In our Behind the Scenes series , CNN correspondents share their experiences in covering news and analyze the stories behind the events . CNN 's Cal Perry reports on a refugee camp in Islamabad , Pakistan . Children at the camp are in danger of dehydration , says a doctor who visited the refugees with CNN . ISLAMABAD , Pakistan ( CNN ) -- They are not war refugees , not displaced by violence ; rather they believe they 're here because they are Christian . A mother of two sobs as she tells us , `` I have no money . No money for books or uniforms to send my children to school . '' It 's around 110 degrees Fahrenheit in this squalid camp in downtown Islamabad , where 2,000 Christians have settled , literally in the middle of the road . The Christian population of Pakistan is only 5 percent of the overall population . Overwhelmed by a Muslim majority , at times they face violent attacks . Other times , they believe they 're expelled from their lands -- faced with a distant and dark future . This group has ended up living in tents for the past 3 months . They say the government kicked them off their land without warning : only because they are Christian . The government tells a different story , saying that they were given plenty of warning . Further than that , they say they will take care of this problem , a problem they are well aware of . The minister of minority affairs , Shahbaz Bhatti , says , `` We are constitutionally bound to protect the life and property of the minorities and to look after the interests of the minorities in this country . Because they played a role in the founding , they are equal citizens of the country . Yes , there is a problem , but we are trying to solve those problems . '' The truth is , regardless of any religious strife , people are dying of poverty in this camp . Two have died since the group settled here , and children lay in the sun , totally exposed to the sun , suffering slowly . We brought a doctor to the camp ; he seemed stunned , both at its location and the conditions . `` I think there 's a danger here , especially with some of the younger children , that they could just die from dehydration or from all kinds of infections , '' says Dr. Rixwan Taj . `` I am very surprised , really because this is the center of Islamabad , just right in the center . And every facility is not but 10 minutes from here . '' The water the camp is using to survive on is a broken pipe that runs underneath the road and out one side . At the camp , the water is used for drinking and washing . It happens to run over a pile of trash and directly down into the makeshift toilets , which are two holes in the ground . Taj tells us the obvious : Typhoid will come to this camp -- the conditions are ripe . Other countries of course deal with religious strife ; minorities all over the world face an uphill struggle . But here , with the addition of poverty , in the oppressive heat -- in an over-crowed camp on the side of the road in downtown Islamabad -- it seems that much worse . A little girl stares into our camera and rhythmically says , `` Hallelujah , hallelujah , hallelujah . '' Her religion teaches her that `` the poor '' will inherit `` the kingdom of heaven . '' Heaven seems a long way off .
2,000 Christians have settled in the middle of the road . They say the government kicked them off their land without warning . Government says they were given plenty of warning . Doctor says he is surprised at poor conditions in the camp .