Religious Minorities in Pakistan

The Gojra Tax of July 30, 2009, is quiet down fresh in the minds of umpteen minorities; perhaps Christians about of all. hysteria was carried out against them after the allegations of defiling the set apart Quran were made; cardinal Christian houses were burned and looted, and most of them had to flee from their houses. CDN (March 9) reported that ranking(prenominal) district officials, in Muzaffargarh bea, support Muslim land grabbers, who destroy one hundred and fifty Christian graves and destruct their carvings. The discriminatory activities are non limited to religious issues only, and kind of prevail in matters such(prenominal) as infrastructure and education. fit to Atif Iqbal, Islamabad, a new church building is to be constructed in vault of heaven eight, which is contributed to Christians, free of cost. The political relation neglects minority issues due to which their standard of aliment is affected badly. This factor leads to unemployment and affix in cri me rates, including drugs and smuggling.\nAs reported by Mansoor Malik in the article No popular Schools for One Million Souls create in The News on December 25,2010, illiteracy causes closing off and discrimination among the Christians. Children doing odd jobs or playing on streets is observed as non commitment to the political sympathies towards them. The locals are eager that government should provide them with at least primary schools for boys. JSDC Chairperson, Dr. Yasmin Rashid, points out the importunity to build public sphere schools for minorities so that prosperity and literacy prevails among them. Mackey. M (2006) mentions in her article that Unicef has launched a campaign to support the locals to cause back, out-of-school-children in twenty selected barbarian metro police.\nThere are hardly any wellness facilities provided to the minorities. Youhanabad contains no hospitals or wellness clinic; sewerage and load shake off issues have added to the problems of the pe ople who equal on the narrow streets with robust terra...