Islamabad, April 24 (IANS) Pakistan’s treatment of religious minorities, particularly Sikh and Hindu women, remains deeply troubling, with human rights reports, including those from the United Nations and local activists, documenting hundreds of cases each year of abduction, grooming, forced conversion, and marriage.Many cases reportedly involve pressure in custody or threats to families, while Sikh communities in Pakistan repeatedly raised alarms over targetted harassment and conversions, a rep…
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Islamabad, March 4 (IANS) A minority Christian boy in Pakistan was forcibly converted to Islam, highlighting yet another case of injustice against vulnerable communities, said a leading minority rights group. According to the Voice of Pakistan Minority (VOPM), 14-year-old Jameel Masih, from Sheikhupura district in Punjab, had worked at a local landlord’s cattle shed for five years before being abducted. His father, Sharif Masih, a daily wage labourer, had exchanged his son’s labour for five …
New Delhi, Jan 22 (IANS) Pakistan’s power sector is facing a deep crisis with consumers being made to pay huge electricity bills amidst frequent outages, with reports emanating from the Pakistan media attributing the mess to misgovernance, corruption, underinvestment, and an unpredictable policy.”Pakistan’s electricity sector is structurally broken. Nepra’s latest review of the national transmission system reads like an indictment of prolonged neglect. One of the largest transmission networks …