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A Christian Family’s Ordeal Ends in Tragedy: The Death of Premi Masih
In Muridke, a young life has been cut short under circumstances that have left a grieving family shattered and a community shaken. Premi Masih, just 22 years old, did not simply die in an act of violence—his death is being mourned as the tragic culmination of fear, intimidation, and alleged injustice
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
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“We Live Here Too”: KP’s Transgender Community Faces a Spreading Campaign of Exclusion
On a warm night in Swabi, music drifted across a market rooftop until the sound collided with a threat that’s become all too familiar: leave. For the transgender community in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), the latest push by local elders to expel them from the district is not a one-off flare of
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.
On the Eve of National Minorities Day, Pakistan’s Forgotten Voices Demand Justice
LAHORE/KARACHI/ISLAMABAD – As Pakistan prepared to mark National Minorities Day on August 11 — a day meant to honor diversity, unity, and equal citizenship — the mood in minority communities was far from celebratory. Instead of parades of pride, there were tears of frustration, voices choked with pain, and memories of
Murdered for Faith: How Pakistan’s Government Fails to Protect Its Christian Minorities
In a harrowing incident that has left the Christian community in shock, 32-year-old Asif Raza, an unmarried Christian man from Munwar Town Bhatta, Daniwal, District Vehari, Punjab, was brutally murdered in an attack by a Muslim extremist group. Asif, who had been engaged and was eagerly preparing for marriage, met a
Only 37 Left: The Silent Ethnic Erasure of Hindu and Sikh Worship Sites in Pakistan
Pakistan loves to speak of its pluralistic past — the land where Hindu temples, Sikh gurdwaras, Sufi shrines and ancient civilizations once stood side by side. Yet behind this rhetoric lies a heartbreaking truth: out of 1,285 Hindu worship sites and 532 gurdwaras recorded on paper, only 37 remain functional today.
“We Just Want a Place to Live”: Christian Families of Islamabad’s Rimsha Colony Plead for Justice
A wave of anguish swept through the narrow streets of Rimsha Colony in Islamabad’s H-9 sector as hundreds of its residents took to the streets, carrying placards and crying out for justice. Their voices trembled with fear and frustration as they protested against the Capital Development Authority (CDA), which has directed