RAWALPINDI, March 1: The revenue department of the city district government has accepted the claim of the Hindu community that their cremation ground at Tipu Road was 10 kanals and 17 marlas, which has now shrunk to just two kanals.
Police also reported attacks on several Hindu homes and temples by Islamists in the southern Noakhali district.
Security forces had been braced for trouble ahead of the verdict against Sayedee, who reacted to the judgment by saying it had been influenced by “atheists” and pro-government protesters who have been demanding his execution.
“He himself shot dead six Hindus and took part in a genocide,” prosecutor Shahidur Rahman told AFP.
Azad, who presented a widely watched show on Islam and Shariat for years on private and state-run television channels, is a former leading light of Bangladesh’s largest Islamic party, Jamaat-e-Islami.
There is not a single crematorium (Shamshaan Ghat) for the Hindu and Sikh communities in the whole Khyber Pakhtunkhwa due to which they are forced to bury the bodies of their near and dear ones.
CHAKWAL, Nov 4: After being restored to life, the pond at Katas Temple greeted the first flock of Hindu pilgrims.
The sacred pond was specially showered with rose petals as pilgrims drank its water and filled bottles to take home.
DENPASAR: Construction workers in Bali have discovered what is thought to be the biggest ancient Hindu temple ever found on the Indonesian island, archaeologists said.
The workers were digging a drain in the island’s capital Denpasar at a Hindu study centre when they came across the remains of the stone temple.
ISLAMABAD: A group of Pakistani Hindus arriving in the Indian state of Rajhasthan says that they will not return to their home country, according to a report published by the BBCUrdu.
TEARS rolled down my eyes when I read reports about the Hindu migration to India. The continuation of lawlessness, abductions, forced-conversions and life threats, it seems so, had compelled the Hindus to think about abandoning their centuries-old established homes behind and move to India, from a land that was purely created to safeguard a Muslim Minority who felt insecure in a Hindu-dominated society.
Last week, Justice Dost Muhammad Khan of the Peshawar High Court declared that extra police security should be provided to the Hindu community in Peshawar, whose temple was recently vandalised. The ravaging of religious structures is but one way that minorities suffer rampant socioeconomic discrimination in Pakistan in silence. Thus, while the chief justice of the high court took a courageous step in requiring protection for minorities, there is a ...
PESHAWAR, May 30: Police investigators have rubbished the reports of the people from the outside attacking a Hindu temple in Gor Khuttri area of Peshawar on May 20 and blamed the ransacking of the place of worship on strife between two groups of local Hindu community.
Elder of Hindu community Ramesh claims that seven to eight unidentified people ransacked the temple and set fire to the holy books and when ...
ISLAMABAD, May 17: The Supreme Court on Thursday disposed of a petition moved by the Pakistan Hindu Council calling for a specific law against elements who lure people into changing their religion.
A three-judge bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Jawad S. Khawaja and Justice Khilji Arif Hussain disposed of the petition when the government drew the attention of the court towards Article 20 of the Constitution which ...
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought a response from the federal government pertaining to the law addressing the issue of forced conversions, DawnNews reported.
The apex court also issued release orders for the three newly-converted Muslim girls.
A three-member bench of the court comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain and Justice Tariq Parvez heard the case pertaining to the alleged forced conversion of the three ...
LAHORE: Prof Ashok Kumar is not afraid of taking a prominent stance on the Rinkle Kumari issue.
Fear, he says, is secondary compared to what is happening to the Hindu community in Pakistan, in particular Sindh. “We can’t just sit back and watch what our community is going through,” he says.
The recent case of Rinkle Kumari is not altogether an uncommon occurrence. Several young Hindu girls have been ...
KARACHI: Demanding immediate recovery of “kidnapped” Hindu girl Asha Kumari and social worker and religious figure Gangaram Motiani, a large number of Hindu community and civil society members staged a demonstration at the Karachi Press Club on Sunday.
THE Hindu Gymkhana was the first public building in Karachi to boldly adopt the revival of the Mughal architectural style. It was established in 1925 on a plot of land measuring 47,000 square yards.
The Hindu community and Seth Ramgopal Gourdhanandh Mohatta contributed money for its construction. The building was designed by the first – known Muslim architect, Agha Ahmed Hussain. Its plan and massing were based on the tomb ...
However, the Hindu communities’ ancient ties to the land, their integration into Sindhi society and their wealth allows them to work and live in northern Sindh relatively free from the systematic repression that Christians in south Punjab or Ahmadis across Pakistan suffer.
Discrimination against and outright repression of Hindus is far more pronounced in south-east Sindh, where the vast majority of Hindus in the province, many of them lower-caste peasants ...
KARACHI, March 19: While the Supreme Court had directed the Sindh police chief over a week ago to take all necessary steps for the recovery of three Hindu girls and to produce them in court on March 26, one of them, Asha, has not been recovered so far, said her uncle, Sunder Mal.
KARACHI: The girl who has become embroiled in a conversion controversy was on Monday sent to a state-run shelter by the Sindh High Court with the direction to its administration not to allow her parents or the man who claims to be her husband to meet her till March 26 when she will be produced before the Supreme Court.
PESHAWAR, March 8: The Pakistan Sikh Youth Council (PSYC) has expressed concern over reports about alleged forced conversion of Hindu girls to Islam in Sindh province, requesting the chief justice of Pakistan to take sou motu notice of the issue.
QUETTA:The incidents of kidnapping for ransom and other heinous crimes in Balochistan have been increased; DawnNews reports on Monday that in the past three months, 53 people have been kidnapped from only three districts.
KARACHI, Feb 22: The Sindh High Court on Wednesday issued notices to the chief secretary, minority affairs secretary and others in a petition against alleged irregularities in the distribution of funds among under-privileged members of the Hindu community on the occasion of their religious festival of Diwali.
This gallery comprises of images, displaying Hindu devotees from various parts of the world; each celebrating a distinctive festival and ritual. — Photos by Agencies
This gallery comprises of images, displaying Hindu devotees from various parts of the world; each celebrating a distinctive festival and ritual. — Photos by Agencies
