<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">In Pakistan, a Human Rights Observer 2023 fact sheet has underscored the increase in religious content against minorities in curriculum and textbooks during the year 2022. The Centre for Social Justice on Thursday issued the "Human Rights Observer 2023", an annual fact sheet. The report covers five key issues impacting religious minorities including discrimination in the education system, the prevalence of forced faith conversions, abuse of blasphemy laws, the establishment of the National Commission for Minorities, and jail remissions for minority prisoners.</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">The fact sheet showed that as many as 171 people were accused of blasphemy laws.</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">Furthermore, 124 reported incidents of forced faith conversions involving girls and women from minority communities were analyzed which included 81 Hindu, 42 Christian, and one Sikh. Only 12 percent of the victims were adults.</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">The fact sheet stated that no progress was made regarding providing remission to minority prisoners during 2022, despite the fact that this concession had been available for Muslim prisoners since 1978. It further stated that the establishment of the statutory National Commission for Minorities remained pending.</span></p>