The killing of Jagannath and Asa Wanti inside a gurudwara in Mardan is not just another tragic headline—it is a moral indictment of a state that continues to fail its most vulnerable citizens. On June 17, an elderly Sikh couple, both around 70 years old, were shot dead inside a place […]
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. […]
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 […]