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Pakistan: Hindu doctor tortured by PPP leader during local body polls
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Sindh [Pakistan], July 2 (ANI): A Hindu doctor in the Tharparkar district of Sindh province was allegedly tortured by a leader of the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party during local bodies' election in Islamkot on June 26.
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India slams Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif's tweet on minority rights
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 6 (ANI): India on Monday slammed Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif over a tweet on "minority rights" and said that Pakistan itself is a "serial violator of minority rights".
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Activists raise issue of minority rights in Pakistan during protest outsid
Updated : 3 years, 12 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], March 16 (ANI): Political activists and human rights defenders participated in a protest in front of the United Nations office in Geneva on Wednesday to raise the issue of persecution of minorities in Pakistan.
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Sindh rights group calls for anti-Pakistan protest in Washington on Mar 23
Updated : 3 years, 12 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 16 (ANI): Jeay Sindh Freedom Movement (JSFM), a minority rights group, has called for the joint car rally and protest on March 23 in Washington DC, US.
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Minority rights group releases charter of demands against forced conversio
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], March 8 (ANI): A Christian rights organisation organized a press conference on the theme "Break the Bias and Forced Conversions in Pakistan" in connection with International Women's Day on Monday.
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Sindhi Foundation announces protest march in Canada to highlight minority
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], January 27 (ANI): Sindhi Foundation, a Washington-based organization has announced that it begin a "Long Walk" in May this year to raise awareness on several human rights concerns of religious and ethnic minorities in Pakistan.
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'Human Rights Focus Pakistan' raises concerns over violation of minority r
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Faisalabad [Pakistan], December 11 (ANI): Human Rights Focus Pakistan (HRFP) on Friday raised issues concerned with human rights violations of minorities in Pakistan, marking International Human Rights Day.
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Congress leader Deora says CAA a political gimmick as rules not yet framed
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], October 19 (ANI): Congress leader Milind Deora has said that the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 was a political gimmick to win elections in India and was not intended to safeguard religious minority rights in the subcontinent as the government has not yet not
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Pakistani rights group joins hands with Taiwanese NGO to raise minority ri
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Faisalabad [Pakistan], January 30 (ANI): The Human Rights Focus Pakistan (HRFP), a human rights group based in Faisalabad, has joined hands with the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy (TFD) to raise the issue of rights for minorities in Pakistan on international platforms.
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Pakistan's minority rights activist attacked in S Korea seeks help for med
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], January 7 (ANI): A Pakistani minority rights activist and lawyer attacked with a knife in South Korea on Tuesday has sought help for his medical treatment.
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Working in misogynist society for the last 10 years: PoK leader after hara
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], November 10 (ANI): Maria Iqbal Tarana, a former head of the women's commission of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) has alleged harassment against an official at Pakistan's President House, adding that she has been working in "misogynist society for the last 10 years".
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Woman activist lashes out at judicial system in Pakistan for not protectin
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
London [UK], September 12 (ANI): London-based Pakistani human rights activist and spokeswoman for Justice for Minorities in Pakistan Anila Gulzar has lashed out at the judicial system in Pakistan and condemned the death sentence awarded to a 37-year-old Christian man, Asif Pervaiz, in Lahore
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