Religion
Lankan PM hails creation of separate Buddhist-majority territorial unit in India
But Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan called the Indian action "racist" and added: "I want to make it clear that we will fight this at every forum."
Maj.Dr.Kelash Garvada becomes the first Hindu army officer to be posted in Pakistan’s Defense Ministry
Islamabad, August 2 (www.defence.pk): Major (Dr) Kelash Garvada is the first-ever Hindu (Meghwar) officer to serve in Pakistan's Ministry Of Defence. From Tharparkar in the province of Sindh, Maj.Dr. Kelash Garvada did his MBBS from LUHMS at Jamshoro, Hyderabad (Sindh) and later got a commission in the Pakistan army. He was Army medical corps Captain and is now promoted as...
Pak premier orders opening of 1000 year old Hindu temple closed since 1947
"We are thankful to the government for opening our temple," said a Hindu man while speaking to SAMAA TV. "We can come here whenever we want now."
Sindh Provincial Govt. gives US$ 1.5 million to renovate St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Karachi
“The Christian community's contribution in the education sector in Pakistan is worth mentioning,” said CM Syed Muradi Ali Shah. Both Shah and L.K.Advani former Indian Deputy Prime Minister are old boys of St.Patrick's School Karachi.
Lankan Cardinal demands govt’s resignation for not probing “international conspiracy” behind terror bombings
Cardinal Ranjith also lambasted the UN saying it is only interested in the welfare of the terror suspects in detention and not the plight of the Catholic survivors of the blasts.
Forcible conversion of Jaffna Tamils during Portuguese rule
The Jaffna Tamils reverted to Hinduism without a second thought when the Portuguese and the Dutch quit and were replaced by the liberal British. Only the coastal Paravas, who saw Catholicism as a liberation theology, stuck to Catholicism.
China issues White Paper on ethno-religious controversy in Xinjiang
The Uygur ethnic group came into being through a long process of migration and integration, the white paper said, adding that it is part of the Chinese nation.
Lankan Minister Mano Ganeshan says he’ll not take up rights issues of North-East Tamils
The announcement followed the absence of North-Eastern Tamils MPs from a meeting Ganeshan had arranged with President Maithripala Sirisena on an explosive Tamil-Sinhalese dispute in the Eastern province.
Abduct and convert: Plight of Hindus in rural Pakistan
The issue involves not only forced conversion but abduction, violation of the law on the age of marriage and marital rape, says the Pakistani report by Kamal Siddiqi
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