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Irreligion in Pakistan

Irreligion is present among a minority of mainly young people in Pakistan.[1][2][3] Atheists in Pakistan face discrimination, persecution, and prejudice in society.[4][5] Pakistan is reported by some sources to be among the thirteen countries where atheism can attract capital punishment, but according to the Library of Congress of the United States, "there is no specific statutory law that criminalizes apostasy in Pakistan."[6][7] On the other hand, the Pakistani government can impose the death penalty for blasphemy.[8]

Pakistani blogger Ayaz Nizami,[9] the Vice President of Atheist & Agnostic Alliance Pakistan. and founder of the website realisticapproach.org, an Urdu website about atheism,[10] is currently detained under the charges of blasphemy and could face the death penalty.[11][12] This happened shortly after former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif supported a crackdown on blasphemous material posted on social media and described blasphemy as an "unpardonable offence" in March 2017.[13][14]

Many atheists in Pakistan have been lynched and imprisoned over unsubstantiated allegations of blasphemy. When the state initiated a full-fledged crackdown on atheism starting 2017, it has become worse with secular bloggers being kidnapped and the government running advertisements urging people to identify blasphemers among them and the highest judges declaring such people to be terrorists.[15]

  1. ^ "Pakistani youths turning into atheists". IBN Live. Archived from the original on 2010-09-11. Retrieved 2012-07-01.
  2. ^ "Global Index of Religiosity and Atheism" (PDF). Gallup. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-05-24. Retrieved 2012-09-02.
  3. ^ "The hardest part about being faithless". Pakistan Today. Retrieved 2014-02-09.
  4. ^ "What do Pakistani atheists mean for Pakistan?". The Express Tribune. Retrieved 2012-08-07.
  5. ^ "Being Pakistani and atheist a dangerous combo, but some ready to brave it". Pakistan Today. Retrieved 2012-07-01.
  6. ^ Fisher, Max (10 Dec 2012). "The seven countries where the state can execute you for being atheist". The Washington Post. Retrieved 16 December 2012. Though that list includes some dictatorships, the country that appears to most frequently condemn atheists to death for their beliefs is actually a democracy, if a frail one: Pakistan. Others include Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan, Sudan, the West African state of Mauritania, and the Maldives, an island nation in the Indian Ocean.
  7. ^ "Laws Criminalizing Apostasy". Library of Congress. Retrieved 28 May 2016.
  8. ^ "There Are 13 Countries Where Atheism Is Punishable by Death". The Atlantic. 10 December 2013.
  9. ^ "جراتِ تحقیق - ہمتِ کفر ملے جراتِ تحقیق ملے". Archived from the original on 2015-08-29.
  10. ^ "Atheist & Agnostic Alliance Pakistan".
  11. ^ "Blasphemy crackdown: FIA arrests 2 suspects from Karachi". 24 March 2017.
  12. ^ "42 Christians told 'to convert to Islam or face death penalty'". Independent.co.uk. 31 March 2017.
  13. ^ "Pakistan asks Facebook to help fight blasphemy". BBC. 17 March 2017. Retrieved 19 April 2017.
  14. ^ "Pakistani student accused of blasphemy beaten to death on campus". Reuters. 13 April 2017. Retrieved 15 April 2017.
  15. ^ Shahid, Kunwar Khuldune (11 June 2020). "Pakistan's forced conversions shame Imran Khan". The Spectator. Retrieved 3 September 2020.

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