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Amjad Ayub Mirza exposes systemic persecution of religious minorities in P
Updated : 9 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Amjad Ayub Mirza highlights rising violence and discrimination against religious minorities in Pakistan, including forced conversions, attacks, and exclusion from jobs and education. The report shows minorities face systemic persecution backed by laws and social attitudes, making life dif
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Incidents are very serious, action must be taken: Maha CM on committee aga
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
Speaking about the Maharashtra government forming a committee against 'love jihad', Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said that these incidents were "very serious and action must be taken."
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Pakistani Hindu Senator Danesh Palyani raises alarm over forced conversion
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
"You see in Sindh, bandits are forcefully converting our Hindu girls to Islam. Bandits in mud forts areas kidnap people but Bandits in settled areas are forcing girls to convert their religion. However, Pakistan gives us the right that no one should force anyone else to convert," the lead
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Sindhi nationalist raises voice against forced conversion of Hindu girls
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
Abro highlighted the alarming trend of Sindhi Hindu girls being forcibly converted and married off to Muslim men, often under the influence of extremist figures in the country. He criticized the judiciary for siding with individuals accused of such actions and called for justice for victi
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UN experts lambast Pakistan for failing to stop forced conversions, marria
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
According to the same UN press release the experts expressed concern that forced marriages and religious conversions of girls from religious minorities which have been coerced are validated by the courts, often invoking religious law to justify keeping victims with their abductors rather tha
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Pakistan: 3 booked for forcibly marrying minor girl, converting her to Isl
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
A case has been filed against three accused for forcibly converting and marrying an 11-year-old non-Muslim girl in the Ferozwala area of Sheikhupura district.
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Protesters outside European Parliament raise chants on abuse of blasphemy
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
The European Pakistani Christian Action Committee held a protest outside the European Parliament, raising issues including the abuse of blasphemy laws, a culture of impunity, discrimination, incitement of violence in the name of religion, coerced faith conversions and forced child marriages
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Belgium: Protestors demand suspension of Pakistan's GSP status for next fo
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
The protestors demanded that the Pakistan government must take tangible steps to improve religious freedom conditions and state of minorities’ rights in Pakistan, and the European Union must not extend Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) Plus status for another four years unless Pakistan
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Minority Rights March held in Pakistan against forced conversions
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
The march emphasized the need for legislation that criminalizes forced conversion, a concern that has troubled minorities for a long. The participants came from Hindu, Christian, Sikh and other religious minority communities in Pakistan.
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Pakistan: Protests rallies held in different cities of Sindh against force
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Protest rallies and demonstrations were held in different cities of Sindh against the forced conversions in the region, an official release of Jeay Sindh Freedom Movement said.
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Pakistan: Report highlights kidnapping, forced marriages of minorities
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
he religious minorities, mainly Hindu and Christian women and children continue to be oppressed and persecuted, at the same time facing the risk of being kidnapped, forcibly converted, raped, and coerced into a "marriage" with an older or elderly man, Gatestone Institute reported.
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World Sindhi Congress event: Speakers discuss enforced disappearances, for
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
On June 30, the World Sindhi Congress held an interactive discussion in Peterborough, Canada, titled “Current Situation in Pakistan - What the Oppressed Nations Should Do?"
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