INSIGHT UK presented a report to an All‑Party Parliamentary Group for British Hindus on 24 October 2026, arguing that the Hindu community now makes up less than 2 % of Pakistan’s 240‑million population.
The report traces the decline back to the 1941 Census of India, which recorded Hindus as 14.6 % of the population that would later become West Pakistan. The partition and the subsequent Enemy Property laws stripped thousands of Hindus of ancestral land, plunging the community into poverty.
More than 1,000 Hindu and Christian women and girls are abducted annually, forcibly converted to Islam and married to their captors—a pattern the report cites as a continuing human‑rights crisis. A 25‑year‑old daughter of a textile worker in Lahore was pulled from her home last year, her family left with nothing.
Pakistan’s constitution bars non‑Muslims from the presidency and prime ministership, and the country still requires every citizen to declare religion on passports. The unfinished construction of a Hindu temple in Islamabad, halted by Islamist protests in 2020, underscores the legal and social barriers facing minorities.
INSIGHT UK demands that the UK make minority protection a non‑negotiable condition in all UK‑Pakistan dialogue, tie aid to human‑rights progress, reserve two posts at the British High Commission for minority representatives, publish semi‑annual reports on minority conditions, and create safe asylum pathways for those fleeing forced conversion.
The report is slated to influence a forthcoming UK parliamentary debate, with the Foreign Secretary expected to announce a new policy framework by the end of the fiscal year.