Abstract
Pakistan is the only country in the world carved painfully out of India on the basis of its population’s Muslim identity. Despite its population’s diverse ethnic and religious affiliation, the state formation in Pakistan was such that it always depended on the reactionary Islamist forces in the country that made the system exclusively for the majority whereas the minorities – particularly the Christian minority – of the country were institutionally marginalized and suppressed, resulting in the constraint of civil liberties and minority rights. The monolithic image of the country as an Islamic state and the identity of its populations as Muslims explain the structural violence against the Christian and other minorities and the present crisis of human rights violations in the country.

Muhammad Riaz,, M. Wakil Khan,. (2015) Structural Violence and Christian Minority in Pakistan: The Monolithic Image to be Blame, The Dialogue, Volume 10, Issue 4.
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