ICC Note:
In a recently released report regarding the persecution of Christians worldwide, Pakistan was ranked the world’s 4th worst persecutor of Christians. Only beaten out by North Korea, Somalia, and Afghanistan, Christians in Pakistan endured the most incidents of persecution in 2016. Making up only 1.6% of the country’s population, Christians are widely discriminated against and are often openly persecuted because of their Christian faith. False accusations of blasphemy, forced conversions to Islam, and terrorist attacks on their neighborhoods and places of worship name merely a few of the issues Pakistani Christians endure. 
01/13/2017 Pakistan (Pakistan Christian Post) – The recently released ‘World Watch List 2017′, produced by Open Doors has shown that Pakistan has unfortunately moved up to fourth place for how badly Christians are treated.
In 2015 Pakistan had ranked at number 8 and last year they rose to 6th. Currently, only North Korea, Somalia and Afghanistan, were worse for Christians, but Pakistan is considered to have the most incidents against Christians overall of any of the nations listed.
This gives an idea of the increasing severity of the situation in Pakistan for Christians, and why the UK government should give far more consideration to the reality in both funding aid and dealing with Christian asylum seekers who manage to escape, or who do not want to return because of the threat after studying here and so on. In addition, it shows the reality on the ground is still worsening, despite some tentative and fragile actions by the authorities that are sometimes claimed as small signs of hope.”
‘Movement of Solidarity and Peace’, a Muslim NGO, shocked the world with their estimations of 1000 minority girls being kidnapped every year and forced into Islamic marriage. Sadly their report released on 17th April 2014 estimated 700 of those abducted girls where Christian and aged between 12 and 25, that is almost two a day and the world stays silent.
Christians are thought to make up the majority of bonded labor (modern day slaves) in Pakistan with a figure in excess of a million and 86% of Christians are known to be working as domestic laborers, cleaners and sewage workers, with some government and local government adverts asserting only Christians should apply. 15% of all blasphemy allegations in the country are lodged against Christians despite being only 1.6% of the population and two severe bomb attacks on Christian communities in the last two years, evidences the need for better protection of our vulnerable minority.”
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