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Pakistani forces compel Baloch drivers to march through desert: Report
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 16 (ANI): Pakistani forces allegedly forced several drivers from the ethnic minority areas of Balochistan to abandon their vehicles and march through the desert to their homes in the Chagai district near the border with Afghanistan, local media reported.
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Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi aims to promote 'Unity in Diversity' in country
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 14 (ANI): On the occasion of Mahavir Jayanti, Union Minister of Minority Affairs, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, on Thursday vouched for promoting 'Unity in Diversity' in the country.
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Uttar Pradesh: Muslim cleric asks minority community to drop anti-BJP tag
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Bareilly (Uttar Pradesh) [India], April 14 (ANI): National General Secretary of All India Tanzeem Ulema-e-Islam Maulana Shahabuddin Rizvi has called upon the Muslim community in Uttar Pradesh to stop supporting the Samajwadi Party and explore other alternatives and also drop the anti-BJP
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Cases of enforced disappearances continue unabated in Pakistan
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 13 (ANI): Cases of disappearances, especially from ethnic minority areas continue unabated in Pakistan with a commission recording a total of 158 missing persons for the year 2022.
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Owaisi accuses Shivraj Singh Chouhan of bias against minority community
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], April 13 (ANI): All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday slammed Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan for demolishing the houses of the accused involved in the violence during Ram Navami procession in Kharg
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SC issues notice to Centre on plea seeking to stop harassment of particula
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 11 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Monday issued a notice to the Centre on a petition alleging that there is a trend of doubting the citizenship of a particular community of Assam. The petition seeks a stop to the harassment of the said community.
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NV Subhash condemns attack on BJP leader Mohammad Anwar's residence for su
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Vikarabad (Telangana) [India], April 10 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party Spokesperson NV Subhash on Saturday condemned tha attack on party's Minority Morcha leader Mohammad Anwar's residence for allegedly giving a statement in support of triple talaq in Vikarabad district of Telangana.
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MHA tells RS minority killings in Kashmir valley peaked in 2021
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 6 (ANI): The killing of people belonging to minority communities in Jammu and Kashmir was at its peak in 2021 with 11 deaths in different terrorist attacks, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) stated in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.
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Pakistan: Chinese workers trafficking minority community girls in garb of
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 30 (ANI): The increased inflow of Chinese workers into Pakistan for projects related to the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has resulted in the country's girls, especially from the minority Christian community, increasingly becoming targets of human traffi
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Hindu community not in majority in several districts: Assam CM
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Guwahati (Assam) [India], March 29 (ANI): Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday said that the Muslim community is in majority in the state and cannot be considered a minority in the northeastern state anymore, adding that Hindus are in minority in several districts.
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Jaishankar discusses aspirations of Sri Lankan Tamils with political leade
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], March 28 (ANI): External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar met with members of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) and Tamil Progressive Alliance (TPA) on Monday and discussed the aspirations of the Sri Lankan Tamils in the country.
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States can declare a community minority, Centre tells Supreme Court
Updated : 4 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 28 (ANI): The Central government has told the Supreme Court that certain States, where Hindus or other communities are less in number, can declare them as minorities within their own territories, to enable them to set up and administer their own institutions.
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