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 […]
In the dusty lanes of Sadiqabad, a silent wound has reopened—a wound etched deep into the soul of Pakistan’s Christian sanitation workers. On a sweltering August afternoon, that wound bled again. A Christian man, barely surviving on his daily labor, was struck with a brick to the head, not for wrongdoing, […]
UN human rights experts have issued a stark warning to the government of Pakistan, urging it to take immediate and effective measures to address the growing violence, extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrests, and attacks on places of worship targeting religious minorities, especially the Ahmadiyya community. The experts expressed deep concern over the […]