According to Home Affairs Department, there are 24,385 Pakistani people live in Hong Kong constituting 4% of the population based on the 2021 census.
In 1829, the trade reached its peak and the gate for the early Muslims settling down in Hong Kong had been opened since then.
The early seamen from the Indian subcontinent mostly came from the shores of Malabar, Bay of Bengal, Hazara (Abbottabad), Lahore, Gujarat and Campbellpur (Attock).
With Hong Kong beginning to develop into an important seaport for the British, more seamen and garrisons were passing through and some settled here.
A significant majority of the British-Indian Muslims who migrated were from the region which is today's Pakistan and Bangladesh, but statistically, some of them are still counted as "Indians In Hong Kong".
The rates for male ethnic minorities, except for age group 6–11, were in general higher than those for their female counterparts.
Hong Kong Education Department has been providing programmes to schools adopting mother-tongue (Cantonese) teaching.
[17] Unison was established as a non-governmental organization in 2001 for ethnic equality and was registered as a public charitable institution in 2005.
Christian Action Shine Centre was established in 2009 to provide support services to ethnic minorities and local organisations.
Employment workshops, such as "Career development through vocational education" and "Labour laws and practice in Hong Kong", and visits to various job fairs are organized by the centre in 2010.
[21] RTHK– has produced some TV programmes for Hong Kong people to understand the Pakistanis as an ethnic minority group in local society.
Deputy Consul General of Pakistan Malik Muhammad Asim Mr Saeeduddin Mr Qamar Mihas Mr Javed Iqbal Chaudhri Gulzar Qari Muhammad Tayab Mufti Arshad Pervez Akhtar, Head of California school, Hong Kong Kemal Bokhary* Daoud Bokhary, stockbroker and father of Court of Final Appeal judge Kemal Bokhary[26] Heina Rizwan Mohammad, is the first South Asian woman to be recruited as a police officer for the Hong Kong Police Force and received 27 week training.
[27] Hong Kong-born Heina Rizwan Mohammad will work as a police constable in district Yuen Long.
Nabela Qoser is the first Cantonese-language news reporter of non-ethnic Chinese descent in Hong Kong.