Talk:COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan

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Wikquote allows for Anonymous quotes in some cases. Due to widespread anti-Christian discrimination against Christians in Pakistan, it is understandable that the quote critical of Pakistan's handling of the virus is anonymous. But a pastor is a leader of the Christian community and seems quotable in the context of the situation of local Christians in Pakistan. Excluding a quote on this basis would reward and encourage this state of anti-Christian discrimination.

I have no strong opinion about these two quotes, but still they should be moved to the talkpage since they are at least on topic to this page.


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 * Islamic foundations that are well-funded by Pakistan's government force them to embrace Islam. Otherwise, they cannot receive aid during this coronavirus pandemic... Especially Christians and Hindus face extreme discrimination in Pakistan... Some 70 percent of the Christians scrape by with hard labor on their daily wages ... They now face a dire situation where they cannot even afford to fulfill the basic needs of their families. The only option for food is if they accept Islam.
 * ECSPE's co-founder Farrukh Saif, as quoted in " 'Pakistan Christians Starving for Not Embracing Islam' " by Stefan J. Bos, 20 April 2020, BosNewsLife


 * A few days back there was an announcement made through a mosque's loudspeaker in the Sher-Shah neighborhood of inviting citizens to collect the government's announced foodstuffs. ... When Christians reached the distribution point and presented their national identity cards, they were asked by staffers to get out of the line claiming the foodstuff was only for Muslim citizens.
 * Unnamed pastor from Lahore, as quoted in "Pakistani Christian Leaders Report Another Incident of Aid Being Denied to Christians", 3 April 2020,

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 * ".. With the world still trying to figure out whether the coronavirus was bat-made or man-made, a Pakistani cleric surprised everyone with his discovery — this pandemic is women-made. It was the short clothes of women that has brought on this pandemic, he said about his scientific discovery. The coronavirus is female. Who knew....At Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Ehsaas telethon.., Maulana Tariq Jameel, an influential leader of the Tablighi Jamaat, was the show-stopper, to say the least....Tariq Jameel declared that the coronavirus was Allah’s wrath on the increasing nudity, obscenity and immodesty in society. It was because of growing sins and sinners that this pandemic was upon us. Women, of course, were at the centre of all the mayhem. Maulana Tariq Jameel’s scientific discovery wasn’t worth challenging — not by Prime Minister Imran Khan, not by the journalists and not by any of the women attending the event....Ironically, over 27 per cent of the coronavirus cases in Pakistan are from the Tablighi Jamaat’s Ijtema (annual religious gathering) in Raiwind city, where 2,50,000 people had gathered in March ignoring government order, yet the cleric blames women for the virus’ spread. Their clothes have to be the super-spreader then. If it were up to Pakistan’s clerics, they’d be tallying the Covid-19 cases based on women’s hemlines.
 * Naila Inayat in Pakistani cleric close to Imran Khan has found what caused coronavirus pandemic, the Print 30 April, 2020


 * "...It is not the first time, and it certainly won’t be the last, Pakistani women got blamed for calamities. From earthquakes to floods and tsunamis, and now a pandemic, they have been blamed for all — sometimes it’s their clothing, other times it’s their immodesty that plays havoc on the country. From the time of their birth, they are blamed for every misdeed the society puts them through — and every tragedy that falls upon the masses. In a society where the birth of a girl child is considered a natural calamity, clerics like Tariq Jameel pander to their religious constituency and strengthen these misogynistic notions. They don’t look within, and it’s unimaginable of them to cast any blame on men...."
 * Naila Inayat in Pakistani cleric close to Imran Khan has found what caused coronavirus pandemic, the Print 30 April, 2020