The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday (Aug. 29) ordered the government to respond to a petition to stop courts from allowing forced conversion and marriage of minority girls in verdicts that act as covers for child rape, sources said. Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah and Justice Ayesha Malik gave the […]
Despite the passage of seven years, the two consecutive governments of Pakistan Peoples Party could not get the law against forced religious conversion passed by the Sindh Assembly regardless of the rising trend of adductions, forced marriages and conversion of young girls belonging to religious minorities. According to Hindu and Christian […]
On Wednesday, August 16, a mob stormed and vandalized over 20 churches, dozens of homes of Christian families, and even a cemetery in Faisalabad’s Jaranwala tehsil. The violence erupted after some locals alleged that several desecrated pages of the Quran had been found near a house at Cinema Chowk in Jaranwala, […]