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"Situation is critical, dire": UK MP Jim Shannon condemns religious persec
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
"Minority students are forced to study Islamic content, isolating them further in a society already fraught with prejudice. Economic discrimination compounds those challenges. Non-Muslims are often relegated to low-status jobs with limited opportunity for social or professional mobility. Tha
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EU speaks for religious minorities in Pakistan
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 18 (ANI): Amid the recent surge in mob violence and religious persecution in Pakistan, the EU Parliament last month called for a review of Pakistan's GSP+ status, citing concerns over the latter's blasphemy laws and poor rights record.
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Delhi Sikhs protest abduction, forcible conversion of granthi's daughter i
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 21 (ANI): Members of the Sikh community in Delhi staged a protest outside the Pakistan High Commission here on Monday against the abduction of the Panja Sahib head granthi's daughter in Pakistan and her forcible conversion to Islam.
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If Hindus will not come to India where else they will go, Italy, asks Redd
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Jan 2 (ANI): Union Minister G Kishan Reddy said here on Wednesday that Hindus facing religious persecution in Pakistan and Bangladesh will naturally "come to India" and not go to "Italy".
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Those opposing Citizenship Act are anti-Dalits: JP Nadda
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 29 (ANI): In a veiled attack at the opposition parties, BJP working president JP Nadda on Sunday said those who are opposing the amended Citizenship Act are 'anti-Dalits' while asserting that around 70 per cent of people who came to India due to religious persecution i
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BJP to reach out to SC community over CAA, explain how it has benefited Da
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 28 (ANI): To counter opposition over its protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act, BJP will hold a meeting on Sunday with Dalit community leaders and highlight how the new law has benefitted the community whose members have to come to India in large numbers af
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CAA to fulfill promises made by Gandhi, Nehru to victims of partition: Ker
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 22 (ANI): Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad Khan on Saturday said that Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) has been brought in place for fulfilling the promises made by Mahatma Gandhi and the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru to the victims of partition who were
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Sindhi Foundation to hold protest against forceful conversion of girls in
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], Sept 12 (ANI): In a bid to highlight religious persecution in Pakistan, a US-based Sindhi organisation is planning to hold a protest against abduction and forceful conversion of Hindu girls from the community during the upcoming United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) sess
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US-based minorities' body urges unity against religious persecution in Pak
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 19 (ANI): The rise of extremism and persecution of people based on faith and ethnicity is deplorable, said South Asia Minorities Alliance Foundation (SAMAF) chairman Nadeem Nusrat, calling for a united stand to set aside these differences.
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