During the initial months of this year, there has been a marked escalation in the incidents of abduction, forced marriage, and conversion of young Christian girls in various districts of Punjab province, Pakistan, including Lahore, Faisalabad, Sheikhupura, and Sialkot. The visibility of these incidents has increased somewhat due to the exposure […]
Tragedy struck on the morning of April 7 at the Sindha Green Pulses Mill in Hyderabad’s SITE area, claiming the lives of 27-year-old Uzmi Masih and his 25-year-old cousin Amir Masih. The young men, both fathers, succumbed to poisonous fumes after descending into a drain during an off-day, lured by the […]
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 […]