[PJMedia] The human rights
...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
violations in Pakistain have reached such an alarming rate that the organization Genocide Watch has called for genocide monitoring in Pakistain.
Genocide Watch issued a report on May 8, which stated that Pakistain is now at stage 3 of genocide (discrimination), stage 5 (organization), stage 6 (polarization), and stage 9 (persecution) in terms of abuses against women, religious minorities, and other vulnerable groups. Persecution is the final stage before extermination.
According to the organization, the perpetrators include the Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf
...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem , each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations....
Party, the State Police, and bully boy groups (Pak Taliban
 ...Arabic for students ...
/TTP, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
 ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ...
/LeJ), amongst others.
Targeted groups are religious minorities (Shia, Ahmadiyya, Christians, Buddhists, Hindus), political opposition, women, and gays.
Genocide Watch reported:
Because discrimination against women and minorities is deeply embedded in society, and violence against them is both widespread and tolerated, Genocide Watch considers Pakistain to be at Stage 3: Discrimination and Stage 5: Organization. Deepening divisions along religious, gender, and political lines, reinforced by restrictive laws, censorship, and weak protections, place the country at Stage 6: Polarization. The continued targeting of vulnerable groups through violence, persecution, and displacement further reflects elements of Stage 9: Persecution.
Gregory H Stanton, President of Genocide Watch, developed the 10 stages of genocide, which explain the process that leads to genocide. They are classification, symbolization, discrimination, dehumanization, organization, polarization, preparation, persecution, extermination, and denial.
These stages refer to the developments or circumstances that cause, incite, or bring about the deliberate destruction of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.
Women remain the most severely abused group in the country, according to the report:
Women face the most severe consequences of Pakistain’s structural inequalities in the form of a growing femicide crisis. Gender-based violence remains widespread and includes acid attacks, forced and child marriage, rape, trafficking, forced conversion, and domestic abuse. Hundreds of women are killed annually in so-called "honor killings," often by relatives, over perceived family shame. At least 405 cases were recorded in 2024, but the real figures are likely higher, due to low reporting and weak, inconsistent enforcement. Also in 2024, over 2,000 domestic violence cases and 5,000 accounts of rape were recorded, reinforcing Pakistain’s status as one of the most dangerous countries in the world for women.
Additionally, in September 2025, the Lahore High Court ruled that marriages after puberty are valid under Islamic law, as girl marriage remains widespread in Pakistain, with millions married before 18.
Pakistain also ranked last in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index, and it faces a massive education crisis, with more than 21 million children reportedly out of school due to poverty, social pressures, child labor, and discrimination.
Religious minorities also remain deeply vulnerable. Blasphemy laws, combined with weak enforcement, expose Ahmadis, Christians, and Hindus to discrimination, violence, and social exclusion.
Non-Moslems in Pakistain survive in a tyrannical environment. Christians comprise just 1.8% of the population and are particularly marginalized. 96% of the population is Moslem, of which the majority follow the Sunni tradition.
As a minority in Pakistain, Christians are exposed to many challenges, which range from everyday discrimination to threats of deadly violence.
On May 27, EWTN News reported that the son of a Pak Christian man was murdered by a mob over blasphemy
...the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity, or sacred objects, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable. Some religions consider it to be a crime. In Pakistain you can commit blasphemy by looking cross-eyed at a Koran...
allegations in 2024. His family says that they have received neither compensation nor justice:
As Moslems across Pakistain celebrate Eid al-Adha
...a major Moslem holiday, marked by animal sacrifice and ritual rioting...
, Sultan Gill is quietly preparing for the death anniversary of his father, who died after a violent mostly peaceful mob attack over allegations of blasphemy in 2024.
"Nearly 2,000 people attacked Gillʼs family in Sargodha, in northern Punjab
...1. Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2. A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3. A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots
....
province, on May 25, 2024, after allegations emerged that his father, Nazir (Lazar) Masih, had desecrated pages of the Koran. EWTN News covered the attack at the time.
The mob ransacked the familyʼs home and shoe factory in Mujahid Colony and later set the business on fire after a mosque announcement reportedly amplified the accusations.
Police managed to evacuate nine members of the family, but Masih was caught by the crowd and beaten with stones, bricks, and sticks. The 74-year-old departed this vale of tears on the night of June 2—3, 2024.
Nearly two years later, the family says it is still waiting for justice and compensation for the destruction of their property, which remains abandoned after they fled Sargodha.
'Our wounds became fresh during Eid. The cruelty cannot be described in words,' Gill told EWTN News.
'The confidence is gone. We cannot move around or talk freely. Two of my children had to discontinue their education and start working to support the family in a new city and help pay house rent,' he said.
Masih and his family are not the only victims. Pakistain’s blasphemy laws are increasingly used to intimidate Christians and other religious minorities. The laws are often exploited to target Christians during unrelated feuds (such as land disputes). Even an accusation can provoke mob violence against victims, their families, and the wider Christian community — just like what happened to Masih's family in 2024.
Religious freedom in the country further deteriorated in 2025 for minority groups, with Hindus, Shi’a and Ahmadi Moslems continuing to experience prosecutions for blasphemy whilst also suffering violence at the hands of mobs as well as the police.
At the same time, journalists, activists, and academics face censorship, violence, threats, arrests, and murder, all perpetrated by the Pak government and contributing to growing self-censorship and restricted public discourse, reports Genocide Watch.
Security challenges further complicate Pakistain’s human rights, as deadly attacks were carried out by holy warrior groups in 2025 and 2026, including Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain, the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
of Khorasan Province, al-Qaeda, and the Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
Liberation Army.
Regional instability leads to the worsening of human rights conditions... Escalating fighting between Pakistain and Afghanistan has caused serious human rights violations. In 2024, Pakistain deported 315,100 undocumented Afghan refugees, with thousands arrested amid harassment and coercion.
The report added that homosexual individuals and transgender individuals are also at a heightened risk of police abuse, discrimination, and violence.
"Genocide never just happens," says Holocaust Memorial Day Trust (HMDT). "There is always a set of circumstances which occur or which are created to build the climate in which genocide can take place."
The circumstances under which women, religious minorities, political dissidents and other vulnerable communities demonstrate that a genocide is likely to occur in Pakistain if precautions are not taken by the international community.
In its report, Genocide Watch shares recommendations for preventing the plight of these communities from worsening.
The organization recommends that the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
should use GSP+ review procedures to press Pakistain on narrowly implemented reforms in freedom of expression, religious freedom, and women’s rights. The United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
High Commissioner for Human Rights should campaign to consider Pakistain a country of special concern because of the country’s concerning record of human rights abuses against ethnic and religious minorities. The United States, China, and the United Kingdom should urge and incentivize the country to combat honor killings and implement structural and systemic changes that would protect the lives and futures of women.
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