Pakistani Christians face increasing problems with job discrimination

Christians in Pakistan face many problems due to job discrimination.

In the past, many Christians living in Muslim-majority countries have been persecuted and persecuted by the government and extremist Muslim people, to the point that in many cases they are even deprived of the most basic rights of citizenship, which are education and employment.

In Iran, many Christian citizens, including Armenian Christians and Christians who converted from Islam to Christianity, have always been subject to freedom and persecution, and in some cases have been sentenced to arrest, torture, imprisonment, and even execution. This issue is not unique to Iran, but in all Muslim countries, especially extremist Muslims, we are witnessing a greater intensity of persecution of Christian citizens.

Reports from Pakistan, an Islamic country with a Muslim population, indicate extreme poverty among the Christian community in the country. Christians in this country constitute the poorest segment of Pakistani society and are often discriminated against by the government.

The majority of the Christian community in Pakistan is employed in the lowest level of employment and these people have no hope of growth and success in the future due to discrimination in many of their rights. Most Christians in this country are engaged in cleaning in health services, which is considered a severe social stigma in Pakistan.

According to published reports, most of the job advertisements published by government agencies are for simple cleaning jobs for non-Muslims, with a local NGO called the Law and Justice Center identifying around 300 such advertisements.

According to the National High Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Christians make up less than two percent of Pakistan's population, but over 80 percent of workers in the sectors related to garbage collection, sewer cleaning, street sweeping, and sanitation are Christian citizens.

The discrimination against Christians that is institutionalized in this Islamic country is so rampant that for Christmas this year, many cleaning workers not only failed to receive their salaries for the past three months, but were also forced to take out loans to cover living expenses and meet their family's needs.