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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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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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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, 9 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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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, 10 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: 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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