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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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Grave human rights violations continue non-stop in Pakistan
Updated : 2 years, 12 months ago IST
Grave human rights violations continued unabated, including enforced disappearances, torture, crackdowns on peaceful protests, attacks against journalists and violence against religious minorities and other marginalised groups in Pakistan, reported Amnesty International South Asia.
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Target killing of minorities continues unabated in Pakistan, Christian man
Updated : 2 years, 12 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: Content against minorities in textbooks has increased, says repo
Updated : 2 years, 12 months ago IST
The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) issued the "Human Rights Observer 2023", an annual fact sheet. The report covers five key issues impacting religious minorities including discrimination in the education system, the prevalence of forced faith conversions, abuse of blasphemy laws, the estab
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Pakistan: Human Rights Observer report highlights increase in content agai
Updated : 2 years, 12 months ago IST
The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) on Thursday issued the "Human Rights Observer 2023", an annual fact sheet. The report covers five key issues impacting religious minorities including discrimination in the education system, the prevalence of forced faith conversions, abuse of blasphemy law
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Religious extremism on minority rights needs to be addressed: Internationa
Updated : 3 years ago IST
"I would like to say that we are happy to be resourceful individuals in our capacity to eliminate this crisis in the future. This matter which is right in front of us today is not a mere topic of discussion, but something that is really out there in the world that needs to be addressed, so i
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Pakistan: Hindu Panchayat stages rally for return of missing youth
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Talking to the reporters, the Panchayat members expressed their concern over the wellbeing of the missing man and inefficiency of the Sukkur police in finding a clue to the victim.
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Sindh Human Rights Commission recommends action against police officer for
Updated : 3 years ago IST
After the Sindh Human Rights Commission intervened in the matter of the wrongful actions against religious freedom, the police officer was suspended as per the disciplinary action.
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Mission 2024: Nanni Modi campaign, other programs part of BJP's outreach
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Bharatiya Janata Party is mulling a special outreach campaign, in Kerala, in a bid to woo minorities and mount pressure on the State government.
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China's repression in Tibet, Xinjiang raised at UNHRC
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Aaron Magunna said: "The recent report by the Special Rapporteur on minority issues has once again put the spotlight on the discrimination many minorities face in the world today."
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India slams Pakistan at UNHRC, warns against spreading propaganda, attempt
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Indian diplomat said that the democracy of India is mature enough to address any issues, including those instigated from outside. He said that minorities in Pakistan face blasphemy laws, systemic persecution, discrimination, denial of basic rights and freedoms, enforced disappearances and ki
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Pakistan: Minority Rights Commission head says property of minorities wort
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Shoaib Sadal told the two-judge bench headed by Justice Ijazul Ahsan that the provincial governments were not cooperating with the Commission with regard to the details of assets.
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