Apr 8, 2025
A chilling new report from Human Rights Focus Pakistan (HRFP) reveals a dramatic escalation in the victimization of religious minorities in Pakistan in the first quarter of 2025, with Christians bearing a disproportionate burden of abuse.
International Christian Concern (ICC) condemns this surge, which highlights Pakistan’s entrenched failure to protect its most vulnerable citizens.
The HRFP findings, detailed in reports by ANI News and Pakistan Christian Post, document a horrifying rise in forced conversions, abductions, sexual violence, and murders targeting Christians and other minorities. Blasphemy laws remain a cudgel in the hands of extremists, wielded to justify mob attacks and judicial travesties, while authorities turn a blind eye to the cries of the innocent.
“Pakistan’s latest wave of atrocities against Christians in 2025 is not an aberration — it’s a grotesque culmination of centuries of state-sanctioned brutality and indifference,” ICC President Jeff King said. “This is a nation where Christian girls are stolen from their families, forcibly converted, and married off to their abusers, where a false blasphemy accusation can ignite a lynch mob, and where justice is a privilege reserved for the majority Muslim population. For too long, Pakistan has cloaked its systemic persecution in silence and impunity. The world must wake up to this crisis and hold Islamabad accountable for its shameful record.”
ICC’s own research corroborates HRFP’s findings. As of January 2025, at least 20 Christians languish in Pakistani prisons on blasphemy charges, collectively serving more than 134 years for crimes they did not commit. This is not progress — it’s a regression into a dark age of intolerance, fueled by extremist ideology and a complicit government.
ICC calls on the international community, including the United States and the United Nations, to pressure Pakistan to repeal its draconian blasphemy laws, protect its religious minorities, and prosecute perpetrators of these heinous acts. READ MORE
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SOURCE: International Christian Concern