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Silent protest held outside UN over persecution of Christians in Pak
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], June 21 (ANI): A silent demonstration was held on Saturday in front of the United Nations Office in Geneva alongside Broken Chair to raise a voice in solidarity to eradicate the malicious blasphemy law and forced conversions in Pakistan.
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Persecution, forced conversion of Hindu girls on rise in Pakistan
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Mirpur Khas [Pakistan], June 2 (ANI): The minorities in Pakistan, especially Hindus, continue to face persecution in the hands of state and non-state actors as incidents of violence and forced conversions are on the rise.
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Hindu couple forcibly converted to Islam in Pakistan's Sindh
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Sindh [Pakistan], May 15 (ANI): In another incident of religious intolerance in Pakistan, a Hindu couple was forcibly converted to Islam at a local mosque in Sindh's city of Nawabshah.
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The state of minorities in the Islamic State
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Glasgow [Scotland], May 6 (ANI): According to the State of Human Rights 2019 annual report published by Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), "Religious minorities remained unable to enjoy the freedom of religion or belief guaranteed to them under the constitution...this has meant the
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Protest outside Pak High Commission in London over forced conversion of Hi
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
London [UK], Feb 18 (ANI): Pakistani human rights activists and members of the Indian community continued their protest for the second day on Monday (local times) outside Pakistan High Commission in London seeking justice for Mehak Kumari, a minor Hindu girl who was forcibly converted to
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Protests held outside Karachi Press Club to seek justice for Mehak Kumari
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], Feb 15 (ANI): Members of the civil society and lawyers held a protest outside the Karachi press club here on Saturday to seek justice for Mehak Kumari, a minor Hindu girl who was forcibly converted to Islam and married to a Muslim man.
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Moulvis cry foul as Hindu minor retracts her statement on 'willful convers
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Jacobabad (Sindh) [Pakistan], Feb 8 (ANI): A section of Islamic clerics in Pakistan is up in arms after a minor Hindu girl Mehak Kumari retracted her previous statement in the court where she stated that she wasn't converted forcefully to Islam.
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Pak Hindu bride abducted, converted to Islam, forcibly married to Muslim
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Sindh [Pakistan], Jan 27 (ANI): In yet another case of forced conversion in Pakistan, a Hindu girl was abducted during her wedding ceremony and was married off to a Muslim man after being converted to Islam.
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Sirsa writes to Amit Shah, expresses concern over treatment of minorities
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 10 (ANI): Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Manjinder Singh Sirsa on Tuesday wrote a letter to Home Minister Amit Shah, expressing grave concern over the treatment of minorities in Pakistan and urged him to press Islamabad for carrying out a probe into the trafficking a
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Sikh peer quits BBC Radio programme for censoring his address
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
London, [UK], Oct 4 (ANI): 87-year-old Sikh peer Lord Singh, who is popularly known as Indarjit Singh to his listeners, has accused BBC of "prejudice and intolerance" after it tried to prevent him from broadcasting an item commemorating an executed Sikh guru who had opposed the forced conver
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31st International Conference on Sindh held in London
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
London [UK], Sept 29 (ANI): The World Sindhi Congress (WSC) on Saturday hosted an international conference on Sindh in London, where the participants highlighted issues such as enforced disappearances of activists, human rights violations and forced conversion of religious minorities in P
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Sindhi Foundation to hold event during UNGA session to raise awareness aga
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
New York [US], Sept 25 (ANI): A US-based Sindhi organisation will hold an event to raise awareness against the abduction and forced conversion of thousands of young Sindhi girls to Islam in Pakistan during the ongoing United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) session in New York on Thursday.
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