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A timeline of attacks on religious minorities over the last 12 months

by Areesha Rehan | Hawwa Fazal | Wara Irfan in Dawn online, August 18, 2023On Wednesday, August 16, a mob stormed and vandalised five churches, several homes of Christian families and even a cemetery in Faisalabad’s Jaranwala district. The violence erupted after some locals alleged that several desecrated pages of the Holy Quran had been found near a house at Cinema Chowk in Jaranwala, where two Christian brothers resided. Soon after, members of the Tehreek-i-Labbaik…

World’s Demands on Afghanistan Discussed at Samarkand:

By Mohammad Farshad Daryosh in TOLOnews, April 14, 2023 at 10:06 PMParticipants at the Samarkand summit for countries neighbouring Afghanistan discussed the international community’s demands for an inclusive government and rights for women and minorities, as well as about countering terrorism and the drug trade, according to a statement of Uzbekistan’s foreign ministry. The statement said that the parties in the 4th meeting of neighboring countries of Afghanistan “discussed the existing condition in Afghanistan, the…

Religious minorities face difficulty in obtaining CNIC: report

By Myra Imran in The News, March 02, 2023ISLAMABAD: An in-depth study into the legal barriers faced by religious minorities residing in Pakistan reveals that while numerous basic rights of citizenship in Pakistan are linked of having CNIC, a significant number of religious minorities are reported to have difficulty in obtaining CNIC or unable to obtain one at all. The study findings were discussed at Access to Justice Conference organised by Legal Aid Society, in…