(11 Aug 2024)
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Karachi, Pakistan – 11 August 2024
1. Various of people dancing
2. Various of people playing instruments
3. Person dancing
4. Various of people watching
5. Placard reading (Urdu) “I go to school and get kidnapped, should I not pursue education?”
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Sheema Kermani, march organiser:
“What we see in Pakistan today is that minorities do not get equal rights. They are not taken as equal citizens. There is a lot of discrimination. At present, unfortunately, there is a lot of violence against them, not just Christians, Hindus also. There’s forced conversions of Hindu girls. Then we see their houses of worship are sometimes brought down, sometimes destroyed, put on fire.”
7. Various of actors onstage
8. Various of people watching
9. Various of banner
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Sijal Shafique, participant:
“If a person from the Christian community or Hindu community is accused, you see that whole villages, whole towns are burned, our shops are burned, our churches are burned, our temples are burned, after that because of that one person that is blamed or accused of something and that thing is not even true in 99 percent of the cases. Whole villages are burned, our bibles are desecrated, our churches are desecrated.”
11. Various of people stamping on an effigy
12. Various of security
STORYLINE:
People from different religious communities in Pakistan joined together to participate in a Minority Rights March in Karachi on Sunday.
They were calling for religious minorities to be treated as equal citizens in Pakistan.
“What we see in Pakistan today is that minorities do not get equal rights," said Sheema Kermani, the organiser of the march.
"At present, unfortunately, there is a lot of violence against them, not just Christians, Hindus also,” she added.
Some of the attendees brought placards calling for change while others danced and played instruments, in what looked to be a relatively peaceful march.
AP video shot by Muhammad Farooq
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