….as we enter the last months of 2021, we are asking readers like you to help us keep UCA News free.įor the last 40 years, UCA News has remained the most trusted and independent Catholic news and information service from Asia. 28 press conference in Islamabad, the Peoples' Commission for Minorities’ Rights and Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) expressed utter dismay at the reduction in religious freedom relating to child marriages and forced conversions.Īccording to the CSJ, the highest incidents of forced conversions (52 percent) were reported in Punjab, followed by 44 percent in Sindh.
A day later, Lahore High Court ruled that mental capacity outweighs age in child religious conversion cases.Īddressing a Sept. Last week the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony rejected a bill that proposed regulations on conversions to Islam. Exploitation of vulnerable minorities shouldn’t be equated with opposition to Islam,” he told UCA News. Nobody is demanding a law against Islam our struggle is against pedophiles using religion as their shelter for criminal activities. “Clearly he is trying to save his Islamic vote bank. No two ways about it,” it stated in a Facebook post.Ĭamillian Father Mushtaq Anjum even described Khan as "a clean-shaven Taliban." Exploitation of vulnerable minorities shouldn’t be equated with opposition to Islam The state must protect the rights of religious minorities effective legislation against forced conversions is pivotal. “So it is OK for women to be battered and tortured, and it is also OK for underage non-Muslim girls to be forcefully converted to Islam? The prime minister needs to realize that all are not Muslims in Pakistan. The meat was for Bushra Bibi’s two jinns, the article had stated.Donate to UCA News with a small contribution of your choiceĬhurch leaders and rights groups including the Cecil and Iris Chaudhry Foundation, a Lahore-based Catholic NGO, released a statement on Sept.
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In an article in Vanity Fair, a senior Pakistani media person was quoted as saying that Imran Khan had consulted Bushra Bibi for spiritual guidance to become PM and he used to give her two vats full of cooked meat as fees. Her family from the Wattoo clan in Pakistan’s Pakpattan are the worshippers of the ‘Baba Farid’ shrine n Pakpattan. Bushra Bibi is known as ‘Pinky Peerni’, a living saint-woman with special powers. It is notable here that supernatural claims and rumours about Bushra Bibi are quite common in Pakistan. While the doctors were initially shocked, they later informed her about the care given to them. She then suddenly inquired about the drug addicts. Bushra Bibi visited every ward of the mental health facility. Local people of Lahore often refer to this mental health facility as ‘pagalkhana’. When she asked where drug addicts are kept in the facility even doctors were left surprised as per media reports. She had insisted special care be given to rehabilitation of drug addicts and elderly people with illness. She was visiting the Punjab Institute of Mental Health Asylum where she inquired about the care given to patients. Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s wife Bushra Bibi last month visited mental health facility and asked the medical professionals present there about where they keep drug addicts.
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