Introduction
people (as of 2022); an amalgamation of various cultures,
ethnicities, languages, religions, sects and sub-sects and is home t
o nearly 3% Pakistanis belonging to the Religious Minorities. Pakistan falls under 10/40 Window; the Christian population is approximately 1.5% of the total population of the country. 
Pakistan extends along either side of the historic Indus River, following its course from the mountain valleys of the Himalayas down to the Arabian Sea. Bordering on India, China, Afghanistan and Iran, it is strategically located astride the ancient trade routes between Asia and Europe. Pakistan’s 796,095 square kilometers of territory includes a wide variety of landscapes, from arid deserts to lush, green valleys to stark mountain peaks.
Geographically, Pakistan can be divided into five provinces namely Punjab, Sindh, Baluchistan, Khyber Pakhtun Kwa (KPK) and Gilgit-Baltistan (GB).
The Constitution of Pakistan establishes Islam as the state religion, and provides all its citizens the right to profess, practice and propagate their religion subject to law, public order, and morality. The Constitution limits the political rights of Pakistan’s non-Muslims, and only allows Muslims to hold the prestigious offices of the President and the Prime Minister, any significant positions in the Judiciary, the Armed Forces or other esteemed institutions.
Pakistan suffers from extreme discrimination on the basis of religion and Christians are openly discriminated against. Churches are attacked and innocent lives are ruthlessly wasted; Christian girls are subjected to abduction and forced conversions; Christian families are subjugated, dominated upon and abused by their employers even so that on many an occasion their women were paraded naked when the landlord desired to further insult his subjects; many Christian families are suffering in bonded labor, under enormously fictitious debts that cannot be traced. Christians are considered second-class citizens and are denied quality education for their children, decent housing and living conditions and access to loans. Christians in Pakistan experience undue institutionalized discrimination, whereby occupations seen as low, dirty and derogatory are officially reserved for Christians and they are usually shunned from acquiring jobs that pay a respectable salary.
The discriminatory laws in Pakistan are a mine field for Christians where they are forever fearful of being falsely persecuted and even unjustly awarded the death penalty. Willful conversion to Christianity from Islam is not welcomed by radical Islamists.
