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Pakistan witnesses unprecedented rise in attacks and arrests against Shia
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 18 (ANI): Pakistan has witnessed an unprecedented rise in attacks and arrests against its Shia minority, who make up between 15 per cent and 20 per cent of the Sunni-majority country, a media report said on Thursday.
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SC notice to Karnataka govt against appointment of only one Muslim chairma
Updated : 4 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 17 (ANI): The Supreme Court has sought a response from the Karnataka government on a plea challenging the appointment of only one member from the Muslim community to the post of chairman of State Minority Development Corporation.
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CM Himanta Sarma claims Assam's Muslim population now 35 pc, no longer min
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Guwahati (Assam) [India], March 16 (ANI): Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that Muslims account for 35 per cent of the total population of the state and they can no longer be called a minority community now.
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Activists raise issue of minority rights in Pakistan during protest outsid
Updated : 4 years 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 : 4 years 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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NHRC directs J-K administration to take action on complaint about targeted
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New Delhi [India], March 16 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Tuesday directed the Jammu and Kashmir administration to take appropriate action on a complaint moved by a Supreme Court lawyer seeking direction to provide compensation/damages to the families of four civilian
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Persecution of Shia community in Pakistan continues, says report
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 15 (ANI): The bomb attack on a Shia mosque on March 4 in Peshawar, capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has once again thrown light on the plight of Pakistan's minority communities.
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Parties convene Jirga to defend rights of pashtuns in Pakistan
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Bannu [Pakistan], March 12 (ANI): To protest for the rights of ethnic minority Pashtuns and to discuss the issues faced by them, many parties in Pakistan's Bannu city convened a jirga on Friday.
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Women's day: Pakistan rights group protests against forceful conversions o
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Islamabad [Paksitan], March 9 (ANI): Observing International Women's Day 2022 in collaboration with Global Human Rights Defense (GHRD), Human Rights Focus Pakistan (HRFP) on Tuesday raised concerns over the increasing incidents of forceful conversions of girls from religious minorities in Pa
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Minority rights group releases charter of demands against forced conversio
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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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Violence against Shia Muslims continues unabated in Pakistan
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 7 (ANI): Pakistan's largest Muslim minority, Shias Muslims are living under the shadow of fear post a terror attack by a suicide bomber on a Shia mosque in Peshawar during Friday prayers.
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Protest rally held in Taiwan ahead of Tibet National Uprising Day
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Taipei [Taiwan], March 6 (ANI): Ahead of the Tibetan Uprising Day, dozens of people took to the streets of Taipei on Saturday to call to bring attention to the atrocities on Tibetians and other minority groups by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
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