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The photocopies of these documents shall follow the same procedure. The documents related to Protector of Immigration should also be attested by the same office before countersigned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Islamabad. License of overseas promoters are required to be attested by Protector of Emigration and photo copy is also required to be attested by the same. License of manufacture, invoice, certificate of origin etc.
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Special Power of Attorney. General Power of Attorney. Our foreign policy is one of friendliness and goodwill towards all the nations of the world. Skip to content. Home Consular Affairs. In addition, our Missions provide various Consular Services to Overseas Pakistanis and foreigners within their jurisdiction in the following areas:- 1. Legalization of documents 5. Repatriation of Pakistanis 6. Provision of Consular access to detained Pakistanis abroad 7. Assistance to destitute Pakistani citizens 8.
Provision of legal aid to overseas Pakistanis 9. Birth Registration of Pakistanis Children born overseas That did not guarantee easy assimilation. The military government of General Zia ul Haq — that took over power in — only expedited Christian departures.
Many prominent Pakistani Christians, including Michael Nazir Ali, left Pakistan in those years to avoid religious persecution at the hands of a dictatorial regime that had the self-declared agenda of Islamising every part of public and private life in the country. Ali was working as Bishop of Raiwind when he left Pakistan. Ali now works as Bishop of Rochester in England.
Presbyterian missionaries from the West started setting up schools and colleges across Punjab during the last quarter of the 19th century. The stated objective of these educational institutions was to educate the upper classes in the subcontinent and introduce them to Christianity. The British records in show there were no native Christians in Punjab at the time. But because of the huge missionary efforts, there were about 4, native Christians in the province by They were a scattered and diverse urban community.
The missionaries were also working simultaneously on converting the native villagers to Christianity. Mass conversions started at places in Sialkot district in and spread to adjacent districts of Sheikhupura, Lahore and Gujranwala. Because of the mass conversion, the Christian population of Punjab increased from about 4, in to , by In the interim, the number of Christians in Lahore had risen from 7, to 57, That explains why there always have been two distinct classes within Christians in this part of the world — a small educated urban community and a much larger population of illiterate, unskilled, landless rural folks.
The people belonging to this community were socially excluded, living outside villages and facing serious discrimination in their everyday lives. He also noted their occupations. Because of their landlessness, Ibbetson associated them with gypsies. Briefly, these principles are as follows: There is one God; sin is a reality, man is sinful; there is a High Priest Bala Shah , who is also a Mediator, to whom they pray; sacrifice is part of the worship of God; the spirit of man at death returns to God; there will be a resurrection of the body; there will be a day of judgment; there are angels, and there are evil spirits; there is heaven, and there is hell.
A settlement for local converts to Christianity in what is now Nankana Sahab district is called Youngsonabad. They have been trying different things to get rid of the social stigma attached to the word. Baba Sadiq is close to a century old. A tall man with sunken cheeks, he was born in a village called Nazir Labana in Sheikhupura district. He was one of the first people in his village to convert to Christianity. His relatives — Maulu, Lahnoon, Kama, Kala, Sohan, Gahnoon — who lived in a nearby village, Taamkay, converted to Christianity and pressurised his family to also convert.
Sadiq continued to live in the same village till Partition but then shifted elsewhere. His movement represents a larger pattern. The United Presbyterian Church, Church of Scotland, the Salvation Army, Church of England and, later, the Catholic Church and Methodist Church set up about 20 villages in Punjab in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to bring together scattered local converts in order to improve their socio-economic conditions. Probably the most famous ones among them are Martinpur and Youngsonabad, both in district Nankana Sahib. When Martinpur was founded, he came here along with his family.
Living up to its founding objective, Martinpur has produced several people who stand out for their educational and professional achievements. Jehangir, for instance, is working as a high court lawyer while his father, David Fazlud Din, retired as a district and sessions judge in Perhaps the most prominent native of Martinpur is Samuel Martin Burke.
A scholar on Tibetan studies, he arrived in Punjab in and founded the village of Maryamabad in Sheikhupura district in He settled them on the mission lands, and taught them … how to earn an honest living. In , the British government of India put land at his disposal for setting up another village.
Shahbaz Bhatti, federal minister for minority affairs, who was murdered in early in Islamabad, was a native of Khushpur. Around , Catholic missionaries also encouraged Punjabi Christians to settle as tenants and peasants in the vast tracts of land given to the royal Indian army to grow cereals and produce dairy products for its internal consumption. These model villages were able to provide decent living conditions to a few thousand Christian converts.
Still most of them remained dependent on Sikh landlords and worked for them as their hired hands. That changed in — only for the worse. A woman weeps during service at St. In Harichand village in Sheikhupura district, a well was reserved for local Christians. After Partition, a Muslim migrant from India came to the village and claimed the government had allotted him two acres of land around the well. When he stopped local Christians from using the well, they sought help from Christians in neighbouring villages. Together, they formed a fighting group armed with guns.
The migrant was also helped by other migrants in the same manner. The two sides were on the verge of opening fire at each other when some men came on horses from nearby villages and urged them not to fight. After they landed in the cities, Christians had limited economic opportunities.
They could work at brick kilns — that were springing up next to big cities to cater to the booming housing and construction sectors. Those who took up that option set themselves up for bonded labour for life.
A large portion of that number works as brick layers and Christians form one of the biggest groups within them. The other option was to take up menial government jobs as sanitary workers. Traditionally, low-caste Hindus worked as sanitary workers in the cities that became part of Pakistan but, in , most of them went to India. The government thought Punjabi Christians would be happy to do that kind of work.