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World Sindhi Congress pledges to strengthen community's struggle for right
Updated : 3 years ago IST
The speakers eloquently highlighted Raj Kumar Wanjara's pivotal role as a leading voice against the heinous practice of forced conversions of Sindhi Hindu girls in Pakistan, orchestrated by state proxies. They emphasized how Raj Kumar's personal tragedy, exemplified by the forced conversion
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Neither love jihad will work, nor will we allow vicious cycle of religious
Updated : 3 years ago IST
CM Chouhan made the remark while talking to the reporters about the recent action of Madhya Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) against members associated with the radical Islamic organisation Hizb-ut-Tahrir (HuT) in the state capital Bhopal on Tuesday.
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Situation of women, girls in Pakistan is critical: Report
Updated : 3 years ago IST
In the southern province of Sindh, which is home to nearly 90 per cent of the Hindu minority group, forced conversions to Islam of kidnapped Hindu girls and their subsequent forced weddings to Muslim men--usually to the abductors--are quite common, reported HRWF.
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Inspiring story of 22 Sikh women amid the pain of partition
Updated : 3 years ago IST
On the March 8 morning, 1947, 22 brave women were sacrificed unflinchingly amidst the recitation of 'Gurbani'. It must have been horrifying for all involved. The extreme courage and tolerance required to kill your kin, your loved ones, is inexplicable, yet it was done, Khalsa Vox reported.
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Madhya Pradesh govt makes 'The Kerala Story' film tax-free
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
CM Chouhan said that 'The Kerala Story' makes people aware of the religious conversions and that everyone including the children should watch the film.
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Pakistan: Sindhis hold protest rally against forced conversions of Hindu g
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
A large number of Sindhis joined a protest rally in Sann of Pakistan's Sindh province to condemn the forced conversion of Hindu girls, enforced disappearances and genocide of Sindhi political activists.
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Plight of women in Pakistan deteriorates amid forced marriages, conversion
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
As women in Pakistan continue to bear the brunt of forced marriages and conversions, some have also succeeded to escape, bringing such incidents to light.
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Pakistan: Minorities take out protest rally in front of Sindh Assembly aga
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
During the rally, they raised slogans against forced conversions, prayed for Issac Samson, who has been missing since February 29, 2012, and put up banners of Hindu girls who had been abducted and forcibly converted to Islam.
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EU members feel granting GSP to Pakistan will erode European values
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Many European observers opine that the values subscribed by the EU are at a great threat of erosion if GSP status is granted to Pakistan or any other country without stringent scrutiny of compliance on their part, reported Geo-politik.
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Target killing of minorities continues unabated in Pakistan, Christian man
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
A Christian man was shot dead in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province on Saturday, in what officials say is the second incident of target killing of minorities in the last 24 hours, reported The Khorasan Diary.
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Pakistan: Content against minorities in textbooks has increased, says repo
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) issued the "Human Rights Observer 2023", an annual fact sheet. The report covers five key issues impacting religious minorities including discrimination in the education system, the prevalence of forced faith conversions, abuse of blasphemy laws, the estab
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Pakistan: Dalit group takes out rally for solution to problems of forced c
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
As part of the demonstration, taken out on Thursday, hundreds of members from various scheduled caste Hindu groups, such as the Kolhi, Bheel, Meghwar, Oad, and Bagri held a sit-in outside the provincial legislature under the banner of the Pakistan Darawer Ittehad.
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