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20% decline in religious minorities in Pakistan, Bangladesh: Shah in RS af
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 11 (ANI): After tabling the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday told the Rajya Sabha that there has been a 20 per cent decline in the population of religious minorities in each Pakistan and Bangladesh.
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China chides 'super liar' US over remarks on Uighurs
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Beijing [China], Dec 11 (ANI): Calling the US a "super liar", China lambasted Washington over the latter's remarks on human rights abuse of the minority Uighurs in the Asian country.
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Sirsa writes to Amit Shah, expresses concern over treatment of minorities
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 10 (ANI): Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Manjinder Singh Sirsa on Tuesday wrote a letter to Home Minister Amit Shah, expressing grave concern over the treatment of minorities in Pakistan and urged him to press Islamabad for carrying out a probe into the trafficking a
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'Inaccurate, unwarranted': India condemns USCIRF's statement on CAB
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 10 (ANI): Condemning the "inaccurate" and "unwarranted" comments made by US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) on Citizenship Amendment Bill that was passed in the Lok Sabha yesterday, India on Tuesday said that the Bill aims at providing expedited
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Pak says India's 'discriminatory' Citizenship Bill violates bilateral agre
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Dec 10 (ANI): Pakistan has decried the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Bill in the Lok Sabha terming it a "discriminatory legislation", which is in complete contravention of various bilateral agreements between the two neighbours, particularly the one concerning se
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JDU, BJD and LJP extend support to Citizenship (Amendment) Bill in LS
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 9 (ANI): JDU MP Rajeev Ranjan Singh on Monday said that his party will support the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill and considers it a right decision of giving Indian citizenship to persecuted minorities of Pakistan.
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No political agenda, CAB to liberate minorities of Pak, Bangladesh and Afg
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 9 (ANI): Home Minister Amit Shah informed the Parliament on Monday that there was no political agenda behind the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB), 2019, and said it will liberate minorities of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan from "torturous life".
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Citizenship (Amendment) Bill targets minority: Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), Dec 9 (ANI): Soon after the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB), 2019 was tabled and introduced in the lower house of parliament, leader of Congress in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Monday said that it is targeted against minorities of the Country.
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CAB not even .001% against minorities in the country, says Amit Shah as he
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 9 (ANI): Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday introduced contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 in Lok Sabha and said that it is not even .001 per cent against minorities in the country.
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China condemns US passing Uighur crackdown bill
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Beijing [China], Dec 4 (ANI): China on Wednesday came down heavily on the United States after the House of Representatives approved a bill that would require the Trump administration to toughen its response to Beijing's crackdown on its Muslim minority in Xinjiang, mostly ethnic Uighurs, who
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India slams Pak at UNHRC over its 'malicious propaganda' on Ayodhya verdic
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Nov 28 (ANI): India on Thursday lambasted Pakistan over its statement at the United Nations Human Rights Council on Supreme Court's verdict on Ayodhya land dispute case and asked the country to rather work constructively and positively for education and upliftment of
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Germany urges China to allow UN officials to Xinjiang
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Berlin [Germany], Nov 25 (ANI): Germany on Monday called on China to provide access to the UN human rights commissioner and international experts to Xinjiang province amid surfacing of evidence proving Chinese authorities inflicting atrocities on minorities Muslims community in the region.
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