Arzoo Freed at Last -With Conditions December 2021, Pakistan. Arzoo Raja, a 13-year-old Christian girl, was abducted, raped, forcibly married and converted to Islam. She was sent to a shelter house until a court decision as to whether she should go with her abductor Ali Azhar, or with her parents. After many postponed court hearings...
On October 25, 2021, the United Nations released a study indicating that Afghanistan is fast becoming the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, surpassing the needs in Ethiopia, South Sudan, Syria and Yemen. According to the World Food Program 22.8 million people could face acute hunger this winter, with 8.7 million of these at emergency levels.Forty years...
Important Update!June 23, 2023: Mummand Boota, the rapist of Aliza has been sentenced to life imprisonment by Justice Ghazala Yasmine of local court. Eight-year-old Christian Girl Aliza Raped Aliza is eight years old. Her father, Younis Masih, is a day-labourer, paid day by day to meet household needs. Aliza’s father has five children–one boy and...
Two Christian Brothers Murdered by Muslim Neighbors in Okara City, Pakistan According to details of the First Investigation Report lodged by Indriyas Masih, Haroon Masih and Yaqoob Masih cultivate land as tenants, a common practice in Pakistan as many don’t own their own land....
Tahira is the mother of Mehik, a minor girl 13 year old who was abducted, raped, and forcefully converted by Shahid Ali. With the day & night struggle of her parents Tahir & Bashir, Mehik was recovered after a few months. She later gave birth to a baby girl named Zarish. She lives with her...
Statistics Regarding Victims of Blasphemy Laws (1987-2021)Presentation by the lawyer Akmal Bhatti, director of the Minorities Alliance Pakistan (MAP) To the press conference “Is Suspension of Pakistan’s GSP+ Status Overdue?” at the Press Club Brussels, hosted by Human Rights Without Frontiers (HRWF) Brussels, 9 September 2021PAKISTAN – From 1987 to August of 2021, 1,865 people...
From New York To Pakistan, Brothers Fight Blasphemy Accusation A flyer outside Pakistan’s Ministry of Religious Affairs in Islamabad explains that the punishment for blasphemy is beheading. Creative Commons photo.Pakistani Christians are often relegated to undesirable jobs such as manual sewage cleaning, but Nadeem Samson’s small business selling herbal medicines was doing so well in 2016...
CAPC Response to COVID-19 in PakistanLike other countries, Pakistan also became a victim of Covid-19 and already poor people became the worst victims of this pandemic. Pakistan is already placed among the 25th poorest countries in the world. The poverty rate has increased in Pakistan from 34% to 39%. Over 64% of the population of...
Arzoo – Another Chapter in the Saga Karachi Pakistan: Arzoo’s hearing was fixed for 9am, Monday September 13, 2021, and Canadian Aid to Persecuted Christians (CAPC)representatives were closely in touch with her father Raja Lal and mother Rita. The family was disguised and present in the court parking lot, waiting in a car from 8.30 am...
