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 […]
Religious diversity should enrich societies, foster tolerance, and give people the freedom to live according to their beliefs. In Pakistan, however, religious diversity has too often become a source of division, discrimination, and violence. A new report by the Washington D.C.-based Center for the Study of Organized Hate (CSOH) finds that […]
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. […]