Rohan Giri In March 2026, a court in Pakistan closed the file on a thirteen-year-old girl from Lahore and, in doing so, opened a much older wound that the country has never quite managed to heal. Maria Shahbaz, a Christian by birth, had been abducted, coerced into converting to Islam, and married off to the … Continue reading Pakistan’s Vanishing Minorities: Maria Shahbaz Case
Debt bondage in Sindh is systemic, inter-generational and structurally embedded. Legal prohibitions and international commitments notwithstanding, serious gaps in enforcement and socioeconomic inequalities sustain a cycle of exploitation. Without coordinated, evidence-based and politically accountable reform, millions of minorities, women and children remain at risk of continued slavery. Debt BondageDownload
Baluchistan & Punjab in Pakistan also saw unprecedented rise in abductions, rapes, forced conversions, fake marriages & violence against minorities. Political, religious leadership & military are party to such vandalism. research-brief_sindhDownload
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