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SBS Foundation marches to Pak High Commission
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 10 (ANI): As many as 250 volunteers of a non-profit organisation, Shaheed Bhagat Singh Sewa Dal (SBS), on the occasion of International Human Rights Day on Monday marched towards the High Commission of Pakistan here and handed over a memorandum demanding justice, freed
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Pakistani Christians demand equal rights, abolition of blasphemy laws
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Sep 23 (ANI): Pakistani Christians living in Europe and the United Kingdom gathered in front of Palais Wilson, the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva, and demanded justice and equal rights for the minorities in Pakistan.
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Nadeem Nusrat raises concern over plight of Pak's religious minorities
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington, D.C. [USA], Jul 14 (ANI): South Asia Minorities Alliance Foundation (SAMAF) chairman Nadeem Nusrat has said that religious and ethnic minorities in Pakistan are facing systematic persecution at the hands of extremist groups, who clearly seem to enjoy Pakistani "deep state's" patr
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Pak minorities being persecuted by Islamic terrorists
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
Quetta [Pakistan]/Geneva [Switzerland], May 5 (ANI): Minorities in Pakistan are facing persecution by the state and non-state actors, says Dr.Iftikhar Ayaz, Ambassador of the UK-based Universal Peace Federation.
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Human Rights Focus Pakistan condemns brutalities against religious minorit
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Faisalabad [Pakistan], September 23 (ANI):Human Rights Focus Pakistan (HRFP) in collaboration with Global Human Rights Defense (GHRD) and CRMP held demonstration after Press conference to highlight the problems faced by the religious minorities in Pakistan due to Blasphemy Allegations, force
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'International community should take Pak to task over persecution of Chris
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 19 (ANI): Dr. Mario Silva, a former member of the Canadian Parliament and Executive Director of the International Forum for Rights and Security (IFFRAS), has appealed to the international community to intervene in the issue of the persecution of Christian mino
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#StopPakistan campaign launched to highlight plight of women and minoritie
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland] Sept 17 (ANI): #StopPakistan campaign has been launched here to highlight the plight of women and minorities in Pakistan.
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Altaf Hussain can seek India's support: Pak Christian leader
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Philadelphia [USA], April 24 (ANI): Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) founder Altaf Hussain can appeal to India for legal assistance for minorities in Pakistan under the Liaquat-Nehru Pact, said the president of Pakistan Christian congress (PCC), Dr. Nazir S Bhatti recently.
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Pak PM Nawaz Sharif calls out party leader for being 'overweight'
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], Mar. 15 (ANI): While delivering his Holi address in Karachi, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif spoke on a range of issues including protection of minorities in Pakistan, but the speech took an awkward turn when he brought PML(N) leader Khialdas Kohistani into the conversation a
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Pak human rights violation: JKIPA calls on UN to send 'fact finding&#
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Mar. 14 (ANI): United Kashmir People's National Party (UKPNP) chairman Shaukat Ali Kashmiri has said that Jammu and Kashmir International People's Alliance (JKIPA) is seriously concerned about the massive human rights violations committed against minorities i
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Plight of minorities in Pakistan discussed at UNHCR
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Sept.22 (ANI): The European Organisation for Pakistani Minorities last week organised a side event titled "Plight of Pakistani Minorities" at the 33rd session of the UN Human Rights Council.
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