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Hindu marriage law

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There is good news for Pakistan’s Hindus. Seven decades after the creation of Pakistan, its parliament has worked out a mechanism to register marriages between Hindus in the country. On Monday, the Hindu Marriage Act was approved by the National Assembly Standing Committee on Law and Justice. The bill is now expected to be cleared […]


Minorities seek steps to check ‘forced conversion, marriages’

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LARKANA: Speakers at a seminar on ‘Rights of minority’ called for legislation and other measure on an urgent basis to curb kidnapping, forced conversion and rape of women belonging to religious minorities. They also highlighted other major issues being faced by them for long but have remained unresolved so far. The seminar was organised by […]


Protest over ‘excesses’ against minorities

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BADIN: Activists of the Hindu-Christian Party along with those of the Quami Awami Tehreek on Saturday held a rally against what they described as the government’s failure to protect minorities from kidnapping for ransom, killings on communal grounds and abduction of girls for forced conversion. They rally set off from the Tando Bango bus stand […]


Hindus demand end to atrocities against them

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Karachi: The All Hindu Rights Organisation held a seminar at Karachi Press Club on Sunday against the atrocities being meted out to the Hindu community in Sindh, particularly forced conversion after kidnapping. Speaking on the occasion, Manohar Lal, Jay Parkash, Qamar Bhatti, Riaz Chandio and others said religious extremism was on the rise in the […]