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India at UN raps Pakistan over sexual violence against women ever since 19
Updated : 9 months ago IST
Punnoos, while delivering India's statement at the UN Security Council Open Debate on 'Conflict-Related Sexual Violence,' said that sexual crimes against women from minority communities in Pakistan continue even today, which is deplorable.
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"Despicable, yet entirely predictable": India slams Pakistan at UN for rak
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
Exercising its right to reply during the UN Security Council Debate on Women building peace in a changing environment, India called out Islamabad over the "deplorable" condition of women from minority communities in Pakistan.
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Minority Rights March held in Pakistan against forced conversions
Updated : 2 years, 9 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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Pak govt willing to join hands with radical elements to expand its objecti
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 23 (ANI): Pakistan's government in order to expand its own political objectives, is willing to join hands with radical elements without any due regard to the fate of the minorities, who are often at the receiving end of these extreme elements.
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Graves of minority Ahmadiyya community being desecrated in Pakistan
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 28 (ANI): Amid the already deteriorating condition of the minority communities in Pakistan, the country has gone below the belt with Ahmadiyyas as the graves of their dead are being dug up and their mortal remains being thrown away.
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Resentment in Ahmadiyya Community in Pakistan over killing of 35 yr old
Updated : 3 years, 12 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 24 (ANI): Ahmadiyya Muslim sect in Pakistan has once again brought to light the deep-rooted disdain for minority communities in the country with a recent incident in Okara district where a 35-year-old community member was killed.
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Acutely aware of challenges faced by minorities in Pakistan: UK Minister
Updated : 4 years ago IST
London [UK], May 18 (ANI): UK's Minister of State for Foreign Commonwealth and Development Affairs Tariq Mahmood Ahmad on Tuesday said that he is "acutely aware of the challenges faced by minority communities in Pakistan" and noted that these issues are raised in a "constructive way" with Is
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At UN, Baloch activist raises concern about rights violation in Pakistan
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], March 23 (ANI): Munir Mengal, a Baloch political and human rights activist on Tuesday raised concerns about the violation of the ongoing rights against minority communities in Pakistan.
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Minorities' protests more frequent, widespread in Pakistan: Report
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], December 18 (ANI): Amid the already deteriorating conditions of the minority communities in Pakistan, the protests in the country has become more frequent and widespread, said a Canada-based think tank, adding that religious minorities in the country are on the edge and
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Members of civil society, minority groups in Pakistan's Sindh province hol
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], December 11 (ANI): Civil Society organisations and members of minority communities in Pakistan's Sindh province held rallies against 'forced conversion' to mark the occasion of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Day and demanded that the government to enact and eff
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Pakistan intensifies digital crackdown on minorities like Ahmadiyyas
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], December 11 (ANI): Amid the already deteriorating condition of the minority communities in Pakistan, the country's telecommunication regulator has begun an intuitional crackdown on minorities like Ahmadiyyas.
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Baloch rights group holds march in Islamabad against abduction, torture by
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], February 18 (ANI): In a bid to highlight the plight of minority communities in Pakistan, a rights group -- Baloch Voice of Missing Persons (BVMP) has been holding demonstrations in Islamabad over the issue of forced abduction, torture, and harassment of the people of
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