“Caste discrimination in Pakistan often involves its non-Muslim population and its Hindu past, and allows Muslims to minimize their own caste differences by projecting discrimination outward.” xhttps://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/opinion/caste-blasphemy-pakistan.html
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As part of the Jinnah Institute’s Open Democracy initiative, ‘A Question of Faith’: A Report on the Status of Religious Minorities in Pakistan’ is a research-based analysis of the same. It documents the deterioration in the political, economic and social status of members of these communities in the context of the rising tide of vigilante violence and
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Clerics from Muslimabad area of Lahore have declared Samina Khalid Ghurki (President Pakistan People’s Party Lahore Wing) and one of her supporters as blasphemers. The clerics protested against Samina and her supporter Haji Nasir outside the Lahore Press Club on Sunday for supporting a Shia cleric, Zulfiqar Naqvi, who had allegedly blasphemed against the Holy
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Jinnah Institute Extremism watch: July 11 – 17. July 11: Targeting of Shias continues in Balochistan In what appears to be a sectarian killing, three people were shot dead by masked gunmen riding motorcycles on Qambrani Road. According to a senior police officer, the victims, two of whom were Shias were on their way home when they
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