By Admin 
Christians are being targeted under Pakistan’s blasphemy laws. This is the situation when only 1.8 percent of the total population in Pakistan is left. Nevertheless, about one-fourth of blasphemy allegations have been leveled against these people.
There is a provision of death penalty in blasphemy laws. In June 2024, 73-year-old Pakistani Christian Lazar was brutally beaten to death on false charges of burning the Quran.
Attacks on Christian houses in Jaranwala in 2023
According to the 2025 World Watch list of Open Doors, girls and women in Pakistan are falling victim to kidnapping, forced marriage, sexual violence and forced conversion. In 2023, attacks on Christian houses and buildings in Jaranwala are promoting the culture of fear. Historical churches have less freedom for worship and other activities. However, they are strictly monitored and many times are attacked by bombs.
According to the report, in the culture of Pakistan, leaving a family member is considered extremely shameful and hence those who convert to religion have to face sharp opposition from their own family and community, including so -called honor killing.
Why Christian is being targeted
The report says that Christians in Pakistan suffer from institutional discrimination and the work which are considered to be low, dirty and derogatory such as sewer cleaning or working on brick kiln, are reserved for Christians. Muslims are encouraged not to accept Christian men in senior positions at the workplace, as Islamic society promotes the outlook of superiority.
Christian Punjab
According to the report, Christians of Muslim background have to bear the brunt of harassment, one from radical Islamic groups that consider them to be religious and secondly from families, friends and neighbors who consider conversion from family and community as a shameful act of betrayal with family and community. Most Christians live in Punjab and this is the region of Pakistan, where the incidents of oppression and discrimination come the most.
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