pakistani hindus

Far away from her homeland, her family, whom she is waiting for, in ‎India to arrive since past 2 years..a Pakistani Hindu ‎migrant Kiran dadi has a lot to share. She’s a kind of person who doesn’t need much to be happy.Her soul is full of life when life has not been so kind to [...]

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 [...]

Like every year we again will witness two major Hindu events soon : the Global Dharma Conference in Edison, New Jersey, and the World Hindu Economic Forum conference in London. It is commendable that events to highlight Hindu Dharma are being organised. Hindus are often seen as ineffectual and apathetic.  These events provide a much [...]

New Delhi: The incidents of attack on Hindu temples by fanatics in Pakistan have been taking place for years. A number of temples have been torched, idols of Hindu gods damaged, religious books burnt. With a population of around seven million, Hindus form the largest religious minority group in Pakistan, which, at 195 million, is [...]

Discrimination against Hindus living in Pakistan has been increasing constantly over a period of time. They have been persecuted with tacit support of law enforcing agencies. In 2014, from January to June, a series of attacks on Hindu temples in Sindh, Pakistan were reported.  In November, the incidents of dozens of forced conversion of Hindu [...]

Hyderabad, Pakistan – About two months ago, a Muslim businessman approached Dharmo Sochi and put a gun to his head, demanding his Hindu daughter’s hand in marriage.The businessman, Jameel Solangi, allegedly threatened the family with abduction and murder unless they acquiesced. Sochi’s 16-year-old daughter, Madhuri, had previously been harassed by Solangi but was too traumatised to [...]

Islamabad: Hindus in Pakistan are the worst victims of rape, says a report by an independent American group. In the past 18 months, seven incidents of Hindu girls being raped were reported, says the study by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). Not only this, two Hindus were killed and four injured in 16 [...]

NEW DELHI: Over the past one year, the Narendra Modi-led government has granted Indian citizenship to over 4,200 Hindus and Sikhs from Pakistan and Afghanistan which is nearly four times the number of the preceding five years.  Figures at the end of April 2015 showed that the BJP government approved citizenship for 4,230 Hindus and Sikhs [...]

A Pak court has set free 97 Hindus, including women and children, who had been kept as bonded labourers at a brick kiln in Pak’s Punjab province for the last four years. LAHORE: A Pakistani court has set free 97 Hindus, including women and children, who had been kept as bonded labourers at a brick [...]

Offering to help Pakistani Hindus who have taken refuge in the country, Gurjar community in UP’s Saharanpur district has drawn up plans to facilitate their rehabilitation and is encouraging marriages between local youths and girls from the displaced families. The campaign is backed by local BJP leaders including MP Raghav Lakhanpal. “We have come to [...]