A highly inflammatory and disturbing video is doing the rounds on social media platforms in which a Pakistani man is threatening a Hindu boy to chant ‘Allah-u-Akbar’. If that were not all, the man is also forcing the youngster to abuse Hindu gods and goddesses. “Abuse your deities….. You guys have polluted entire Pakistan,” he [...]
Today the world faces existential threat from two sides: global conflict and ecological collapse. We are heading into double extinctions, of culture and nature. These twin interlocking violations are centuries long processes with a common history of settler-colonialism, neo-colonialism and industrial capitalism[i]. Settler colonialism is, as Patrick Wolfe (2006) stated, a “logic of elimination”. It [...]
Hindu community members in Karachi protested against the destruction of a temple in northwest Pakistan. The protesters raised slogans against the government demanded justice. Some protesters said that the act could not have been committed without the backing of the government. 30 people allegedly associated with the radical outfit Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam have been arrested in [...]
Amid COVID-19 outbreak, thousands of poor people gathered at Rehrri Ghoth in Karachi to receive food supplies and daily essentials.
However, those who belong to the Hindu community were told to go back since the rations were only meant for Muslims. [...]
Several temples and houses of members of Hindu community have been attacked in Ghotki town of Pakistan’s Sindh. The violence in the region followed an alleged blasphemous remark by a school principal, who is a Hindu, in Ghotki. [...]
The two minor Hindu sisters -- 13-year-old Raveena and 15-year-old Reena -- were allegedly kidnapped, forcibly converted to Islam and then married in Pakistan's Sindh province, triggering protests by the minority community. [...]
Pakistan PM Imran Khan’s ex-wife Reham Khan took to twitter and condemned the incident saying, “Disgusting but there will be no action as politics comes first for all players.” A Hindu girl in Pakistan’s Sindh province was allegedly converted and married off to a Muslim man. According to the report, the 16-year-old Hindu girl was [...]
The recent acquittal of Asia Bibi after a decade on death row was initially a cause of celebration, indeed relief. Accused under the draconian and much abused Blasphemy Law of Pakistan, [...]
A Pakistani cop is seen slapping and hurling abuses at a Hindu woman and allegedly selling her for Rs 50,000. [...]
For more than a decade, Ajmal Singh has been trying to get Indian citizenship. He fled Pakistan 14 years ago and continues to live in a refugee camp, with ten children, on the outskirts of Jodhpur. He worked as a driver before crossing over but doesn’t know farming or mining, the only two jobs readily [...]
August 11, 2016
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