With regard to Pakistan's law, minorities are accorded their fundamental freedoms. The existing constitution of 1973 does not discriminate against the minorities of Pakistan well below Muslims. As per Islam, that is at the core of Pakistani law, minorities have been accorded freedom, property rights, cultural rights, social rights and fundamental rights. This is why Pakistan's constitution protects minorities in all possible ways.
But does a law punish those who discriminate between minorities? Are the minorities peacefully intact? Can people freely pursue their religion and create their houses of worship? Is Pakistan free from the filthy "racist" concept?
The reply is, no. Each country on this earth is following this disgusting habit. In Pakistan also there are extremism, conditions such as chronic and ignorant people that follow the same route when Muslims are discriminated against, insulted and murdered for being followers of Islam. Racism is practiced throughout its lesser form, although not very dramatically or on a wider level in many areas.
There are numerous levels of racism in Pakistan, including racial, religious, sectarian, tribal, regional and ethnic prejudices because of Pakistan's wide diversity. As a result, we see various examples in which many weddings are not made because of the difference in caste and faith, when such a provision does not even exist in Islamic law. In addition, for all dark individuals out there, who never had any option in their skin colour, the entire debacle about "becoming fairer" is scary.
So how is this issue still there in 2020, and what kind of pleasure do individuals have from humiliating dark skin boys or girls? People degrade their maids and lower staff if we speak of the majority of Pakistan, i.e. Muslims, because they pay them to go through it. They think they have purchased the person and not their services all because they invest. In Pakistan, such troubling thoughts exist on a greater scale, yet many people do not recognize this as racism. Why not? Why not?
Will it be labeled racism only when a white person kills a black person by use of a fake note? It's certainly an odd crime that cannot be overlooked, but we cannot keep an eye on the fact that racism persists in milder, delicate forms, playing with others and considered as socially inappropriate or unacceptable..
If there is such a problem mostly among Islamic families, what can we say about Pakistan's minorities? Christians who make up only 2% of Pakistan's population are mostly considered sweepers or maids. In the previous two years, Hindus, who make up approximately 1.6 per cent of the population, have suffered difficult times. Innumerable Hindu girls had to convert to Islam and married Muslim men. Some of the occurrences were in the media, but what about the cold cases? Does anyone have any clue?
Racism is both a historic problem and a contemporary one — not only in Pakistan but globally. Sometimes it arrives in a subtle form, sometimes in the shape of death. We can only hope that this miserable occurrence will come to an end in the future and one day we will eventually make harmony with the other individuals' skins, races and faiths.