Islamabad : May 4, 2010. (PCP) The 18th Amendment to the Pakistani constitution, landmark legislation which aims to strengthen democracy and prevent the military from taking power in Pakistan, has avoided the issue of the controversial blasphemy law that has come to haunt Pakistan’s minorities such as Christians, Ahmadi Muslims and Hindus over the years in Pakistan. A report on the “State of Human Rights in 2009” by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan shows the bleak picture of the minorities, noting that last year, a total of 41 complaints regarding Blasphemy Law were registered by the police. According to the report, Ramesh Kumar, Patron of the Pakistan Hindu Council (PHC), said that he had met with top government officials, including Senator Raza Rabbani, the Chairman of Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Reforms, seeking amendments to the blasphemy law but failed to get any response. Representing the Christian community, Michael Javed, Secretary General of All Pakistan Minorities Alliance, said that the government officials had made promises on several occasions, but that “it seems that the state has forgotten the outrageous Gojra incident in which seven people [Christians] were burnt alive and more than 40 houses were torched.” “The Blasphemy Law has become a dead noose for us,” said Sardar Ramesh, of the Sikh community, a community which has no representation either in the government or in the opposition. Ahmadi Muslims, who are dismissed as simply Ahmadis or Qadianis in Pakistan, have suffered most due to the blasphemy law of Pakistan.