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Irreligion is present among a minority of mainly old people in Pakistan. [1] [2] [3] Atheists in Pakistan face discrimination, persecution, and prejudice in society.[4] [5] Pakistan is reported by some sources to be among the thirteen countries where atheism can attract capital punishment, but according to the Library of Congress of the United States, "there is no specific statutory law that ...
Pages in category "Pakistani atheists" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Tariq Ali; H.
Similarly, a judge in Pakistan nullified the "free-will" marriage of a Hindu girl, Mehik Kumari, and confirmed that she was underage when she "embraced" Islam and married a Muslim man. Activists had argued that Kumari was abducted and forcibly converted to Islam. [24] Since these events, Pakistan has given over 1 million non-Muslims the right ...
Khawaja Nazimuddin, Pakistan's second Prime Minister, argued against equal rights for all citizens in an Islamic state. [17] However, The Constitution of Pakistan establishes Islam as the state religion, [18] and provides that all citizens have the right to profess, practice and propagate their religion subject to law, public order, and morality. [19]
From Isa Masih, a name of Jesus Christ in the Hindi-language Bible. [12] The term literally means '[person/people] of Jesus' in India and Pakistan , but in the latter country, Isai has been pejoratively used by non-Christians to refer to 'street sweepers' or 'labourers', occupations that have been held by Christian workers of Dalit ancestry. [ 13 ]
Religious discrimination in Pakistan is a serious issue for the human rights situation in modern-day Pakistan. Christians, Hindus, Sikhs, Shias, and Qadiyanis among other religious minorities often face discrimination and at times are even subjected to violence.
In the past around the 1970s, upper and middle-class women in towns in Pakistan would wear burqas over their normal clothes in public. [24] [25] The burqa was the most visible dress in Pakistan. [citation needed] It is typically a tent-like garment worn over the ordinary clothes and is made of white cotton. Many upper-class women wear a two ...
Mulhid (z plural ملحدون mulḥidun and ملاحدۃ malāḥidah) [1] is an Islamic religious term meaning apostate, atheist, infidel or heretic. [2] [3] In pre-Islamic times the term was used in the literal sense of the root l-ḥ-d: "incline, deviate". [2] Its religious meaning is based on the Quranic verses 7:180, 22:25, and 41:40.