Pakistan

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Beaten in Public for Asking What Was Hers: A Christian Mother’s Reality in Pakistan
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Beaten in Public for Asking What Was Hers: A Christian Mother’s Reality in Pakistan

The woman in the photograph is not a criminal, a protester, or a threat to public order. She is a Christian mother in...

Zarnab: A 13-Year-Old Christian Girl Brutalised for a Minor Mistake
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Zarnab: A 13-Year-Old Christian Girl Brutalised for a Minor Mistake

Zarnab is a Pakistani Christian child, no older than 13 or 14. She was working as a domestic worker not by choice, but...

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Christian Persecution in Pakistan: Laws, Fear, and the Cost of Silence

In Pakistan, being Christian often means living with a quiet but constant sense of vulnerability. Christians make up a small minority of the...

Who is Anwar Kenneth?
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Who is Anwar Kenneth?

Anwar Kenneth is a Pakistani Christian who spent more than 20 years on death row after being convicted under Pakistan’s blasphemy laws in...

Pastor Zafar Bhatti: Thirteen Years in Prison Without Proof, and a Case That Still Haunts Pakistan’s Justice System
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Pastor Zafar Bhatti: Thirteen Years in Prison Without Proof, and a Case That Still Haunts Pakistan’s Justice System

For more than thirteen years, Pastor Zafar Bhatti remained behind bars in Pakistan, accused of blasphemy despite the absence of solid evidence against...

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Jaranwala: When Justice Was Promised but Never Delivered

In August 2023, the town of Jaranwala became a symbol of everything that is broken about minority protection in Pakistan.