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Pakistan: Minor Hindu girl's "forced conversion" sparks tense debate in Si
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Pakistan, which is already struggling with the adverse political and economic situation and continues to bear the brunt of forced marriages and conversions
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Forced marriages, conversions continue in Pakistan: Report
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
According to the data compiled by one of Christian Solidarity Worldwide's (CSW) local partners in Pakistan, the Centre for Social Justice, 202 incidents were recorded and documented between 2021-2022. Almost all of them took place within the Sindh and Punjab provinces.
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World Sindhi Congress pledges to strengthen community's struggle for right
Updated : 2 years, 10 months 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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Pakistan: Rights Activists stress to curb forced conversion, underage marr
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
While addressing the presser on Tuesday, NMAP Chairman Lala Robin Daniel said that the system has collapsed and minor girls' respect and dignity are at stake due to a lack of implementation of laws and malpractices.
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Situation of women, girls in Pakistan is critical: Report
Updated : 2 years, 10 months 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 : 2 years, 10 months 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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Pakistan: Sindhis hold protest rally against forced conversions of Hindu g
Updated : 2 years, 11 months 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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Pakistan: Businesses remain shut in Diplo town over "forced" conversion of
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
All business and commercial activities in the Diplo town of Tharparkar region of Pakistan remained suspended on Sunday due to a strike observed by people, Dawn reported. The call for strike was given by the Naujawan Ittehad and supported by the local chapters of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf
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Pakistan: Minorities take out protest rally in front of Sindh Assembly aga
Updated : 2 years, 11 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 : 2 years, 11 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 : 2 years, 11 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: Dalit group takes out rally for solution to problems of forced c
Updated : 2 years, 11 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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