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Sikh community in Pakistan faces abuse, atrocities: Report
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
The Sikh community in Pakistan is facing threats, bringing the minority community into the forefront, Khalsa Vox reported, adding that former jathedar Giani Harpreet Singh, in a statement, attested to the longstanding persecution faced by Sikhs in the country.
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Pakistan: Report cites rise in persecution of minority Hindu community
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
The Hindu community, which happens to be a minority in Pakistan, are undergoing a series of threats and persecution, with killings, kidnappings and attacks on religious site being a common affair in the country, The News on Sunday reported.
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Pak: 150-year-old Hindu temple demolished in Karachi
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
The Hindu community in Karachi on Saturday morning woke to find their 150-year-old-holy shrine Mari Mata Temple demolished in Karachi's Soldier Bazaar, reported Dawn.
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“Left, Congress instilling fear among minorities on UCC": Uniform Minister
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Sunday accused Kerala Chief Minister Pinaravi Vijayan-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) government and the Congress of instilling fear in the minority community on the proposed Uniform Civil Code.
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Chamba murder: Former Himachal CM Jairam Thakur stopped from meeting victi
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
After the murder of 21-year-old Manohar, a Dalit man in Chamba who was in an alleged relationship with a girl from the minority community last week, political bickering has escalated in the state. Section 144 and prohibitory orders have been enforced in the Kihar police station area of Ch
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Rajasthan: Protest against allotment of land for minority community in Jai
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
A protest has been held by the people against the land allotted to minority communities by the housing board in Jaipur's Sanganer area.
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Pakistan's minority Hindus unaware of law pertaining to women, don't avail
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Little has been done to let the country's largest minority community, a minuscule 1.8 per cent of the 220 million population, know of the existence of the law that took 69 years to enact, leading to its 'negligible' use. The law was signed into law six years ago, Asian Lite reported citing D
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Vicious cycle of violence, suppression continues in Pakistan: Report
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Recently, on May 4, six teachers, belonging to a minority community, were killed. According to Geo News, several teachers of the same school were killed in two separate incidents in Upper Kurram Tehsil of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
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Activist slams Pak FM Zardari over mass killing of teachers in Khyber Pakh
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Condemning Zardari over the mass killing of Shia teachers in Pakistan, Shujaat Ali Quadri, Chairman of the Muslim Students Organisation in India, asked why his governemnt and the security agencies could not protect the minority community in Pakistan.
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Minorities facing persecution, repression in Pakistan
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Not only the Hindus, Christians and Sikhs but Shias and Ahamdiyyas also are facing continuous suppression.
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"Then who killed them?": Sharad Pawar after Gujarat court acquits all accu
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
A day after a Gujarat court acquitted all the accused of the Naroda Gam case in which 11 people were killed from the minority community, Nationalist Congress chief Sharad Pawar on Friday questioned, "Then who killed those people?"
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2002 Gujarat riots: Ahmedabad court acquits all accused including BJP's Ma
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
A special court in Ahmedabad on Thursday acquitted all the accused, including BJP MLA Maya Kodnani, in the 2002 post-Godhra riots, Naroda Gam case, which killed 11 people from the minority community.
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