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Pakistan religious minorities

February 09, 2023
An Alarming New Bill Takes Aim at Pakistan’s Shias
By Asad Gokal and Jaffer A. Mirza
Pakistan is strengthening its controversial anti-blasphemy laws – with potentially deadly results for religious minority groups.

February 14, 2022
Pakistan Continues to Exhibit Gory ‘Islamophobia’ Against Ahmadis
By Kunwar Khuldune Shahid
Pakistan is indubitably more phobic of the Ahmadiyya sect, and their interpretation of Islam, than most of the states that Khan vocally deems “Islamophobic.”

July 30, 2021
Pakistan’s Social Media Is Overflowing With Hate Speech Against Ahmadis
By Tehreem Azeem
The minority community has always faced persecution in the real world. Online, it’s become even more common.

June 30, 2021
Imran Khan Has Normalized Prejudice in Pakistan
By Farahnaz Ispahani
Pakistan is already known for having little tolerance for its religious minorities. Khan and the PTI have aggravated the problem.

April 06, 2021
Pakistan’s Shias Face Double Threat: Extremists and Their Own Government
By Jaffer A. Mirza
With their safety at stake, Pakistan’s beleaguered Shia community is seeking justice from the country’s founder.

January 01, 2021
Pakistan Arrests 24 People Over Demolishing of Hindu Temple
By Associated Press
A Hindu temple was set on fire and demolished by a mob led by supporters of a radical Islamist party.

July 08, 2020
Pakistan’s Hinduphobia
By Kunwar Khuldune Shahid
The government’s plan to support the Shri Krishna temple in Islamabad has sparked a predictable, but still deplorable, backlash.

April 28, 2020
COVID-19 Fans Religious Discrimination in Pakistan
By Jaffer Abbas Mirza
Referring to COVID-19 as “the Shia virus.” Denying aid to Christians and Hindus. These are only a few examples of faith-based discrimination in Pakistan.

March 16, 2020
Religious Minorities in ‘Naya Pakistan’
By Jaffer A. Mirza
31 dead, 58 injured, and 25 blasphemy cases – that’s the toll taken on Pakistan’s religious minorities since Prime Minister Imran Khan took office.

February 12, 2020
Hindu Temple Handover: Inter-Faith Harmony on Display in Balochistan
By Adnan Aamir
A 200-year-old temple has been handed back to the local Hindu community after being taken over in 1947.

October 28, 2019
Ahmadis Once Again Fear the Fallout From Pakistan’s Political Tussles
By Kunwar Khuldune Shahid
“All political issues, which have nothing to do with us, see us becoming the scapegoats,” says the Ahmadiyya community’s spokesperson.

August 28, 2019
What Really Caused the Violence of Partition?
By Guneeta Singh Bhalla
Neighbors didn’t kill neighbors in 1947. Contested Partition histories need a revisit, now more than ever.
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