The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) states: “Religious freedom conditions across Pakistan continue to trend negatively. The systematic enforcement of blasphemy and anti-Ahmadiyya laws, and authorities’ failure to address forced conversions of religious minorities—including Hindus, Christians, and Sikhs—to Islam, severely restrict freedom of religion or belief.”
“Christian Father, 29, Gunned Down by Muslims in Pakistan,” Morning Star News, July 15, 2024:
LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – A Catholic father of four children was gunned down by Muslim neighbors last week after he objected to their harassment of Christians in the area, his family said. Marshall Masih of the Patiala House area in Lahore was the sole breadwinner for his elderly parents, wife and four children – the oldest 10, the youngest 18 months old. He was 29. His sister Goshi Yaqoob, 33, said his family was asleep at 4:25 a.m. Wednesday (July 10) when four armed Muslims led by Muhammad Shani and Azam Ali entered their house from the rooftop after cutting the iron grill. “The assailants broke the door of my brother’s bedroom on the first floor of the house and held him and his family hostage on gunpoint,” Yaqoob told Christian Daily International-Morning Star News. “They then opened indiscriminate fire on him, riddling his body with 16 bullets in the presence of his wife and minor children.”… Christians held a protest outside the office of the Punjab Province chief minister the same day demanding swift justice. “But our pleas have fallen on deaf ears, and so far none of the accused murderers have been arrested,” she said….