India and The Challenge of Statelessness- A Review of The legal Framework related to Nationality
India and the Challenge of Stateless-A Review of the Legal Framework relating to Nationality
Misuse of the Blasphemy Law and Religious Minorities in Pakistan
Blasphemy Law in Pakistan: Historical Perspectives and Disastrous Effects The state of Pakistan was formed on August 14, 1947 as a division of India on democratic lines, recognizing the religious…
Religious Minorities in Pakistan
Politics of pluralism Pakistan is an immensely plural country characterized by religious, sectarian and ethno-linguistic diversities. It is an overwhelmingly Muslim community with more than 90 per cent of its…
PAKISTAN: THE SITUATION OF RELIGIOUS MINORITIES
Introduction Pakistan is a country of approximately 172 million people, of whom around 95-96 percent areMuslims, comprising roughly 80 percent Sunni and 20 percent Shia. For the purposes of thisreport…
Persecution and Discrimination of Hindus in Pakistan
Under the unrelenting persecution and hate it is no surprise that Pakistan’s Hindu and Sikh minorities are fast disappearing with India being the favoured destination for the refugees with large…
Forced Conversions & Forced Marriages In Sindh, Pakistan
Executive Summary It has been estimated that 1000 women and girls from religious minorities are abducted, forcibly converted and then married off to their abductors every year (ref The Aurat…
Minorities under attack: Faith-based discrimination and violence in Pakistan
1. IntroductionFollowing growing incidents of violence, intolerance and discrimination towards members ofreligious and sectarian minority communities across Pakistan, the Human Rights Commissionof Pakistan (HRCP) convened the Working Group…
Persecution and Discrimination of Hindus in Pakistan
I think it important to harken back to the very foundation of Pakistan, and in doing so recall the words of the nation’s founder and first governor-general, Muhammad Ali Jinnah.…
Alleged kidnapped Hindu girls return to husbands after alleged death threats
April 19, 2012 : Rinkle Kumari, and two other Hindu girls, Lata and Asha, have decided to return to their husbands, after Pakistan's Supreme Court allowed them to make the…