Christian leaders in Pakistan have demanded the removal of Federal Minister for Religious Affairs Mufti Abdul Shakoor for spiritual hatred within the identify of interfaith concord.  On January 31, Shakoor attended a seminar in Islamabad to debate the difficulty of compelled conversions in Pakistan.

According to the Associated Press of Pakistan, he addressed a one-day seminar titled “Religion Change, Issues, Discussions and Reality” at an area resort.  Some newly transformed Muslims (from Christianity to Islam) have been invited to offer speeches on the difficulty of change of faith within the ceremony, in a option to make them communicate in opposition to their earlier faith i.e. Christianity and Hinduism, and their unhealthy practices.

To this, some Christians objected and boycotted the ceremony.
They additional mentioned that the occasion was organised simply to create hatred in opposition to minorities and their spiritual practices. Notably, Pakistan makes use of the blasphemy regulation to persecute Christians with the assistance of state and non-state actors to focus on minorities.

Blasphemy is pinned on them with the arrogance that no choose would allow them to off the hook, with crowds demanding demise outdoors his court docket.

Christians in Pakistan have been dealing with systematic persecution as not solely their church buildings are being focused but additionally ladies who’re being kidnapped and forcibly transformed to Islam.
Christians make up lower than two per cent of the inhabitants in Pakistan. Their numbers are reducing as many of them are migrating to different international locations for their security.

Christians proceed to endure focused violence and different abuses, together with land-grabbing in rural areas, abductions and compelled conversion, and the vandalisation of properties and church buildings.

Earlier, on December 28, 2022, a forty-year-old Hindu lady named Daya Bhel was gang-raped and beheaded. Her pores and skin was additionally peeled off by a pointy weapon utilized by murderous savages in an agricultural subject in Sinjhoro Village in Sindh, Pakistan. The lady is survived by 4 youngsters.

On January 30, Narain Das Bheel, Founder and Chief Organiser of the Hindu Organisation of Sindh posted a video on the social media platform Twitter the place Sikhs of Jacobabad, Sindh, Pakistan, may very well be heard narrating the incidents of atrocities they’re dealing with.

The Sikh particular person, recognized as Harish Singh, was allegedly abused and hackled by the Muslim neighborhood. In the video, Harish Singh mentioned that the incident happened when he was selecting up his daughters from college. He was hackled and threatened to kill. The Muslim attackers additionally threatened to kill his daughters.

Harish Singh additionally mentioned that his daughters are afraid and refuse to go to high school. He has urged the locals to face up and save him from the atrocities. It is to be famous that Islamic extremists in Pakistan have made it tough for minorities to stay regular life. In 2017, Sikhs have been excluded from the census in Pakistan. This was the primary time the minority group was not included within the census.

The Islamic Republic of Pakistan is well-known for the persecution of spiritual minorities. Many of them have acknowledged that they’re being handled as second-class residents in Pakistan. Hindus, Sikhs and Christians in Pakistan have additionally been targets of sexual harassment, and their spiritual practises and festivals have been abused and mocked a number of instances. They are being taught the Islamic curriculum by drive, they usually say that it’s obligatory for them.

Their locations of worship have been destroyed. Several Muslims set hearth to temples and vandalised the idols of Hindu deities on the temple premises. Minorities have been targets of spiritual violence and compelled conversions for a very long time now within the Islamic nation.Notably, Systemic persecution of minorities, together with Christians, Ahmadiya, Sikhs, and Hindus, by way of Draconian blasphemy legal guidelines, compelled conversions and marriages, and extrajudicial killings have turn out to be a daily phenomenon in Pakistan. Attacks on holy and historic websites of spiritual minorities in Pakistan can also be a significant difficulty.