith: The Persecution of Ahmadis in Pakistan
In Pakistan, the situation of the Ahmadiyya community is often described by human rights observers as one of the most restrictive religious frameworks in the modern world. At the centre of it lies something unusual and deeply consequential: laws that not only regulate behaviour, but also decide who is legally recognised
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“Seventeen Days Without Silence”: Pakistan’s Christians End a Historic Sit-In with a Promise—and a Warning
On a humid Tuesday evening, Sept. 2, the chants softened into hymns. After an unprecedented 17 days of fasting, prayers, and sleepless vigils, the Christians of Jaranwala folded their placards and did something they had not done since Aug. 16: they went home. They did not leave in defeat. They left
A Nation Failing Its Women: Rising Violence, Vanishing Justice in Pakistan
Pakistan’s crisis of violence against women is often reduced to numbers—but behind every statistic is a life interrupted, a voice silenced, and a story that never received justice. The data is important, but it does not fully capture the fear, the grief, and the quiet suffering that define this reality. Still,
Persecuted in Their Own Land: The Dire State of Religious Freedom in Pakistan
Religious diversity should enrich societies, foster tolerance, and give people the freedom to live according to their beliefs. In Pakistan, however, religious diversity has too often become a source of division, discrimination, and violence. A new report by the Washington D.C.-based Center for the Study of Organized Hate (CSOH) finds that
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
Recorded, Not Protected: Islamabad’s Alarming Zero-Conviction Crisis on Violence Against Women (Jan–Jun 2025)
In Islamabad, the numbers do not lie—they accuse. Between January and June 2025, 373 cases of violence against women were reported in the federal capital. Not a single one resulted in a conviction. Not for rape. Not for kidnapping. Not for physical abuse. Not for harassment, cybercrime, or even honour killings.
“We Left With Nothing”: Women in Punjab’s Flood Camps Are Fighting a Second, Silent Battle
When the Ravi River spilled its banks and turned neighborhoods into brown, endless lakes, mothers carried children through the water and fathers clutched plastic bags of documents above their heads. In the rush, whole lives were left on drowned streets—wedding trunks, school certificates, framed photographs. What followed was a scramble to