[h=1]'We will free India of Muslims and Christians by 2021': DJS leader vows to continue 'ghar wapsi' plans and restore 'Hindu glory' [/h]By PIYUSH SRIVASTAVA PUBLISHED: 03:45 GMT, 19 December 2014 | UPDATED: 03:45 GMT, 19 December 2014
Even as Opposition parties up the ante over alleged incidents of religious reconversion, the Dharm Jagran Samiti has declared that it will ensure India becomes a Hindu Rashtra by 2021. Licence to stay Speaking in Agra on Thursday, a Dharm Jagran Samiti (DJS) functionary said Muslims and Christians will have to convert to Hinduism if they want to stay in this country. The DJS has been at the forefront of the reconversion - or ‘ghar wapsi’ - programmes in recent times in which some Muslims have been reportedly ‘reconverted’ to Hinduism.
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Conversion has become a major political hot potato with a few Hindu organisations holding ‘ghar wapsi’ ceremonies—the photo shows one such exercise in Agra—to ‘reconvert’ Muslims
Pakistan Might Ban Blasphemy Laws After 60,000 Killed, Brother of Murdered Christian Official Says
(Photo: Reuters/Faisal Mahmood)
Members of the Pakistani Christian community attend a protest rally to condemn Sunday's suicide attack in Peshawar on a church, in Islamabad, September 23, 2013. A pair of suicide bombers blew themselves up outside the 130-year-old Anglican church in Pakistan after Sunday mass, killing at least 78 people in the deadliest attack on Christians in the predominantly Muslim country.
By Anugrah Kumar , Christian Post Contributor November 25, 2015|8:35 am
The brother of Shahbaz Bhatti, a government minister who was killed by terrorists for opposing the controversial blasphemy laws in Pakistan, told the U.K. parliament that his country finally appears to be moving toward religious freedom.
The people of Pakistan have seen enough religiously-motivated violence that has killed an estimated 60,000 people in 20 years, and now want tolerance, Paul Bhatti, whose brother was killed in 2011, told the parliament last week, according to Catholic Herald.
"We are still facing the cruel and harsh realities of violence against the weak and voiceless people of our community," but there is improvement, he was quoted as saying.
Last October, the Lahore High Court upheld the death penalty of Asia Bibi, a Christian mother who was convicted of blasphemy. She was sentenced in 2010, a year after she was accused. She was harvesting berries with a group of Muslim women, who accused her of drinking from the same water bowl as them. Following an argument, the women told a local cleric that Bibi had blasphemed against Islam.
Pakistan's blasphemy laws, which are embedded in Sections 295 and 298 of the Pakistan Penal Code, carry death penalty, and yet there is no provision to punish a false accuser or a false witness of blasphemy.
Bhatti said at the parliament that violence "has left our entire nation shocked and discouraged, raising many questions" about the direction Pakistan is going. "We can gain inspiration and courage by looking to those who have gone before us who stood for peace, justice and unity at such great cost," he added.
"I am pleased to share with you that I feel and see that Pakistan is changing," he said. "Present military and civilian operation against terrorism is bringing fruits: all extremist organizations are banned, most terrorist groups are weakened, killers of my brother are arrested and one was killed.
"The people of Pakistan are gradually coming out of oppression and fear, which has dominated them for many years."
The Supreme Court of Pakistan recently upheld the death sentence of a security guard who assassinated former Punjab Governor Salman Taseer for publicly speaking against the blasphemy laws on behalf of the Christian woman Bibi.
The apex court dismissed an appeal to revoke the death sentence for the convict, Mumtaz Qadri, who was supposed to guard Taseer but chose to assassinate him in January 2011, two months before Shahbaz Bhatti's assassination.
Bhatti told the U.K. parliamentarians that such verdicts have "given us great hope" that the peaceful, tolerant and religiously plural society envisioned by the founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, is achievable.
[h=1]Raped 13-Y-O Christian Girl Kidnapped, Forced Into Islamic Marriage[/h]
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A girl from the Christian community mourns over the coffin of her brother, who was one of the victims killed by a suicide attack on a church, during his funeral in Lahore, Pakistan, March 17, 2015. Suicide bombings outside two churches in Lahore killed 14 people and wounded nearly 80 others during services on Sunday in attacks claimed by a faction of the Pakistani Taliban.
By Stoyan Zaimov , Christian Post Reporter November 17, 2015|11:43 am
A 13-year-old Christian girl from Sikandarpura in Pakistan has reportedly been kidnapped from her parents, raped, and forced into marriage by a Muslim man.
The British Pakistani Christian Association reported on Monday that 47-year-old father Shahid Jaan reported last week that his 13-year-old daughter, Sana Bibi, had been abducted, raped and forced into Islamic marriage.
The Muslim man accused of kidnapping the girl was identified as Waheed Akhtar, a former neighbor.
The report by the BPCA states that Sana and her sister Hina were accompanied to school on the day of the incident by Akhtar, but at one point the man asked Hina to go ahead without them, assuring he would walk Sana to school safely. Since they knew the man, Hina did not think something suspicious about the situation – but realized something bad might have happened after her sister did not show up after school.
Hina went back home to tell her family, which eventually led to Jaan contacting local police, who began a search for his daughter. They did not find Akhtar at his residence, however.
The distressed father received a phone call later in the week by Akhtar.
"I have married to your girl and she is Muslim now so whatever you want to do you can do. The law is on my side as I am a Muslim and you are just kaffir," the suspect said. Kaffir refers to people who were formerly Muslim but have since left the faith.
BPCA pointed out that the legal age of consent for marriage in Pakistan is 14, while Jaan said he has proof that his daughter was born April 17, 2002, which means she was married off illegaly.
"This attack reinforces the report by Muslim NGO 'Movement of Solidarity and Peace' who stated 700 Christian girls are forcibly converted into Islam by rapists, that use Sharia Law to act with impunity," said Wilson Chowdhry, Chair of the BPCA.
"Sadly these cases go to Sharia Courts where Christian lawyers are not allowed to defend victims and Muslim lawyers notoriously provide shallow prosecution services meaning Sana is more than likely going to remain in an abusive relationship for the rest of her life. The majority of the girls abducted in this way are around 12 years of age, so laws regarding the legal age of consensual marriage could save a large proportion of victims, however failures by the government to enforce these laws suggests that passion for justice is non-existential," he added.
He said that Christians, who are often persecuted and make up only a small minority in Pakistan, often do not have the money to hire lawyers who can present a strong case for them before court. Often this leads to charges being dropped in favor of compensation, with justice losing out.
Earlier in November, a group of Muslim men who gangraped two teenage Pakistani Christian sisters at gunpoint last year were acquitted by a Pakistani court, after a witness allegedly was bribed into changing his testimony. BBC News and other news sources have documented the widespread problem of forced marriages in Pakistan, which sometimes also target foreign nationals.
"Forced marriage is a government priority," British Consul Simon Minshull said back in January. "We handle around 100 cases a year here, and we'll use the option of rescuing someone where we need to."
Members of the Pakistani Christian community attend a protest rally to condemn Sunday's suicide attack in Peshawar on a church, in Islamabad, September 23, 2013. A pair of suicide bombers blew themselves up outside the 130-year-old Anglican church in Pakistan after Sunday mass, killing at least 78 people in the deadliest attack on Christians in the predominantly Muslim country.
By Anugrah Kumar , Christian Post Contributor November 25, 2015|8:35 am
The brother of Shahbaz Bhatti, a government minister who was killed by terrorists for opposing the controversial blasphemy laws in Pakistan, told the U.K. parliament that his country finally appears to be moving toward religious freedom.
The people of Pakistan have seen enough religiously-motivated violence that has killed an estimated 60,000 people in 20 years, and now want tolerance, Paul Bhatti, whose brother was killed in 2011, told the parliament last week, according to Catholic Herald.
"We are still facing the cruel and harsh realities of violence against the weak and voiceless people of our community," but there is improvement, he was quoted as saying.
Last October, the Lahore High Court upheld the death penalty of Asia Bibi, a Christian mother who was convicted of blasphemy. She was sentenced in 2010, a year after she was accused. She was harvesting berries with a group of Muslim women, who accused her of drinking from the same water bowl as them. Following an argument, the women told a local cleric that Bibi had blasphemed against Islam.
Pakistan's blasphemy laws, which are embedded in Sections 295 and 298 of the Pakistan Penal Code, carry death penalty, and yet there is no provision to punish a false accuser or a false witness of blasphemy.
Bhatti said at the parliament that violence "has left our entire nation shocked and discouraged, raising many questions" about the direction Pakistan is going. "We can gain inspiration and courage by looking to those who have gone before us who stood for peace, justice and unity at such great cost," he added.
"I am pleased to share with you that I feel and see that Pakistan is changing," he said. "Present military and civilian operation against terrorism is bringing fruits: all extremist organizations are banned, most terrorist groups are weakened, killers of my brother are arrested and one was killed.
"The people of Pakistan are gradually coming out of oppression and fear, which has dominated them for many years."
The Supreme Court of Pakistan recently upheld the death sentence of a security guard who assassinated former Punjab Governor Salman Taseer for publicly speaking against the blasphemy laws on behalf of the Christian woman Bibi.
The apex court dismissed an appeal to revoke the death sentence for the convict, Mumtaz Qadri, who was supposed to guard Taseer but chose to assassinate him in January 2011, two months before Shahbaz Bhatti's assassination.
Bhatti told the U.K. parliamentarians that such verdicts have "given us great hope" that the peaceful, tolerant and religiously plural society envisioned by the founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, is achievable.
[h=1]Christian Woman Burned Over 50% of Her Body in Pakistan After Refusing Marriage Proposal[/h]
(Photo: Reuters/Faisal Mahmood)
Members of the Pakistani Christian community attend a protest rally to condemn Sunday's suicide attack in Peshawar on a church, in Islamabad, September 23, 2013. A pair of suicide bombers blew themselves up outside the 130-year-old Anglican church in Pakistan after Sunday mass, killing at least 78 people in the deadliest attack on Christians in the predominantly Muslim country.
By Samuel Smith , CP Reporter October 26, 2015|3:18 pm
A Christian Pakistani woman was set on fire and nearly burned to death in Punjab province after she refused to marry her former boyfriend. The crime took place just weeks after another Christian woman was abducted, forced to marry a Muslim man and convert to Islam.
As the mistreatment of women and religious minorities in Pakistan continue to be the biggest human rights concern in the nation,AFP reported last week that 20-year-old Sonia Bibi was nearly burned to death by her disgruntled ex-boyfriend, Latif Ahmed, in the town of Multan.
After Ahmed asked Bibi to marry him and she refused his proposal, Ahmed covered Bibi with gasoline and set her ablaze. After being taken to Nishtar hospital in Multan, a doctor told AFP that 45 to 50 percent of Bibi's body was covered in burns. Despite having half of her body severely burned, Bibi is expected to survive.
While recovering in her hospital bed, Bibi recalled to local police officials that it was her ex-boyfriend, Ahmed, who set her on fire after she rejected his marriage proposal.
Local police representative Jamshid Hayat told AFP that Ahmed has since been taken into police custody and a preliminary investigation has been launched.
"Police arrested the man after recording the statement of Sonia Bibi in the presence of her parents," Hayat said. "The girl told us that she was in love with Latif, whom she accused of dousing her in gasoline and setting her alight."
Another police officer named Mukhtar Cheema countered that claim and said Bibi told him she rejected Ahmed's proposal because she was no longer in love with him.
As violence against women in Pakistan who refuse a man's proposal is all too common, Nabila Bibi, a Christian woman who was set to marry her Christian fianc, Sajid Masih, in November, was kidnapped by a Muslim man named Allah Rakha earlier in October in the Changa Manga area of the Punjab province.
After Bibi's abduction, Masih, her father, Bashir Masih, and other family members searched for her and later filed a missing person's report at the Changa Manga police station.
The Pakistan Christian Post reports that on Oct. 16, Muslim men went to her father's home and told him that his daughter had converted to Islam and married a Muslim man. They showed him some documents as proof of her conversion and marriage.
Last Thursday, Bibi's fianc, his cousins, and Bibi's father traveled to Rakha's home and demanded to see Bibi. Upon their arrival, they were met by Rakha and a group of 15 to 20 other Muslim men who refused to let them visit with Bibi and also threatened them with severe consequences if they did not leave the property.
After Bibi's family refused to leave, the group of Muslim men captured the family members and held them hostage inside Rakha's mansion.
After spending the night locked up, the men finally were able to flee from the mansion Friday morning. But on Saturday, Muslim men went to Bibi's father's home and asked where Bibi's fianc lived. After Masih told the men the name of the town where Sajid Masih lived, the men went looking for him.
Bibi's fianc fled from his home before the men arrived and is now in hiding, according to the Pakistani Christian Post.
Sadly, Bibi is one of about 700 Pakistani Christian girls who are abducted and forced into an Islamic marriages every year, according to a report by the Muslim NGO "Movement of Solidarity and Peace in Pakistan."
Christian families often find it difficult to depend on the Pakistani judicial system to free their daughters, wives and fiancs. Although a family can file reports of rape and abduction with the local police, the Muslim abductor generally files a counter report, on behalf of the abducted woman, claiming that abducted woman willfully married and converted to Islam, and the family is harassing the woman to try and convert her back to Christianity.
"Upon the girl's pronouncement that she willfully converted and consented to the marriage, the case is settled without relief for the family," the NGO report explains. "Once in the custody of the abductor, the victim girl may be subjected to sexual violence, rape, forced prostitution, human trafficking and sale, or other domestic abuse."
[h=1]INDIA :Two Dalit children burnt alive in Faridabad[/h][h=2]Two children were charred to death whereas, parents suffered serious burn injuries in the incident.[/h]
IndiaToday.in New Delhi, October 20, 2015 | Edited by Satya Prakash | UPDATED 19:07 IST
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Two children of a Dalit family were on Tuesday burnt alive and their parents suffered injuries allegedly after some persons from an upper caste set their house afire while they were sleeping.
The incident occurred at around 2 am in Sonped village on the outskirts of Delhi, according to police. Also read- Dalit family burnt alive near Delhi: 7 policemen suspended Vaibhav, who was two-and-a-half years old, and his sister, 11-month-old Divya, died on the spot after the attackers allegedly poured petrol and set the house ablaze.
A girl from the Christian community mourns over the coffin of her brother, who was one of the victims killed by a suicide attack on a church, during his funeral in Lahore, Pakistan, March 17, 2015. Suicide bombings outside two churches in Lahore killed 14 people and wounded nearly 80 others during services on Sunday in attacks claimed by a faction of the Pakistani Taliban.
By Stoyan Zaimov , Christian Post Reporter November 17, 2015|11:43 am
A 13-year-old Christian girl from Sikandarpura in Pakistan has reportedly been kidnapped from her parents, raped, and forced into marriage by a Muslim man.
The British Pakistani Christian Association reported on Monday that 47-year-old father Shahid Jaan reported last week that his 13-year-old daughter, Sana Bibi, had been abducted, raped and forced into Islamic marriage.
The Muslim man accused of kidnapping the girl was identified as Waheed Akhtar, a former neighbor.
The report by the BPCA states that Sana and her sister Hina were accompanied to school on the day of the incident by Akhtar, but at one point the man asked Hina to go ahead without them, assuring he would walk Sana to school safely. Since they knew the man, Hina did not think something suspicious about the situation – but realized something bad might have happened after her sister did not show up after school.
Hina went back home to tell her family, which eventually led to Jaan contacting local police, who began a search for his daughter. They did not find Akhtar at his residence, however.
The distressed father received a phone call later in the week by Akhtar.
"I have married to your girl and she is Muslim now so whatever you want to do you can do. The law is on my side as I am a Muslim and you are just kaffir," the suspect said. Kaffir refers to people who were formerly Muslim but have since left the faith.
BPCA pointed out that the legal age of consent for marriage in Pakistan is 14, while Jaan said he has proof that his daughter was born April 17, 2002, which means she was married off illegaly.
"This attack reinforces the report by Muslim NGO 'Movement of Solidarity and Peace' who stated 700 Christian girls are forcibly converted into Islam by rapists, that use Sharia Law to act with impunity," said Wilson Chowdhry, Chair of the BPCA.
"Sadly these cases go to Sharia Courts where Christian lawyers are not allowed to defend victims and Muslim lawyers notoriously provide shallow prosecution services meaning Sana is more than likely going to remain in an abusive relationship for the rest of her life. The majority of the girls abducted in this way are around 12 years of age, so laws regarding the legal age of consensual marriage could save a large proportion of victims, however failures by the government to enforce these laws suggests that passion for justice is non-existential," he added.
He said that Christians, who are often persecuted and make up only a small minority in Pakistan, often do not have the money to hire lawyers who can present a strong case for them before court. Often this leads to charges being dropped in favor of compensation, with justice losing out.
Earlier in November, a group of Muslim men who gangraped two teenage Pakistani Christian sisters at gunpoint last year were acquitted by a Pakistani court, after a witness allegedly was bribed into changing his testimony. BBC News and other news sources have documented the widespread problem of forced marriages in Pakistan, which sometimes also target foreign nationals.
"Forced marriage is a government priority," British Consul Simon Minshull said back in January. "We handle around 100 cases a year here, and we'll use the option of rescuing someone where we need to."
[h=1]Christian Man Arrested for 'Blasphemy' in Pakistan After Muslim Business Rival Lodges Complaint[/h]
(Photo: Reuters/Faisal Mahmood)
Members of the Pakistani Christian community attend a protest rally to condemn Sunday's suicide attack in Peshawar on a church, in Islamabad, September 23, 2013. A pair of suicide bombers blew themselves up outside the 130-year-old Anglican church in Pakistan after Sunday mass, killing at least 78 people in the deadliest attack on Christians in the predominantly Muslim country.
By Anugrah Kumar , Christian Post Contributor September 5, 2015|10:05 am
A Christian man has been arrested on charges of "blasphemy" after his business rival, a Muslim, claimed in a police complaint that he defiled the name of the Muslim prophet Muhammad. The complaint was lodged after the Christian man got a contract for building material that complainant had also applied for.
Police arrested the Christian man, Pervaiz Masih, from his home in Punjab province's District Kasur this week, acting on a complain filed by a Muslim businessman, Haji Jamshed, according to a report by a local group, The Voice Society.
Masih's family wasn't informed initially where he was being taken by police.
The accused is a father of four children, including a 7-month-old boy.
The police complaint was filed under Pakistan's notorious anti-blasphemy law after Masih and his brother-in-law got a contract for providing sand for a construction project, for which the complainant, Jamshed, and his partner, Haji Bashir, had also applied, the report says.
Christians in the Khudian village, where Masih lives with his family, fear attacks by local Muslim extremists, the report says. Police reportedly raided several Christian houses in the village and beat men and women as they sought information about Masih.
Police claimed that Masih has confessed to his "crime."
Some members of The Voice Society, who visited the area to prepare the investigative report, were also arrested, and later released.
Allegations of blasphemy often "stem from the Muslim accuser's desire to take revenge" and to "settle petty, personal disputes," according to the U.K.-based group Pakistan's Centre for Legal Aid, Assistance and Settlement, or CLAAS.
Pakistan's blasphemy laws, which are embedded in Sections 295 and 298 of the Pakistan Penal Code, carry death penalty, and yet there is no provision to punish a false accuser or a false witness of blasphemy.
Katrina Lantos Swett, chairperson of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, and her fellow commissioner, Mary Ann Glendon, visited Pakistan earlier this month and came up with a report.
"There is a rising tide of religious persecution by the state and by militants," the report said, adding that the South Asian country's blasphemy law grossly abuses human rights. "The commission is aware of almost 40 people on death row or serving life sentences for blasphemy, a statistic unmatched in the world. The law fosters violence against religious minorities, such as Christians, Hindus and Ahmadis."
Last October, the Lahore High Court upheld the death penalty of Asia Bibi, a Christian mother who was convicted of blasphemy.
She was sentenced in 2010, a year after she was accused. She was harvesting berries with a group of Muslim women, who accused her of drinking from the same water bowl as them. Following an argument, the women told a local cleric that Bibi had blasphemed against Islam.
Members of the Pakistani Christian community attend a protest rally to condemn Sunday's suicide attack in Peshawar on a church, in Islamabad, September 23, 2013. A pair of suicide bombers blew themselves up outside the 130-year-old Anglican church in Pakistan after Sunday mass, killing at least 78 people in the deadliest attack on Christians in the predominantly Muslim country.
By Samuel Smith , CP Reporter October 26, 2015|3:18 pm
A Christian Pakistani woman was set on fire and nearly burned to death in Punjab province after she refused to marry her former boyfriend. The crime took place just weeks after another Christian woman was abducted, forced to marry a Muslim man and convert to Islam.
As the mistreatment of women and religious minorities in Pakistan continue to be the biggest human rights concern in the nation,AFP reported last week that 20-year-old Sonia Bibi was nearly burned to death by her disgruntled ex-boyfriend, Latif Ahmed, in the town of Multan.
After Ahmed asked Bibi to marry him and she refused his proposal, Ahmed covered Bibi with gasoline and set her ablaze. After being taken to Nishtar hospital in Multan, a doctor told AFP that 45 to 50 percent of Bibi's body was covered in burns. Despite having half of her body severely burned, Bibi is expected to survive.
While recovering in her hospital bed, Bibi recalled to local police officials that it was her ex-boyfriend, Ahmed, who set her on fire after she rejected his marriage proposal.
Local police representative Jamshid Hayat told AFP that Ahmed has since been taken into police custody and a preliminary investigation has been launched.
"Police arrested the man after recording the statement of Sonia Bibi in the presence of her parents," Hayat said. "The girl told us that she was in love with Latif, whom she accused of dousing her in gasoline and setting her alight."
Another police officer named Mukhtar Cheema countered that claim and said Bibi told him she rejected Ahmed's proposal because she was no longer in love with him.
As violence against women in Pakistan who refuse a man's proposal is all too common, Nabila Bibi, a Christian woman who was set to marry her Christian fianc, Sajid Masih, in November, was kidnapped by a Muslim man named Allah Rakha earlier in October in the Changa Manga area of the Punjab province.
After Bibi's abduction, Masih, her father, Bashir Masih, and other family members searched for her and later filed a missing person's report at the Changa Manga police station.
The Pakistan Christian Post reports that on Oct. 16, Muslim men went to her father's home and told him that his daughter had converted to Islam and married a Muslim man. They showed him some documents as proof of her conversion and marriage.
Last Thursday, Bibi's fianc, his cousins, and Bibi's father traveled to Rakha's home and demanded to see Bibi. Upon their arrival, they were met by Rakha and a group of 15 to 20 other Muslim men who refused to let them visit with Bibi and also threatened them with severe consequences if they did not leave the property.
After Bibi's family refused to leave, the group of Muslim men captured the family members and held them hostage inside Rakha's mansion.
After spending the night locked up, the men finally were able to flee from the mansion Friday morning. But on Saturday, Muslim men went to Bibi's father's home and asked where Bibi's fianc lived. After Masih told the men the name of the town where Sajid Masih lived, the men went looking for him.
Bibi's fianc fled from his home before the men arrived and is now in hiding, according to the Pakistani Christian Post.
Sadly, Bibi is one of about 700 Pakistani Christian girls who are abducted and forced into an Islamic marriages every year, according to a report by the Muslim NGO "Movement of Solidarity and Peace in Pakistan."
Christian families often find it difficult to depend on the Pakistani judicial system to free their daughters, wives and fiancs. Although a family can file reports of rape and abduction with the local police, the Muslim abductor generally files a counter report, on behalf of the abducted woman, claiming that abducted woman willfully married and converted to Islam, and the family is harassing the woman to try and convert her back to Christianity.
"Upon the girl's pronouncement that she willfully converted and consented to the marriage, the case is settled without relief for the family," the NGO report explains. "Once in the custody of the abductor, the victim girl may be subjected to sexual violence, rape, forced prostitution, human trafficking and sale, or other domestic abuse."
INDIA :Two Dalit children burnt alive in Faridabad
Two children were charred to death whereas, parents suffered serious burn injuries in the incident.
IndiaToday.in New Delhi, October 20, 2015 | Edited by Satya Prakash | UPDATED 19:07 IST
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Two children of a Dalit family were on Tuesday burnt alive and their parents suffered injuries allegedly after some persons from an upper caste set their house afire while they were sleeping.
The incident occurred at around 2 am in Sonped village on the outskirts of Delhi, according to police. Also read- Dalit family burnt alive near Delhi: 7 policemen suspended Vaibhav, who was two-and-a-half years old, and his sister, 11-month-old Divya, died on the spot after the attackers allegedly poured petrol and set the house ablaze.
New York- About 77 percent of girls aged between 15 and 19 in India have been subjected to sexual violence by their spouses, according to a report by UNICEF which also said more than half of the girls in the age group faced physical abuse at the hands of their parents.
The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) report titled "Hidden in Plain Sight" said violence against children is so prevalent and deeply ingrained in societies that it was often unseen and accepted as the norm. The report said that 77 percent of girls aged 15 to 19 years in India have at least once experienced forced sexual intercourse or any other forced sexual acts by their current husband or partner. Partner violence is also pervasive in South Asia, where at least one in five girls who have ever been married or in union experienced partner violence. In this region, the prevalence of partner violence is particularly high in Bangladesh and India.
The report said that in India 34 per cent of ever-married girls aged 15 to 19 years had experienced some form of physical, sexual or emotional violence committed by their husbands or partners. The report added that about 21 per cent of girls aged 15 to 19 in India had experienced physical violence since age 15. It said the identity of the most common perpetrator varied by the marital status of the victim. "Not surprisingly, among ever-married girls who experienced physical violence since age 15, a current or former partner was cited most often in all of the countries," it said.
The report further added that girls who had not been married were most likely to report physical violence at the hands of family members, friends, acquaintances and teachers. The most commonly reported perpetrator was the victim's mother or stepmother, with over half of single girls reporting this in Azerbaijan, Cambodia, Haiti, India, Liberia, Sao Tome and Principe, and Timor-Leste.
In India, 41 per cent of girls aged 15 to 19 years had experienced physical violence since age 15 by their mother or step-mother while 18 per cent had been subjected to physical violence by their fathers and step-fathers. India also had the third highest number of young homicide victims in 2012. Nearly 9,400 children and adolescents aged 0 to 19 years were killed in India in 2012. The report also noted that 41-60 per cent girls aged 15 to 19 think that a husband or partner is "justified in hitting or beating his wife or partner" under some circumstances.
The report, which draws on data from 190 countries, found that about two-thirds of children worldwide or almost one billion between ages 2 and 14 are subjected to physical punishment by their caregivers on a regular basis.
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Around 5,000 Hindus migrate from Pakistan to India and other countries every year due to religious persecutionISLAMABAD: Around 5,000 Hindus migrate from Pakistan to India and other countries every year due to religious persecution, ruling Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) lawmaker Ramesh Kumar Wankwani has told the Pakistani National Assembly.
"During last two months, six incidents of religious desecration happened only in Sindh province. In all incidents, religious books of Hindu minority and their places of worship were burnt," said Wankwani, who also heads the Pakistan Hindu Council.
He said the government has so far neither made arrests nor taken action against any extremist group involved in attacks. "No one from the minority community feels safe in Pakistan," he said on Monday while commenting on law and order situation in the country.
He blamed the government for failing to control frequent attacks against Hindus and maintained it was the community's constitutional right to practice its religion freely in Pakistan.
"But the rights of Hindus have never remained a priority here. The problems of Hindus are multiplying in Pakistan instead of decreasing. Are we not part of this country?" he questioned.
He said it was the teaching of all the religions to respect other faiths but the minorities had failed to get equal rights in Pakistan.
The lawmaker informed the house that scores of Hindu women have been abducted in last few years in Sindh province and later married to their kidnappers after forcible conversion. He urged the government to take steps to counter it.
Wankwani asked why issues of minorities never came up for discussion in the house. "When Jinnah's residence was attacked and destroyed in Ziarat town of Baluchistan, the National Assembly had debated on the issue for four consecutive days,'' he said.
"I request the house to spare some time for taking up the problems faced by minorities.'' He said Hindus are also equal citizens of Pakistan and their holy books should also be considered equally respectful.
Wankwani suggested the government to set up a parliamentary committee to discuss issues related to minorities in this regard.
There was a pin-drop silence in the house as all legislators attentively listened to his emotional speech.
Later, minister of state for parliamentary affairs Sheikh Aftab Ahmed said the government will ensure the protection of minorities at all cost as it is mentioned in the Constitution.
[h=1]Hindus and other non-Muslims in Pakistan are targets of attack on life, property and identity.[/h][h=2][/h][h=2]Pakistan has failed to protect religious freedom: U.S. State Department. [/h].. New Delhi Times Bureau | New Delhi | Oct 15, 2015:: The U.S state department said in its annual report on International Religious Freedom report for the year 2014 that Pakistan has failed to protect religious freedom, it said “In Pakistan, the government’s general failure to investigate, arrest or prosecute those responsible for religious freedom abuses promoted an environment of impunity. This environment fostered further intolerance and acts of violence,”.
“Government policies also failed to protect members of majority and minority religious groups,” said the report released by Secretary of State John Kerry.“In addition, the persistent use of discriminatory legislation, such as blasphemy laws, including the government’s failure to address false accusations of blasphemy and laws designed to delegitimize the Ahmadiyya Muslim community, meant that minorities were often afraid to profess freely their religious beliefs,” the report said.The Supreme Court announced a detailed judgment regarding minorities’ rights on June 20, in accordance with which the government created a National Commission for Minorities with representatives of various faith groups, it noted.However, other recommendations from the judgment have yet to be implemented, such as establishment of a police task force to protect minorities, revision of school curricula to promote religious and social tolerance, and steps to discourage hate speech in social media, the report said.It said discrimination against Christians, Hindus, Sikhs, and Ahmadis in admission to higher education institutions persisted. Minority leaders reported their communities faced restrictions in securing admissions into colleges and universities.
[h=2]Where are Human Rights for Religious Minorities in Pakistan?[/h]NDTB | New Delhi | Oct 15, 2015::In human and subhuman practices- killings, abduction, torture and rape-make their life hell. Minorities in Pakistan can be categorized as ‘ethnic and linguistic’ and ‘religious’. The 1973 Constitution used the term ‘minority’ on several occasions but never defined it. Government views minorities on religious lines only without differentiating along ethnic, racial or linguistic as evidenced in recent national census.Christians, Hindus, Ahamaddiyas, scheduled castes and others (including Sikhs and Parsis) are officially and constitutionally recognized as religious minorities. As per 1998 census, religious minorities constituted 3.72 per cent- Christians (1.9%) and Hindus(1.6%) -and predominant 96.28 per cent Muslims. Majority of them profess Sunni Islam of the Hanafi school of thought. Minorities contend official figures to be grossly under-representative of their true numerical strength.Ishtiaq Ahmed’s book (2011), quoting independent studies, puts minority’s population at nearly 10 per cent; Hindus and Christians making up four million each. Founder Jinnah did not envisage an Islamic state so Pakistan became the homeland for all religious minorities but induction of a series of anti-blasphemy offences in Penal Code providing jail term and later on, the death penalty for criticism of the Prophet changed all that.Islamization process aggravated with Zia-ul-Haq’s imposition of Hudood Ordinances- an exclusively Islamic code- which played havoc as women and religious minorities were targeted and victimized. Amnesty International urged Benazir Bhuttoto abolish the terrorising law; she could only achieve moderation.Nawaz Sharif further Islamized Pakistan through the Shariat bill in 1998 for implementing the Sharia; its arbitrary natures, severity of punishment and exploitation by religious extremists attracted enormous international criticism.Prevailing culture of religious intolerance did not allow Musharraf to modify anti-blasphemy laws substantively.Qisas and Diyat Ordinances became further instruments of discrimination as only the family of the victim, and not the state, could pardon the convicted person, in return for monetary compensation.Muslim murdering a non-Muslim could pay compensation to the victim’s family and get acquitted, but a non-Muslim, had to face either a prison sentence or the death penalty, deprived of this facility of paying off blood money. Muslims could give evidence against non-Muslims but non-Muslims were barred from giving evidence against a Muslim accused. Recent years have witnessed mounting attacks on the lives,leaders, properties and places of worship resulting in ‘increased social vulnerability’ of non-Muslims.Terrorists entered the Peace and Justice Institute (PJI) in Karachi, separated Christians from Muslims and executed eight Christians by shooting in the head. Seven people were shot dead at a Christian charity in Karachi; hands tied and mouths covered with tape.Islamists killed 15 Christians at a church in Lahore. Around 3,000 militant Islamists attacked Christians in Sangla Hill in Pakistan destroying Roman Catholicand United Presbyterian churches and Salvation Army .Christian schools and homes have not been spared, Churches burnt and Bibles desecrated. A lawyer in Multan representing blasphemy accused was murdered. The Cabinet Minister for Minority Affairs –a Christian—was assassinated; elder brotherforced to flee.The first Christian news anchor and morning show host fled. Hundreds of Christians are among the blasphemy accused and at least 12 in death row. Poor, defenceless and marginalized Christian girls are the weakest; most vulnerable to rape, harassment and threats.Ribqa Masih, a Christian woman was drugged, kidnapped and raped repeatedly under threat of death for conversion to Islam. The father of a minor Christian girl went to rapist’s family to appeal for justice but was only given money to buy painkillers for the haemorrhaging girl! So much for the barbaric practices as state and society concur.Christians are constantly under threats of attack and intimidation for forcible conversion to Islam. Mass killings and desecration of Churches in Charasadda in the North West Frontier Province are stark reminders.Mass anti-Christian violence like Gojra riots (2009), Joseph Colony riot (2013) and Gujranwala riot (2013) have psyched them out. Intense persecution has forced thousands of Christians to flee Pakistan. Pew Research Centre in Washington puts Pakistan among the top most persecuting countries for religious minorities. The Human Rights Watch noted government’s unwillingness or inability to provide protection against extremists’ attacks.Pakistan is a heady cocktail of a barbaric society, primitive laws and acquiescing government, brewing up a highlyvolatile and insecure society for religious minorities. Stuck to the dark period in history, with dated perceptions on women’s liberty and education, Muslim society is starved of educated girls; poaching from advanced Christian religion for educated women with liberal outlook comes easy.A Mughal emperor once spoke of Kashmir that if there is heaven on earth, it is here, here, and here. Probably same thing can be said about Pakistan. If anywhere on earth there is hell for religious minorities, it is here, here and here.
[h=2]Hindus in Pakistan are targets of attack on life, property and identity.[/h]
Pakistani Hindus hold placards as they shout slogans during a protest against alleged human rights violations in Pakistan, outside the United Nation office in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, April 17, 2013. A group of Hindus from Sindh province in Pakistan are living in India after leaving their home country a year ago for fear of being persecuted, according to news reports. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
NDTB | New Delhi | Oct 15, 2015:: Pakistan has 95% Muslim population but minorities put theirs at 10%, not 5% as claimed. This overwhelming majority aided by persistent Islamisation of constitution, has reduced minority influence to bare minimum. Article 25 of the constitution declared all citizens as ‘equal before law and are entitled to equal protection of law’ but Article 295-C provided death penalty for derogatory remarks by words, visible representation, imputation, innuendo, insinuation or defiling the sacred name of the Holy Prophet. This blasphemy law, meant to protect Muslims and Islam has actually decimated Hindus. National Commission for justice and Peace reported 1400 blasphemy cases since the 1980s whereas The United States Commission for International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) study reported state-sponsored 200 attacks and 1,800 casualties between 2012 and mid-2013. The imposition of exclusively Islamic code on non-Muslims through Hudood Ordinances allows evidence against non-Muslims but bars non-Muslims’ evidence against Muslim accused. Qisasand Diyat Ordinances deepened discrimination as only the family of the victim, and not the state, could pardon the convicted person, in return for monetary compensation. Muslim murdering a non-Muslim could pay blood money to the victim’s family and get acquitted, whereas a non-Muslim, deprived of this facility, faced death or imprisonment.Since Pakistan’s inception, not a single law has been enacted to protect religious minorities. As of April 2012, Pakistan did not provide a legal system for registration of marriages for Hindus, so Muslims intimidate, kidnap and forcibly marry the already married Hindu women. No legal recourse is available since previous marriage was not recognised! Non registration also deprives them of Computerized National Identity Card. Hindu girls are routinely kidnapped, subjected to sexual violence, rape, forced prostitution, human trafficking and sale. The famous case of Mukhtara Mai stands out as she was raped on the orders of local tribal council of Jirga! European Organisation of Pakistani Minorities in its Violence against Minorities in Pakistan – 2014 Report narrates the harrowing instances of atrocities against Hindus like kidnap and death of a nine-year-old Hindu girl while being raped; abduction, forced conversion and marriage of Hindu school teacher Sapna; abduction of five children aged between 5 to 10 years of a local well known Hindu trader Saith Bhojrajat gunpoint; forcible conversion of minor daughters Jumna and Pooja of a poor toy maker and instances of bodies found missing from their graves. Sanno Amra and Champa, a Hindu couple in Karachi, returned home to find that their three teenage daughters had been taken to a madrasa, forcibly converted to Islam, and denied unsupervised contact with their parents! Abduction and forcible conversions and marriage of married Hindu women are quite common in Sindh province. The pernicious practice of slavery, though abolished from all civilised countries, still exists in Pakistan as numerous reports suggest millions of Hindus being held as ‘bonded labourers’ in slavery-like conditions in rural Pakistan.Hindu temples have been targeted too frequently. Hanuman temple in Hyderabad was desecrated, idol broken and the temple set on fire. A Hindu temple and a community centre were set ablaze in Larkana, also in Tharparkar and Tando Mohammad Khan. The century old Sri Ratneswar Mahadev Hindu temple in Karachi was under threat. The temple land of Hindu goddess **** Mata in Hyderabad, with a settlement of several thousand Hindu families living in the compound for decades, faced encroachment threat. The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) noted that 720 families of Hindu sanitary workers were forced to vacate a century old settlement in Karachi after repeated incidents of rape, abduction and attacks on houses by drug peddlers known as ‘Slaughter House Quarter’ with the connivance of police and Pakistan Rangers. The houses of worship and properties left behind by the Hindus have been usurped by the Evacuee Trust Property Board as one-million acres of land in Badin, Umerkot and Tharparkar testify. Hindus are forced to pay Jizyah of Rs 25 000 per person per year at Peshawar or FATA.‘Art of Living Yoga Centre’ was set on fire fearing that popular yoga- a Hindu practice- might influence Muslims. Even text books in schools encourage students to kill Hindus whom media projects as opportunists.Pew Research Centre in Washington puts Pakistan among the top most persecuting countries to religious minorities. The report uses two indices (1) The Government Restrictions Index (GRI) measuring government laws, policies and actions that restrict religious beliefs and practices and (2) The Social Hostilities Index (SHI) measuring acts of religious hostility by private individuals, organisations or groups in society. Pakistan topped the list of 198 countries having the highest level of social hostilities involving religion. USCIRF has designated Pakistan as a ‘Country of Particular Concern’ (CPC) since 2002 denouncing continuous state tolerance of systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of freedom of religion or belief.Hindus are discriminated against in respect of fundamental rights, political participation, public positions, education, employment, property, food, clothing and housing. Negation of rule of law and democratic governance has resulted in ‘democratic deficit’. Deteriorating conditions have forced Hindus to flee Pakistan at over five thousand per year reducing them from 23% in 1947 to 1.5% now. Discriminatory laws, forced conversions, bombs and shootings have rendered life hell for Hindus in Pakistan.Courtesy: NDT.
[h=1]Islamic persecution upon Minorities in Pak : A liar Pakistan wants to wash its dirty linen with an Islamic soap.[/h][h=2]A liar Pakistan wants to wash its dirty linen with an Islamic soap.[/h][h=1]Police, Hindu community give contradicting statements over minority persecution.[/h]By Hafeez Tunio | The Express Tribune | October 5, 2012 :: KARACHI: The police and representatives of the Hindu community gave contradicting statements over the issue of minority persecution in Pakistan during a meeting of the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Human Rights held on Friday.During the meeting presided over by Committee Chairman Riaz Fatyana, the police maintained that minorities in Pakistan get equal rights and there was no Hindu migration from Sindh, while representatives from the Hindu community thought otherwise.Additional Inspector-General (AIG) Falak Khursheed said, “Pakistan is a country where every citizen reserves the right to live his life the way he wants. Minorities especially Hindus girls are never pressurised to accept Islam or to convert their religion.”He said that only three families had migrated to India while 200-300 other people had gone for a pilgrimage to their holy places this year.On the other hand, minority MNA Dr Araish Kumar from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa said that the AIG was misguiding the committee by presenting wrong figures. He said that around 12 cases of forced conversions were reported in Tando Allahyar in past one month, while 7,000 Hindus had migrated to India in the past three years.Mangla Sharma from Pakistan Hindu Council said that over 0.1 million Hindus from Sindh have migrated to India. She reiterated that the government has avoided providing 5% quota of jobs at government departments to minorities.After a long discussion, the committee recommended that district-level special cells, with representatives from police, home department, civil society and Hindu community, be established to protect minority rights.The committee further advised the Sindh government to lodge cases under the “Anti Terrorism Act” against those who attack temples and other worship places for minorities in Pakistan, and directed the home department and the provincial government to set up “safe houses” where kidnapped girls can be kept for around one month before being moved to any court.The officials of the law department were also directed to prepare a draft on Hindu Personal Law with the input on Hindu community leaders.Pakistan Muslim League – Quaid (PML-Q) MNA Dr Attiya Inayatullah, Chairman Pakistan Sikh Council Sardar Ramesh Singh and officials of law and home departments also expressed their views on the issue during the meeting. [eCourtesy: The Express Tribune, Pakistan].
[h=1]Without Hindu Marriage Law, Pak Hindus are forced to be converted into Islam.[/h][h=2][/h][h=2]In absence of Hindu marriage law, Pakistani Hindus have no option but to be forced for embracing Islam.[/h]IANS | Islamabad | January 29, 2016:: There is no marriage law for the millions of Hindus living in Pakistan, a leading daily said on Friday, noting that this “legal vacuum naturally creates a multitude of issues for Pakistani Hindus, especially the women”.An editorial “Hindu marriage bill” in Dawn on Friday said that while many politicians are quick to issue public statements about the rights of minorities in Pakistan, when it comes to taking practical steps to secure these rights, there is very little to show.“A prime example of this strange paradox is the decades-old issue of legislation related to Hindu marriage.“At the current time, there is no marriage law for the millions of Hindus living in Pakistan. This legal vacuum naturally creates a multitude of issues for Pakistani Hindus, especially the women of the community,” said the daily.It said that Hindu women have to face problems in proving their relationships when dealing with officialdom, while widows are particularly disadvantaged.“Without official proof of relationships, getting government documents issued or moving forward on any other activity which involves documentation – from opening bank accounts to applying for visas – becomes next to impossible for any citizen.”The daily wondered how the Hindu community is supposed to cope?Some experts point out that forced conversions are also facilitated by the lack of documentation of Hindu marriages.Despite the fact that many of these points were raised at a seminar in Islamabad on Wednesday by the chairman of the National Assembly`s Standing Committee on Law and Justice – which is supposed to approve the Hindu marriage bill to be tabled in the house – he was unable to convince the committee to give the green signal at a meeting on the same day.“…even the Supreme Court has ordered the state to enact the law, (but) lawmakers have failed to do the needful.”The editorial went on to say that while family law is now a provincial subject, the federating units can ask the centre, through resolutions passed by their respective assemblies, to legislate on the matter.Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have passed the requisite resolutions, but the Sindh and Punjab assemblies have not yet done so.“This tardiness and lack of political will are inexcusable. If the parties leading the Sindh and Punjab governments are serious about their commitment to minority rights, they should pass the resolutions without further delay in order to do away with the hurdles in the way of a Hindu marriage law.“Sindh should show particular alacrity, as most of Pakistan`s Hindus reside in this province. Failure to take timely action and pass the law will only compound this decades-old injustice and expose our leaders` claims of respecting minority rights as hollow,” it added.…
[h=1]Global Protest on H R Day against Hindu-Christian-Minority attack & Rights Violation in Pakistan.[/h]
In front of Pakistan Embassy in Washington DC.
[h=2]Human Rights Protest outside Pakistan Embassy at Washington DC against Hindu girls abduction, forceful conversion, marriage and Christian killings in Islamic Pakistan. Condemnation and agitation too in Pakistan on International Human Rights Day. [/h]
Zeroing Pakistani Hindus.
Special Correspondents | Washington DC & Hyderabad, Pakistan | HENB | 11 Dec 2014:: On December 10, 2014, International Human Rights Day, members of many Hindu groups, Christian groups and human rights groups joined together outside the Pakistan Embassy in Washington, DC calling for an end to the abuse of human rights of religious minorities and inhumane Islamic persecution upon Hindus and Christians in Pakistan.Many Hindu, Christian and Human rights organisers like Pakistan Human Rights Collective, World Hindu Council of America, American Friends of Balochistan, Pakistan Christian Congress and Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) participated in protest rally. The protest took place on the 66th anniversary of the United Nations’ signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) on December 10, 1948.The protesters demanded the release of 12 year old Pakistan Hindu girl Kajal Bheel, whose forced abduction and forced religious conversion has drawn world-wide condemnation and outrage. The protesters called for Pakistan courts to allow the release of Kajal Bheel from her forced abduction, and urged support for the legal efforts to defend Kajal Bheel by the Global Human Rights Defence organization (GHRD).GHRD is planning for the next court case to defend her on December 19 in Pakistan, and they are calling for people to support her human rights by signing their petition at:http://ghrd.org/get-involved/petitions/save-kajal/savekajal/ and on Twitter at #savekajalProtesters also pointed out the recent of abduction and forced conversaion of other Pakistan Hindu girls, including Neelam Kohli (11 years old), Anjali Menghwar (12 years old), Kiran Kumari (14 years old), Parsa Kolhi, and Wali Kolhi. Protesters displayed signs condemning the practice of such child abduction and forced religious conversion to Islam.The oppression and attack on Pakistan Hindu religious minorities was also demonstrated by protesters who pointed out that Hindus went from a 24 percent minority in 1948 to about 1.6 percent of the Pakistan population in 1998.Human rights campaigner Ahmer Mustikhan asked Pakistanis – “Are these not our children? Are our Hindu girls not children that deserve to be protected, live with their families, and have a right to their religion?” R.E.A.L.’s Jeffrey Imm also pointed out how such human rights abuse of Hindu girls was a violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, including articles 3,16, and 18. Jeffrey Imm also denounced a pattern of attacks in Pakistan against Hindu temples and their business.The protesters also decried the abuse of Pakistan Christians and other minorities, noting the recent mob attack on a Pakistan Christian couple (burning them to death), and called for an end to oppressive Pakistan blasphemy law used to give a death sentence to Christian Asia Bibi, which was used in the arrest of Christian Zafar Bhatti (who was shot to death), and oppression of other religious minorities. Protesters held signs condemning the Pakistan blasphemy law and calling for its change. Protesters called for the release of such Pakistan political prisoners as Christian Asia Bibi, who have been imprisoned on spurious “blasphemy” charges.
Hyderabad Court Protest and Dayal Dass Club Program.
In Pakistan, there was a series of protests over the persecution on minority Hindus to mark the observation of International Human Rights Day 2014. Pakistan Hindu Seva (PHS) organized a protest against recent forced conversion of minor Hindu girls. The protest was organized in front of High Court Hyderabad where lawyers from Mirpurkhas, Hyderabad and Karachi participated against injustices with minorities in Sindh. Mohan Bheel father of adducted girl Kajal Bheel, who is recently forcefully converted to Islam from Udero Lal, asked law enforcing agencies for justice with them. There were also family members of Marvi Kolhi aged 13 and Bhadal Kolhi aged 14 who were recently abducted and forcefully converted to Islam. As per the monitoring team of PHS, there are 12 cases of very recent forced conversion with minor Hindu girls in the last 52 days. Hindus is Sindh are not given any justice by government and judiciary.Pakistan Hindu Seva, CRM, GHRD and CSSP organized the Seminar on “Forcefully Conversion and Hindu Marriage Act” on the day of International Human Rights Day at Hyderbad Dayal Dass Club. In this seminar around 200 persons came belonging to different sect of life including speakers, students, advocates, women, civil society people, political parties’ members, the victims’ families.
At Hyderabad Press Club.
Speakers from Civil society, NGO’s attended this seminar Mr. Gustafa Baloch, Madam Nazeer Qurashi Vice President of Sindh Aurt Tanzeem, Dr.Shankar from Sindh Secular Forum, Ranomal Coordinator PHS, Hero Comerate, Advocate Haman Dass and Advocate Shahnawaz Jingi gives speeches. All three girls’ parents were presented in the seminar with their families. The speakers in the seminar demanded that the Government official people should resolve the minority rights of Sindh and call to solve the problems.In this seminar we have discussed the issues of the Hindu Marriage act and Force fully conversion cases. Pakistan Hindu Seva Legal Advisor Advocate Haman Dass speaks about the facts and findings of recent cases of forcefully conversions of 12 Hindu Girls within 2 months.In another programme, Advocate Veerji Kholi, attached to various Hindu rights groups in Pakistan, led a march near Hyderabad Press Club to raise a voice to free Pakistani minorities from an unbearable Islamic bondage. .Input Courtesy: REAL | PHS. [h=3]Share this:[/h]
Kashmiri Muslims hold Pakistani flags as they shout pro-Pakistan slogans during a protest against Indian rule near the Jamia Masjid mosque in Srinagar on August 21, 2015. AFP
SRINAGAR: The flags of Pakistan were raised here on Friday ahead of talks scheduled to be held between the national security advisers (NSAs) of India and Pakistan. The flags were seen near Jamia Masjid in Nowhatta. Kashmiri leader Shabbir Shah said the Indian government should review its rigid stand over the talks because its stand was very weak. Know more: Kashmiri leader waves Pakistani flag at rally in Srinagar Mr Shah told the ANI news agency: Discussions (between India and Pakistan) wont make progress without the Kashmir issue.... It is not right to dictate the government of Pakistan that it should not meet the Hurriyat leaders. Government of India should reject this rigidness; their stand is very weak. He said the Kashmir issue was very important and if the Indian government wanted to discuss it with the Kashmiri leaders they were ready for a dialogue. Meanwhile, the high court of Jammu and Kashmir quashed on Friday the detention under the Public Safety Act of Kashmiri leader Masarat Alam who was arrested for allegedly hoisting Pakistani flags and chanting anti-India slogans. Justice Hasnain Masoodi, who had earlier reserved his order on the petition filed by Mr Alams counsel, quashed the detention of the 45-year-old leader. Mr Alam was arrested on April 17 for allegedly raising Pakistani flags and chanting anti-India slogans during a rally organised by the Hurriyat Conference to welcome Syed Ali Shah Geelani from New Delhi. Police had registered a case against several leaders including Hurriyat Confe*rence chairman Geelani for activities like hoisting the Pakistani flag. By arrangement with the Times of India
Pakistani Flag Raised in Assam, as Assam wants to Join Pakistan
District Deputy Commissioner George Basumatary was transferred and Superintendent of Police Anup Kumar Singh suspended for allegedly failing to control the situation, official sources said.
The eight burnt bodies were found from Bodo villages of Sonaripara and Jhargaon villages, under Udalguri police station, which were attacked by illegal migrants with bows and arrows in the wee hours.
Besides setting ablaze houses in the two villages, several other dwellings in a neighbouring hamlet were also torched, the sources said.
The police shot dead two persons when they were trying to set fire to Bodo houses at Bhakatpara where a shoot-at-sight order is in vogue, they said adding about 50 persons were injured in the clashes so far.
Two bodies were found on Friday from a village under Rowta police station even as arson and looting in neighbouring Darrang district forced the administration to impose curfew in Dalgaon and Dhola on Friday and in Udalguri on Saturday.
Over 25 serious burn injury victims were shifted to the Gauhati Medical College Hospital while others were admitted to local hospitals.
Meanwhile, media persons saw a Pakistani flag in Sonaripara and Mohanpur villages and took photographs of them. Local television channels also ran footage of the flags. Officials and security forces denied any knowledge of the presence of the flags. 12 killed, Pak flags sighted in Assam - Express India
[h=1]International Response Needed: Pak Govt. Must Return Anjlee Meghwar To Her Home.[/h][h=3]Return of Rinkle Kumari.[/h][h=3]Same Abduction. Conversion. forced Marriage. [/h][h=3]International Response Is Needed to stop Forceful Conversion and Marriage of Minority Hindu Girls by Bully Muslims in Pakistan. [/h][h=2]Pak Govt. Must Return Anjlee Meghwar to Her Home with Immediate Effect.[/h]
Anjlee Meghwar was abducted from her home in Pakistan by Muslim miscreants on Oct 23rd, 2014
HENB |Delhi and Karachi | 4 Nov 2014::Anjlee Kumari Meghwar, daughter of schoolteacher Kundan Mal Meghwar, a resident of Mustafa Abad Mohalla, disappeared a week ago, residents said. Subsequently, rumours surfaced that she had eloped with Riaz Sial, son of Anwar Sial, a resident of Maswan Mohalla. The girl’s parents and community, however, allege that she was kidnapped and forcibly converted to Islam.The alleged forced conversion of the Hindu girl, identified as Anjlee Kumari Meghwar, has triggered protests from her community in the Sukkur district.The girl’s parents and community alleged that she was kidnapped and forcibly converted to Islam. Anjali was handed over to the police with help of an influential figure of Daharki, but the boy is yet to be arrested. The police said Anjali had converted to Islam at Dargah Bharchoondi Sharif and also recorded her statement under Section 164 in a court in Sadiqabad.The Hindu community observed a shutter-down strike in the town, demanding the girl be handed over to her parents. An official at Daharki police station said that Anjali is still in their custody.Mukhi (chief) of the Meghwar community, Jaswant Meghwar, endorses Namo Mal. “Anjali is just 12-years-old and therefore neither can she marry, nor can she choose another religion of her free will,” he said, demanding of the police to hand over the girl to the parents.According to JFH (Justice For Hindus, a US based org working for Hindu Rights) sources, Anjlee Meghwar is a 12 year old Hindu girl who was kidnapped from her home at Massan Street in Daherki Pakistan on October 23rd, 2014. The same outfit, one Mr. Pir Abdul Haq (aka Mian Mitho), who was responsible for the alleged kidnapping and forced conversion of Rinkle Kumari is said to be behind Anjlee’s kidnapping as well. Read about her case (here). After Angli was officially reported to be abducted by her parents (see FIR below) she was brought before Pakistan magistrate Atta Ullah Sheikh who verified her age and identity, but refused to return her to her parents. Anjlee Meghwar has since been sent to the Majida Rizvi ‘s shelter home in Karachi Pakistan. Abductions and forced conversions of Hindu girls in Pakistan by Islamist outfits is all too common and must stop. Angli Meghawar belongs with her parents and not in a shelter home. JFH will be working with Hindus internationally to stage demonstrations on Anjlee’s behalf. We ask that the Pakistan embassies and consulates in America and other nations take action to return Angli to her parents safely. We will remain vigilant on this case until Justice is served. See list of people you can call below.Hindu Existence Forum urges intervention of Govt of India to get Anjlee Meghwar to her parents at home.
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