On Thursday, April 11, U.N. Human Rights experts issued a call for Pakistan to implement legal reforms in response to the ongoing vulnerability of women and girls from minority faiths to forced marriages and religious conversions. The U.N. special rapporteurs urged Pakistan to increase the legal marriage age for girls to […]
Members of the Christian community suspect that a Muslim individual, who previously declared his intention to prevent them from observing Easter, orchestrated a fire believed to have been deliberately set at their place of worship on Saturday (March 30) in Rawalpindi District, Pakistan. Reverend Adeem Alphonse of the United Presbyterian Junior […]
On March 13, 2024, in Basti Khaliq Pura, Multan, a distressing incident was reported involving 13-year-old Roshani Shakeel, a member of the Christian community. She was allegedly kidnapped, subjected to forced conversion to Islam, and subsequently married to her abductor, Muazzam Mazher. Nazia Shakeel, the victim’s mother, recounted the sequence of […]