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How does Pakistani media report on religious minorities?

Riaz Sohail

 In Pakistan, the media portrays religious minorities not as stable but as a controversial group, a political issue and oppressed, yet they number in the millions and deserve coverage even outside the minority.

 The Institute for Research, Advocacy and Development has conducted a media research review in a report titled 'How Pakistani Media Reports Religious Minorities?', Which also found that news coverage of religious minorities  Their position and opinion are mostly not included.

 The media fails to reach out to minority representatives and therefore plays a role in suppressing them.

Shrinking minority population:

 According to the 2017 National Census of Pakistan, the total population of the country is over 207.6 million, of which 96.47% are Muslims and 3.53% are religious minorities.

 According to the 1998 census, the Muslim population was 96.28 percent while the religious minorities were 3.72 percent. Thus, the number of religious minorities has decreased by 0.19 percent during the two censuses.

 According to the report, the reason for the decline in the minority population has not been officially stated, nor has the media reported any investigations.

 According to the census, Hindu minorities are the largest religious minorities, followed by Christians, Ahmadis and Scheduled Castes. Other minorities include Sikhs, Baha'is, Zoroastrians, Parsis, Kailash and Jews.

Representation of minorities in the media:

 According to unofficial figures from various media organizations, Pakistani media outlets employ 2.5 million people, including 20,000 journalists.  Of the 20,000 journalists, 270 or 1.3 percent belong to religious minorities.

According to the State Media and Regulatory Authority, there are a total of 96 TV channels in Pakistan, of which 37 are news and current affairs channels and 14 of them are broadcast in local languages.

 Similarly, there are 143 FM radios, 137 daily, 13 weekly, 2 fortnightly and 45 monthly magazines.  According to unofficial figures, there are 160 million TV viewers, 80 million FM listeners and 7 million print media circulators.

 The coverage of 12 different organizations was monitored for this analytical report and the fact that newspapers published the most news and pictures about religious minorities was completely ignored by the radio.  The study also found that even the most hostile news of minorities was published in newspapers.

Blasphemy is a big news item:

 The most talked about topic in the media regarding minorities was blasphemy, which highlighted the Christian community, but TV and radio did not report on blasphemy.

 Another topic of news regarding religious minorities was their heritage, especially culture and archaeology.  In addition, some news of the seizure of property of Hindu and Ahmadi communities and festivals of religious minorities were also broadcast and published.

 Adnan Rehmat, a researcher at the Institute for Research, Advocacy and Development and a journalist, says that blasphemy is more against Muslims in numerical terms, but when it comes to minorities, there is a tough stance.

 "When there is no reporting on minorities and sometimes there is, there is a presumption of assumption and it feels as if the Christian and Hindu communities have nothing but blasphemy."

 Of the 53 news items monitored in the study, 20 were about the Hindu community, followed by the Christian community and the Sikhs, two from the Kailash community and one each from the Ahmadi, Ismaili and Shia communities.  ۔

 Dr. Tauseef Ahmed, former head of the Department of Mass Communication at the Federal Urdu University, says that the issue of forced conversion of the Hindu and Christian communities in Sindh and Punjab is not even discussed by the Urdu media and especially the TV channels.  Discrimination, which is constitutional, legal and traditional, is also not debated because not all citizens have equal rights in the constitution and if anyone demands it, it is not highlighted

Ideological problem or lack of professionalism:

 Dr. Tauseef Ahmed, former head of the Department of Mass Communication at the Federal Urdu University, says that the basic problem is ideological, because the curriculum that people have read from the gatekeeper to the sub-editor and reporter has been formed under General Zia-ul-Haq.  I am based on religious fanaticism and contempt for other religions, but now some universities are adding a chapter on human rights.

 Adnan Rehmat says that nowhere is it a policy not to report to minorities but it is a matter of priorities. Now there is no public interest journalism. From TV channels to newspapers, they do simple journalism i.e. rhetoric etc.

 He said that the parties representing religious minorities are religious in nature and not political.  The media reports incidents until the minorities talk about their political and economic rights and issues in their programs. The media will not report.

 Senior journalist Mazhar Abbas says that basically these infotainment channels have become more than news channels which have news but it is offered in an entertaining manner.  Now they defend it in such a way that in the rating formula, only those things that have enthusiasm, fun, and terror get higher rating. Channels do not want to present serious topics.  If the rating formula is improved, the situation will be much better.

'Minority employment quota in Pakistan limited to sanitary workers'

  During the 70 years of Pakistan's existence, the employment quota for minorities has been reduced from 11% to 5% and is no longer implemented, according to a research report titled 'Minorities of Faith and Bailiff'.  I have been

 The Sami Foundation, an NGO, conducted the study in Karachi, Sukkur and Umerkot, in consultation with minority representatives as well as civil society groups.

 According to the report, the population of Sindh is estimated at 56 million, of which 91% are Muslims and 9% are minorities, including Hindus, Christians and Parsis.  Eight and a half per cent of the nine per cent are Hindus, of which 50 per cent live in Tharparkar.

 Pakistan's first law minister, Joginder Nath, had introduced an 11% quota in jobs for the welfare of minorities. The system benefited Hindu, Christian, Baha'i and Scheduled Caste tribes, with a separate 6% quota for Scheduled Castes.  had gone.

In 1998, Rana Chandra Singh and Shahbaz Bhatti introduced an amendment bill in the National Assembly, according to which all minorities, including Hindus, Ahmadis, Christians and Baha'is, would benefit from the 5% quota.  Surprisingly, members of parliament representing minorities proposed an amendment to reduce the quota from 11% to 5%.

 The amendment reduced the overall quota as well as abolished the separate quota of 6% of the Scheduled Caste, which benefited the Bheel, Kolhi, Meghawar, Bala, Kabutra tribes and closed the doors of government jobs to them in the future.  Were given and they remained farmers with the big landlords.

  At present the quota in government jobs is five per cent but only two to three per cent is implemented, even lower grade jobs are given, usually scavengers, sanitary workers or below 14 to 15 grades.  Are.

 The report quoted a minority woman as saying that the practice in other cities of Sindh, including Karachi, on the 5% quota is limited to Khakrob's employment, even though these jobs are not provided on merit.

 According to the report, a political party in Karachi recruited its workers for sanitary workers on the quota of minorities in the municipal services, while in other cities local politicians recruit their own people, the majority of whom are Muslims.  They don't even go to their jobs, they just get paid.

 A former Hindu MP asked if five per cent minority judges were visible in the judiciary.  Not a single one of the secretaries of the provincial departments is a minority, thus no deputy commissioner of a district is from a minority community.  Isn't this a qualification in the Hindu community?  If so, who was running the system here before 1947? '

 The report also highlights the reasons why the minority quota has not been fully implemented in accordance with the rules.  The lack of interest of the government, those responsible for the implementation of this law are not able to fulfil their responsibilities.

 "If the federal government announces a vacancy in Islamabad, how did the announcement reach Umerkot because the newspapers there do not come here? The second is how a poor person from here can reach Islamabad for an interview."

 In consultation with the report, some argue that political, religious and class implications are an obstacle to the implementation of minority quotas, as well as a mind set that believes that minorities are largely illiterate and have large jobs.  Not eligible for Hindu and Christian sanitary workers and other small jobs that refuse to convert to Islam, the unemployment rate among minorities is so high that even graduates are out of work because government jobs are given on political grounds rather than merit.  ۔

 The report recommends that a policy be formulated to ensure that minority quotas are met.  If an employee dies, his or her children should be employed on a parent quota.

 It has also been recommended that political interference be stopped, the Scheduled Caste and the Dalit community be represented in the National and Provincial Assemblies and their six per cent quota in employment be restored.

 In order to keep minorities informed about jobs, the Ministry of Minority Affairs should keep its website up to date, advertise jobs in local newspapers as well as through radio and TV.