There are a lot of difficulties that I can share that our minorities are experiencing. It is not that something is just currently happening, minorities have been facing discrimination for centuries. Growing up as a Pakistani Christian was not an easy task. I remember when I started my school, my Muslim friends used to tell me that my skin tone is not similar to Christian people because they thought that Christian’s have darker skin in Pakistan, so they encouraged me to convert my religion and become a Muslim. Sometimes they used to tell me that we cannot become your friend because our family restricted us, so that you cannot eat with and become a friend of “these people”. This was very painful. How can you fill your kids with these kinds of grudges? But we never heard anything like that in our household, even though a majority of Pakistanis treated minorities so badly. Our parents taught us about Love because it was the part of our religious teaching. The majority did not even teach their children about humanity. If they taught their children about humanity, it might be possibly be easy for them to accept minorities and they can live respecting any kind of religion.

 

Minorities cannot get good jobs because in our passports it mentions that we are minorities. How can minorities grow up when the government has no favor and justice for them? Blasphemy laws are just used to take advantage and take revenge against minorities. Because they know that it’s a religious law, the government cannot do anything: whatever people want to do they can do. Muslims in Pakistan are misusing blasphemy laws. Thousands of people lost their identity due to blasphemy laws they were not aware of. Suddenly their houses will be destroyed and burnt. Thousands of people lost their Loved Ones. Fear of death in kids of minorities is the reason for lack of confidence, lack of growth. Minorities think thousands of times before they speak.Our children have no freedom. From childhood until older age minority faces fear of death. Every human has the right to live their lives as they want to live, with peace, joy, happiness, and freedom.

You cannot force someone to change their religious beliefs. Some changes can help to support minorities in Pakistan – if the majority and Pakistani government will give them equal opportunity, equal rights, equal respect because they are also a part of the Country.