Pakistan

Washington: Influential American lawmakers have expressed concern over deterioration of human rights situation in particular those of the minority Hindus in Pakistan‘s Sindh province. “Sindh’s Hindu community lives in constant fear of their women being forcibly converted to Islam,” Congresswomen Loretta Sanchez alleged during a briefing on human rights situation in Sindh held in US [...]

  “There were old houses located in this street, which must have once belonged to Hindu families living here. I wondered in what condition they must have left their homes in 1947, temporarily locking their doors, perhaps burying their precious belongings, hoping to return one day. They never returned, but perhaps they told their loved [...]

KARACHI: Scores of human rights activists, nationalists and office bearers of Hindu rights organisations staged a protest outside the Karachi Press Club on Sunday against the alleged gang rape and killing of an intermediate student and school teacher, Hawa Meghwar. The participants shouted slogans against the police and local influential people, as well as against the [...]

DCO Karak says Rs2m has been allocated for renovation. ISLAMABAD: The top court on Tuesday recommended the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) administration to rebuild a Hindu temple in Karak district by a special architect. Chief Justice Jawwad S Khawaja, heading a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court, has referred his order, wherein it had asked architect Kamil Khan [...]

NEW DELHI: The government is working on an ordinance to amend the Citizenship Act to grant citizenship to “persecuted” Hindu refugees from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan. While the ordinance will cover refugees from three nations, it is primarily aimed at Hindu migrants from Bangladesh who have crossed over into Assam and West Bengal in large [...]

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh  spokesperson explaining the work being done in relief operations in Nepal while pakistan sends beef food packets to the victims [...]

Flashback to a darker time through print ads that ran December 14-18 1971 in the Dawn newspaper. Estimates say 2.4 million Hindus killed in 1971 – where was the world then ? “As the Pakistan army moved out into the countryside to “crush the Awami League,” all evidence-including the simple fact that the bulk of [...]

On Monday 8 December Hindu Human Rights Group participated in the book launch sponsored by Andrew Stephenson, MP for Pendle, at the House of Commons. The event was organised by Wilson Chowdhry of the British Pakistani Christian Association and genocide expert Dr Desmond Fernandes. The book launch was for The Education System in Pakistan: Discrimination [...]

The Hindu Human Rights Group in conjunction with the British Pakistani Christian Association (BPCA) invites you to the book launch of The Education System in Pakistan: Discrimination and the Targeting of the ‘Other’ Speakers include the following book contributors: Peter Tatchell (Director of the Peter Tatchell Foundation) Desmond Fernandes (Genocide Scholar) Faiz Baluch (International Voice [...]

Remove the white part of the national flag if you cannot give minorities justice, a Hindu resident of Gracey Lines said regretfully. Named after the second Commander in Chief of the Pakistan Army General Douglas Gracey, the area is located in Block 4 of Chaklala Cantonment Board (CCB). Almost 50 families including Hindus, Christians, and [...]