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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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Pakistan: 6-year-old Hindu girl sexually assaulted
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Human rights organizations and activists in Pakistan have called for attention on social media to the case of a 6-year-old Hindu girl nicknamed Ritu (real name omitted for privacy reasons), which was abducted and sexually abused by two 23-year-old Muslim men while she was playing outdoors in
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Pak Hindu families forced to relocate amid blasphemy furore
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Hyderabad [Pakistan], August 23 (ANI): All Hindu families living in a six-storey building were forced to leave their apartments after an enraged mob attacked the building while trying to get hold of a man belonging to the Hindu minority community who was booked in an alleged case of blasp
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Pakistan: Police resort to tear gas shelling after angry mob creates unres
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Hyderabad [Pakistan], August 22 (ANI): Law enforcement agencies resorted to tear gas shelling and fired into the air in different areas of Hyderabad on Sunday after an enraged mob tried to get hold of a sanitary worker, belonging to the Hindu minority community booked in a fake case of blasp
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Parl panel wants 'illegitimate' child reference removed, law on guardiansh
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 8 (ANI): A Parliamentary Committee has raised strong objection to the term 'illegitimate' being used in the Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act (HMGA) and suggested the government omit the word, "as no child is illegitimate, asserting that "the law should be the sam
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Pakistan: Supreme Court summons govt body over 'forging of documents' for
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], November 16 (ANI): Pakistan Supreme Court on Tuesday summoned Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) over the alleged forging of the documents for the sale of a Hindu property in Karachi.
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Bangladesh communal violence: ISKCON calls upon Hasina govt to ensure mino
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Maryland [US], October 18 (ANI): Expressing shock over the recent series of violent attacks at Hindu minority in Bangladesh, the ISKCON called upon the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina government to take swift action to bring an end to the violence and demanded that perpetrators of the attacks s
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HC notice to Centre, DERC on plea seeking power connections for Pak Hindu
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 21 (ANI): The High Court on Tuesday issued notice to the Union of India, Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) and others on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking electricity connection for 200 "Hindu minority migrants families" currently living in
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Human rights activist writes to UN about Pak-sponsored terrorist attacks o
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], March 5 (ANI): Professor Fernand de Varennes, special rapporteur on minority issues on Tuesday has written a letter to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) informing about the Pakistan-sponsored terrorist attacks on the Hindu minority communi
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Sikh, Hindu refugees from Afghanistan based in India for 25-30 years deman
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Amritsar (Punjab) [India], July 28 (ANI): After the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) arranged for the safe return of 11 people belonging to the Sikh and Hindu minority community, members of few Sikh and Hindu families who migrated from Afghanistan to India 25-30 years back have demanded In
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MEA thanks Kabul for safe return of 11 Afghan Sikhs, Hindus
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 26 (ANI): The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Sunday thanked the Government of Afghanistan for extending necessary support for the safe return of 11 people belonging to the Sikh and Hindu minority community, including Nidan Singh Sachdeva, who was kidnapped by t
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Pakistani hate song exposes open bigotry for Hindu minorities over temple
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 12 (ANI): Ever since work on Islamabad's first Hindu temple began earlier this month, many Pakistanis have been on a spree threatening their government of violence and spewing hate against Hindus.
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