On August 15, the National Commission for Justice and Peace (NCJP), a Catholic Church body, released a devastating study titled “Hope Behind Bars.” Its findings uncover a grim reality: Pakistan’s prisons are not merely places of confinement, but sites of deep-rooted prejudice where minority inmates — particularly Christians, Hindus, and Sikhs […]
Dayal Singh, the elder brother of Suchan Singh, who lives in Peshawar, was shot dead by unknown persons in his shop a few months ago. Suchan Singh also had to go through many painful steps to perform his brother’s last rites after the tragedy as there is no crematorium in Peshawar. […]
Radesh Singh Tony survived three assassination attempts in 2018, forcing him and his family to flee their home in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar. Tony, a member of the tiny Sikh religious minority in predominately Muslim Pakistan, had run in the parliamentary elections that year on a platform of tolerance. The […]