Trends - Violence against Hindus

Bill to set up minorities’ body passed amid outcry

Proposed commission to have 18 members from all non-Muslim communities; law minister insists bill will not dilute anti-Ahmadiyya provisions.

Updated 03 Dec, 2025 07:34am

HRCP report shows alarming rise in violence against minorities

Two individuals accused of blasphemy extra-judicially killed by police while seeking protection from hostile mobs.

Updated 20 Aug, 2025 11:31am

‘Mazhab nahi, soch badlo’: Religious minorities seek end to forced conversions, intolerance

Jinnah’s oft-quoted speech of Pakistani citizens being free to go to temples and places of worship remains relegated to the history textbooks.

Updated 11 Aug, 2025 05:41pm

Out of tune

Constitutional assurances of freedom to practise faith and protection of life and liberty for all citizens ring hollow for many of Pakistan’s religious minorities.

Updated 02 Feb, 2025 04:39pm

UN rights body concerned at internet/social media blackouts

College girl’s "rape" issue resounds in Geneva besides religious intolerance, curbs on rights activists, Pashtun/Baloch students.

Updated 19 Oct, 2024 12:51pm

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE IN PAKISTAN

For more than seven decades, Pakistan and Pakistanis have harboured a unique ability to discriminate against people on every possible metric.

Updated 11 Aug, 2024 10:25pm

Man jumps into well to escape cop’s rage

Victim’s family claims he took the extreme step after having been subjected to violence by a policeman.

Updated 09 Sep, 2022 10:29am

Mithi police arrest suspect for forcing Hindu man to hurl obscenities at deities

The suspect had stopped the Hindu man on a main road and roughed him up, forcing him to denounce his religion.

Updated 27 Jul, 2021 06:51pm

SC orders EPTB to start reconstruction of damaged Hindu shrine in Karak

CJP says incident caused "international embarrassment for Pakistan", reconstruction money "should be taken from instigators".

Updated 05 Jan, 2021 10:23pm

Elderly woman among two wounded as protestors, police clash in Umerkot

PPP chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari takes notice of "police brutality against members of minority community".

Updated 10 Jun, 2019 07:17am

Editorial: Govt needs to address systemic failures that enable forced conversions to flourish

Laws needed across country for guarantee of life and liberty of minorities must be embraced by all our citizens.

Published 26 Mar, 2019 08:36am

Editorial: Is interfaith harmony in Sindh being threatened by rising extremism and religiosity?

If respect is demanded for the majority faith, this courtesy must extend to the minority religions as well.

Updated 24 Mar, 2019 05:37pm

PM Khan orders probe into attack on Khairpur Hindu temple

"This is against the teachings of the Quran," asserts prime minister.

Updated 24 Mar, 2019 05:37pm

14-year-old Hindu girl married off to 55-year-old man recovered by Thar police

Police arrest the accused groom and the girl's father, who allegedly received money to agree to the marriage.

Published 10 Mar, 2018 08:50pm

SHC CJ orders police protection for Hindu rape victim, her family

Provincial chief justice takes suo motu notice of Hindu girl's alleged rape by influential person.

Updated 02 Jan, 2018 07:42am

Teenage Hindu girl abducted, forcibly converted in Thar, claims family

Trio of men allegedly barged into the girl's home before abducting her and forcing her to convert.

Updated 21 Dec, 2017 09:37pm

Minority faith groups should feel their rights are the most secure in Pakistan: Supreme Court

Pakistan's minorities should feel they are given more consideration compared to the average citizen, court says.

Updated 05 Dec, 2017 02:51pm

Three sisters abducted from Mirpurkhas recovered by police

Vijanti Mala, Shelta and Pirya were allegedly abducted by influential people belonging to the area, police said.

Published 23 Jun, 2017 01:14pm

'Forced' conversion: I want to live with my husband, Ravita says in SHC

Court sends Ravita to Darul Aman till next hearing.

Updated 22 Jun, 2017 08:38pm

'Forced conversion': Police told to produce Ravita in Sindh High Court on June 22

According to family, Ravita was forcibly converted and married off to a Muslim man.

Updated 21 Jun, 2017 07:59am

Protests over controversial conversion of Hindu woman continue

KARACHI: Hindus held demonstrations in several cities and towns of the interior of Sindh on Sunday in their ...

Updated 21 Jun, 2017 05:00pm

'Forced conversion' of minor creates uproar in Thar's Hindu community

The father of an 'abducted' girl has alleged that influential members of the Syed community kidnapped her daughter.

Updated 21 Jun, 2017 05:00pm

Hindu girl allegedly 'kidnapped' by influential villagers in Thar

Parents express fear that their 16-year-old daughter might be forced to marry a man from an influential community.

Updated 21 Jun, 2017 05:00pm

Violence erupts in Hub as police refuse to hand Hindu man suspected of blasphemy over to enraged mob

FIR registered against Hindu man suspected of sharing allegedly blasphemous content over WhatsApp.

Updated 21 Jun, 2017 01:11pm