Decades ago, converts thought the country would be a refuge from the caste system. Today, they are subject to discrimination, including stricter blasphemy laws. Two Christian Pakistani teenagers ...

In Pakistan’s northwest city of Peshawar, as many as 80% of Christians are sanitation workers. According to the 2022 census, 3.27% of urban Pakistanis living in Punjab province are Christian.

Some Scheduled Caste members do reach parliament, says Mangla Sharma, a member of the coordination committee of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan. Sharma was the party’s member in the Sindh ...

The caste system is a tiered socioeconomic system that consigns people to a particular group, or caste. In Hinduism, this system is part of its religious worldview. People are born into a ...