Faiths which reduce mankind to a flawed species renounce real convictions and the right to choose. Therefore, when Pakistan’s religious minorities believe that the country’s road to democracy has spelt a slow death for them, it is difficult to disagree. It was the Pakistan Peoples Party’s (PPP) five-year rule that proved detrimental for the minorities, [...]
January 10, 2014
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The government of Pakistan has restored an historic Hindu temple in Punjab province’s Chakwal region. Members of the country’s Hindu minority have thanked authorities for renovating the temple – called Katasraj – saying it is a significant step in reassuring them of their status in a Muslim-majority society. [...]
January 2, 2014
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PESHAWAR: A Hindu school teacher was allegedly kidnapped by unidentified people while on her way back home from school near the Pakistan Radio Colony on Saturday afternoon. Faqir Chand, the father of the missing 25-year-old woman Sapna Rani, said his daughter is a teacher at the Peshawar Science Academy near Ayub Flour Mill on GT Road. [...]
December 23, 2013
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There seems no impact of the recently globally observed day of “Human Rights” in Pakistan. The suppression of minority Hindus in Pakistan continues as their human rights being violated in Pakistan has become an ongoing issue After many cases of abduction and forceful Islamic conversion of Hindu girls, now a new trend of demolition Hindu [...]
December 18, 2013
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Pakistani Debating conspiracy theories on how India and Hindus plan to destroy Pakistan Please Sign the Petition Stop hate speech inflaming tensions in the UK [...]
November 27, 2013
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Madan Lal was standing near his house at Munir Ahmad Khan Road when the gunmen riding a motorcycle shot him and fled. Lal died on the spot. Unidentified armed men gunned down a Hindu man in Quetta city of southwest Pakistan today, police said. Madan Lal was standing near his house at Munir Ahmad Khan [...]
May 26, 2013
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Sindh: Two policemen along with two other men allegedly gang raped a married woman after subjecting her to torture, Geo News reported Monday.A 20-year old Hindu woman, resident of Aadhi village in Tharparkar, alleged that two policemen posted at a local check-post barged into her house and gang-raped her along with two other men after [...]
Veero Kolhi was a slave of landlords. She has broken the shackles of slavery and has stood up against them in the elections. When she made the asset declaration required of candidates for Pakistan’s May elections, she listed the following items: two beds, five mattresses, cooking pots and a bank account with life savings of [...]
India is the land they connect their lives to. And their luck seemed to shine when they found a safe shelter so miraculously. The Superintendent of Central Excise and Customs at Delhi airport, Nahar has turned out to be a genie out of the bottle for hundreds of Sindhi refugees who’ve been crossing the border [...]
April 10, 2013
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Hindu school teacher gives her son an Arabic name to avoid persecution KARACHI: Thirty-two year old school teacher, a Hindu widow Shanti Kumari named her second son Zafar when class fellows and friends of her elder son Prakash Kumar kept asking every time about Hindu gods and goddesses, they saw in Indian films. “I never [...]
March 31, 2013
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