MINORITY RIGHTS
Buner residents leading election campaign of Hindu community candidate.
Updated 25 Jan, 2024 11:49am
Speakers at seminar call for fundamental rights, civil liberties for minorities.
Updated 24 Jan, 2024 11:59am
Peter Jacob publicly calls for the repeal or reform of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws and addressing the widespread misuse of these laws.
Updated 22 Jan, 2024 11:06am
“My manifesto is inspired by my community, and all the struggles we have endured," she says.
Updated 17 Jan, 2024 10:11am
Foreign Office points out India's absence from the list, says Pakistan is conveying its concern about the categorisation to the US.
Published 08 Jan, 2024 07:57pm
Bishop Amanat Masih, Kashif Panizai, Benjamin Stephen, Suneel Malik, and others share their perspectives during the gathering.
Updated 08 Jan, 2024 10:25am
Sobia Khan claims support of elders, youth in PK-81 constituency.
Published 04 Jan, 2024 09:07am
From risky summits to representing Pakistan in media to women and minorities making themselves heard locally, this year has been historic.
Updated 26 Dec, 2023 03:32pm
Raids being conducted to arrest other members of the network.
Updated 04 Dec, 2023 10:39am
For Christians, no consolation or compensation can bring back what they have lost — dreams, jobs and even homes.
Updated 17 Nov, 2023 12:54pm
Visiting media reporters included representatives from the Washington Post, BBC, AFP, Arab News, Russia Today, among others.
Updated 13 Oct, 2023 11:35am
Religious fanaticism spreads when those in power deliberately employ faith to further their political ambitions.
Updated 07 Oct, 2023 09:33am
Fact-finding mission says TLP protest, incendiary sermons escalated likelihood of violence against minority community.
Updated 07 Oct, 2023 10:24am
Law officer says govt decided not to form judicial commission in the light of reports submitted by JITs.
Updated 03 Oct, 2023 10:42am
Civil society activists face legal proceedings, jail sentences, travel bans and threats for cooperating with UN’s rights mechanism, UN report says.
Updated 02 Oct, 2023 10:15am
"Islam is a religion of peace and there is no space for intolerance and extremism in Islam and society," says army chief.
Published 25 Sep, 2023 06:51pm
Construction of 100-kanal graveyard for Christians incomplete even though work on 900-kanal cemetery for Muslims has already been completed.
Published 25 Sep, 2023 07:05am
Delegation calls on University of Sahiwal vice-chancellor, highlight underrepresentation of minorities in higher education.
Updated 22 Sep, 2023 11:20am
TLP says it will demolish minarets of the building built by country's first foreign minister Sir Zafarullah Khan.
Updated 22 Sep, 2023 10:02am
Community spokesperson says efforts are under way to register a first information report of the crime.
Updated 21 Sep, 2023 07:35pm
The suspect will be presented in a court tomorrow (Sunday) to secure his physical remand, says police official.
Updated 16 Sep, 2023 11:44pm
Justice Sheikh maintains that when the Ahmadis built their worship place, its architectural design did not violate any law then in force.
Published 14 Sep, 2023 05:45am
PPP condemns secretariat’s move sans consulting members over ‘mismatched signatures’; SC to take up plea seeking justice for mob violence victims today.
Updated 08 Sep, 2023 08:36am
Reverend Father Eleazar Sidhu, who serves a church in Jaranwala, had received threats days ago; discharged from hospital.
Updated 05 Sep, 2023 07:46am
Community's spokesperson says attackers "broke the minarets, vandalised the place, and raised inciting slogans"; police register FIR.
Updated 04 Sep, 2023 10:54pm
Protest sit-ins held in Kashmore, Larkana and Karachi against abduction of members of Hindu community and increasing incidents of robberies.
Updated 04 Sep, 2023 08:11am
Community members say lack of infrastructure poses challenges when performing cremation rituals under extreme weather conditions.
Updated 31 Aug, 2023 10:28am
Recommends reviewing blasphemy laws so that they are not misused against individuals or any religious minority.
Published 26 Aug, 2023 06:36am
About 1,000 Christians protest in US, urging UN to persuade Pakistan to make laws to end future attacks on minorities.
Published 26 Aug, 2023 06:35am
Says it can't rule out suspicion that the attacks were part of a "larger campaign of hatred against the local Christians".
Published 25 Aug, 2023 11:49pm
