The issue was raised by Congresswoman Cythia Lummis, who in March travelled to Gujarat and met Modi as part of a three- member Congressional delegation during a hearing on religious freedom convened by the National Security Subcommittee of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
JODHPUR: Rajasthan government has urged the union government to accord Indian citizenship toPak-Hindu migrants camping at Jodhpur and Jaisalmer. The state even wrote a letter to the home ministry to relax conditions for the citizenship of the migrants.
The US`s leading Hindu advocacy organisation, the Hindu American Foundation, is rightly exhorting its followers to 'take back yoga and reclaim the intellectual property of their spiritual heritage'. This is entirely in order — an ancient tradition cannot be vulgarised into a callisthenic routine or stretched till it becomes devoid of meaning. The only way out is to accept and embrace its Hindu spiritual roots while opposing its crass vulgarisation.
AGARTALA: Tripura Police and BSF on Sunday enhanced deployment at the Akhaura integrated check post along the India-Bangladesh border to prevent BJP supporters from crossing into the neighbouring country on Monday. The state unit of BJP, which is protesting against attacks on religious minorities - mainly Hindus - in Bangladesh by fundamentalists, has planned an Agartala-Dhaka march from Monday morning.
DHAKA: Bangladesh police today arrested a sub-district chairman and local leader of fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami for inciting attacks on Hindus and temples in southeasternChittagong as minorities appeared to be targets of past two weeks of violence over 1971 war crimes trial.
"Police and (elite anti-crime Rapid Action Battalion) RAB teams jointly arrested Banshkhali upazila chairman Alamgir Kabir Chowdhury on charges of inciting violence against Hindu community and attack on their ...
DHAKA: Islamic activists have attacked dozens of Hindu temples and hundreds of homes across Bangladesh since an Islamist leader was sentenced to death for war crimes last month, a Hindu group said Wednesday.
JODHPUR: Two days after rain and hailstorm devastated the Pakistani Hindu migrants, they are piecing together their life again. The storm had uprooted their tent completely, where they have been staying since September last year. With no cover above their heads, they were compelled to take shelter in nearby under-construction structures.
NEW DELHI: India has taken up Pakistan, the reported incidents of persecution, abduction andintimidation of Hindus and Sikhs in that country, parliament was told Wednesday.
"(The) government has seen reports of desecration and vandalization of Hindu temples and gurudwaras in Pakistan," minister of state for home M Ramachandran told the Rajya Sabha.
JODHPUR: Nearly a month after chief minister Ashok Gehlot visited the camp of Pakistani Hindu migrants and assured them of all help, they continue to fend for themselves in the open. Though these migrants have been staying here for the past three months, none from the administration has turned up to help them.
INDORE: The number of Pakistani Hindus migrating to Indore is on the rise. This year, around 1,000 Pakistani Hindus have migrated to Indore and few hundreds have taken shelter in Bhopal and Gwalior.
AMRITSAR: Pakistan Hindu Council has expressed fears that many Hindus might plan migration from Pakistan if the government didn't take steps to assure religious freedom of the community there.
Reacting strongly to the recent demolition of a temple in Karachi, patron of Pakistan Hindu Council Ramesh Vankwani told TOI over the phone that, "If the government didn't take strict action against the builder, there was possibility of migration ...
AMRITSAR: Underprivileged Hindu widows living in Karachi have got a chance to fulfill their religious aspiration - a pilgrimage to Shri Hinglaj Mata, 250 kilometer from Karachi, after Pakistan Hindu Seva Welfare Trust (PHSWT), a Karachi based Hindu organization, announced to take a jatha of 50 poor widows on pilgrimage from October 27 to 31st.
JOHANNESBURG: A white South African music teacher is facing racism charges after allegedly taunting a young Hindu boy for the past three years over a red string worn by the student for religious reasons.
JOHANNESBURG: Some Indian students at a Boksburg school in South Africa are reportedly being racially abused for wearing red strings around their wrists as part of the Hindu faith.
ATTARI: "Let India give some assurance to Pakistani Hindus and then see hoards of them will beeline to India" said Pakistani Hindu national Rup Mehra who along with his family members arrived India after renewal of his Pakistani identity card.
AMRITSAR: Many Pakistani Hindu's from Sindh and Punjab have started 'willingly' embracing Islam and many others have renamed themselves taking Muslim names to avoid revelation of their true identity from public in wake of the recent spate of their persecution , informed Rajesh Kalyan, a Hindu priest and preacher with Pakistan Hindu Seva (PHA), a Karachi based Hindu organization while talking to TOI over phone from Karachi on Wednesday.
ATTARI: While downplaying the incidents of migration of Hindu's from Pakistan and their persecution in the hands of, fundamentalists, terrorists and anti social elements, the Pakistan parliamentarian who have arrived India, blamed on media for exaggerating the issue. However a few of them admitted that there were certain 'structural flaw's' and 'issues' which needed to be resolved to restore Hindu's confidence in Pak administration.
AMRITSAR: More than 50 Hindu families were migrating to India every month due to failure of Pakistan government in finding a tangible solution to the prevailing acute discontentment among them , said President of Pakistan Hindu Council (PHC) , a representative forum ofHindu community in Pakistan, Ramesh Vankwani while talking to TOI over phone from Karachi on Tuesday.
NEW DELHI: With several hundred Pakistani Hindus arriving in India following alleged persecution, the government on Thursday said they will get long-term visas to stay in the country if they apply under stipulated rules.
"So far, no one has applied for long-term visa. Basically, we have norms for the long-term visa. If they apply under them, they will get it," Union home secretary R K Singh said here.
AMRITSAR: Pakistan government reportedly prevented as many as 500 Hindu familiescomprising of men, women and children to celebrate Pakistan's Independence Day at theMazar-e-Qaid (tomb of the founder of Pakistan, Mohammad Ali Jinnah) at Karachi on August 14.
After being refused to enter inside the precincts of tomb the Hindu's sat on road in protest and offered prayers for their country from outside the gate of tomb ...
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has filed an adjournment motion in the National Assembly on the migration of Hindus to India.
A large number of Hindu families have migrated to India on grounds of insecurity in Sindh and other parts of Pakistan.
Dr Darshan, Sheikh Aftab Ahmed, Dr Nelson Azeem, Dr Araish Kumar, Junaid Anwar and Abid Sher Ali of the PML-N signed the motion.
ATTARI: A group of nearly 300 Hindu pilgrimsarrived India via Attari land border to pay obeisance at temples and Gurdwara's in Haridwar, Rishikes, Amritsar , Delhi and Indore.While denying their persecution in Pakistan, most of Jatha members said that the issue was unnecessarily raised by an unmindful statement of a Hindu leader Mahesh Bhatia in Pakistan.