Abstract

Pakistan is an Islamic republic as declared the equal rights to every citizen of Pakistan. In Pakistan lot of marginalized groups neglected by the society as they are religious minorities, transgender, special persons etc. In the diverts groups in a country are living and having a lot of issues in toleration of each other identity and that’s why the minorities are considered as marginalized. In all constitutions as 1956, 1962 and 1973 that everywhere minorities have mentioned with equal rights especially the constitution of 1973. As article 20 states that every Pakistani citizen have liberty to establish their religious institutions and practice their own religion. With all these equal rights mentioned in constitution the country has lack of implementation of state policies. The purpose of the research is to explore the realities about the Minorities rights and dealing with them by society. The constitution of 1973 provides the guarantee of equal rights of citizen, but some marginalized groups suppressed by the society. The focus of this research work is to elucidate minorities rights focused on Christian Minority mechanism in Punjab and to explore the difference between theory and practice. The data has been collected from primary and secondary sources. The primary data has been collected through questionnaire. The data was collected from 800 Christian minority people from Punjab. After analysis of data it has come to know that there is a difference in theory and its implications. The government should more focus on minorities rights mechanism and mindset of people should be change towards protection of minorities rights.

Highlights

  • Human Rights is considered a very vast subject to discuss

  • Human rights are like a family of different approaches like Civil Rights, Liberties and other natural and socio-political rights and privileges that belongs to man

  • The topic human rights come through ages to ages as from the writings of ancient Greek philosophers as Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle etc

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Introduction

Human Rights is considered a very vast subject to discuss. It describes in different time in the world history in different perspective. The rights taken further toward the class distinction that becomes the cause of groupings of people to protect their rights emerge the shape of groupings like big and small. Under this group distinction the people divided themselves through identities that differ from each other. With this distinction and different identities these groups considered as majorities and minorities

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