Source: Morning Star News, October 28, 2025
A 22-year-old Christian man in Pakistan has won a seven-month legal battle to have his religious designation corrected on his national identity card.
Attorney Lazar Allah Rakha said that [Rahul] Masih’s original identity card, issued in June 2022, carried his correct name and faith, but that when he applied for a duplicate card after losing the original, NADRA issued him one stating his name as Sufyan Ali and his religion as Islam.
“Masih made repeated visits to the NADRA office, but his pleas to rectify the mistake were not entertained,” Rakha told Morning Star News.
A Catholic working in an office of a private housing society, Masih had no option but to seek the court’s intervention in the issue with the support of legal advocacy organization ADF International, Rakha said.
During the court proceedings, NADRA representatives claimed that Masih had willfully converted to Islam and registered himself as a Muslim, though they failed to substantiate their claim with documentary evidence, Rakha said.
“Noting that the defendants had failed to discredit Masih’s stance, the judge ordered NADRA to issue him his national identity card as per his correct name and religion,” he said.
During the proceedings, Masih presented his baptism and school certificates and also brought his Christian parents to testify about his faith, he said.
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Also from Morning Star News, see Oppressed Christian in Pakistan Charged with Blasphemy, which quotes the same Christian attorney—a man who could also use our prayers.