Minorities in Pakistan, today, enjoy a whole range of %u2018rights%u2019, be it the talibanised form which gives them a %u2018right%u2019 to choose between death or conversion or the more enlightened and civilised one which allows them the %u2018right%u2019 of absolute authority over picking the colour of their own, personal and separate tableware, but little else.
These minorities are disenfranchised economically %u2014 by disallowing them access to respectable jobs or only allowing them access to menial ones. They are oppressed politically by being systemically denied any real voice on any public forum. The voices that do represent them come from throats attached to people as, socially, distanced from a poor Christian or pitiable Hindu as a capitalist is from an ordinary worker. They are broken, culturally, by having their places of worship turned into warehouses or shops of the very items that those particular religions prohibit.
