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Pakistan: Amid spike in violence people migrate from Wadh to other areas i
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Due to the ongoing gunfight between two competing groups of the Mengal tribe in the Wadh area of Khuzdar district, which has resulted in three deaths and 10 injuries, many people, including members of minorities, have relocated to other parts of Balochistan, reported Dawn.
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Karnataka govt planning to increase loan amount given to minority students
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Housing and Minorities Welfare Minister Zameer Ahmed Khan has said that the government is thinking to increase the loan amount given to meritorious minority students from three lakh to five lakh rupees.
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Pakistan: Rights organisation criticises plight of non-Muslims
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
The speakers "condemned" the state's role in the rise of violence against minorities, as well as its inability to safeguard marginalised groups in society
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NIA raids 8 locations in J-K terror conspiracy hatched to target minoritie
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday conducted raids at eight locations in Jammu and Kashmir pertaining to a case of criminal conspiracy to carry out terrorist and subversive activities hatched by the cadres of various proscribed organizations and their affiliates for carrying o
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Pakistan's interim PM reacts to vandalisation of churches, says 'stern act
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Pakistan's interim PM Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar has vowed to take action against those who violate the law and target minorities.
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Church attacked in Pakistan's Faisalabad over blasphemy allegations
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
In yet another attack on religious minorities in Pakistan, a church has been vandalised and set ablaze in Faisalabad district, according to Lahore-based Bishop Azad Marshall.
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Karnataka minister felicitates freedom fighter Gundu Rao Desai at his res
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Karnataka Housing, Minorities Welfare and In-Charge Minister of Vijayanagar District Zameer Ahmed Khan on Tuesday visited the residence of freedom fighter Gundu Rao Desai in Kamalapura and felicitated him.
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Pakistan: No functional temple in Narowal for Hindus, people travel miles
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
The members of the Hindu community, residing in the Narowal district of Pakistan have to face a lot of difficulties and travel long distances to perform their religious and cultural rituals, including marriage and death rites because of the absence of any functional temple in the district.
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Belgium: Protestors demand suspension of Pakistan's GSP status for next fo
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
The protestors demanded that the Pakistan government must take tangible steps to improve religious freedom conditions and state of minorities’ rights in Pakistan, and the European Union must not extend Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) Plus status for another four years unless Pakistan
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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: Remove bar on non-Muslims becoming President, PM, demands Minori
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Alliance chairman, Akmal Bhatti, while addressing a 'Jinnah's Pakistan public rally' said misuse of sensitive religious/blasphemy laws should stop in the country and there has to be the provision of free and fair justice to the victims.
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Pak: Sindh High Rights Commission expresses concerns over attacks against
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Sindh Human Rights Commission (SHRC) expressed concerns over the attacks against minorities, including attacks on places of worship and kidnappings and recommended the district administration initiate appropriate measures among non-Muslim communities to eradicate the sense of insecurity eman
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