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DCW initiates study on the condition of Hindu refugees in Majnu ka Tila
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 18 (ANI): Taking up the issue of plight of Hindu women and child refugees from Pakistan, the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) has launched a study. Issuing a press statement DCW informed that the study will be done on the living condition of the refugees who have be
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Baloch women facing persecution in Pakistan, says Baloch leader
Updated : 8 months, 1 week ago IST
London [UK], May 22 (ANI): The President of the Free Balochistan Movement (FBM), Hyrbyair Marri in a statement from London said that after failing to silence the Baloch voice for their legitimate right to independence, Pakistan is subjecting the Baloch women to enforced disappearances.
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Fearing persecution in Pakistan, Hazara youths undertake perilous journeys
Updated : 11 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Quetta [Pakistan], February 15 (ANI): Fearing targeted extremism and an uncertain future in Pakistan, many Hazara youths are undertaking perilous journeys to Australia and Europe.
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Women, religious minorities continue to face persecution in Pakistan, says
Updated : 1 year ago IST
New York [US], January 17 (ANI): Women, religious minorities, and transgender people in Pakistan continue to face violence, discrimination, and persecution, with authorities failing to provide adequate protection or hold perpetrators to account, according to a US-based rights group.
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US: Hindu advocacy group highlights religious minorities persecution in Pa
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 5 (ANI): An American Hindu advocacy group has hosted a Capitol Hill Speaker Series for US members of Congress and congressional staff to highlight the persecution of religious minorities in Pakistan by state and non-state actors.
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EU speaks for religious minorities in Pakistan
Updated : 1 year, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 18 (ANI): Amid the recent surge in mob violence and religious persecution in Pakistan, the EU Parliament last month called for a review of Pakistan's GSP+ status, citing concerns over the latter's blasphemy laws and poor rights record.
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UN must intervene to protect minorities from persecution in Pakistan, asks
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 25 (ANI): A rights activist from Pakistan, Anila Gulzar has requested the United Nations to intervene and protect the rights of minorities in Pakistan as they have been facing persecution for the past seven decades.
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Delhi Sikhs protest abduction, forcible conversion of granthi's daughter i
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 21 (ANI): Members of the Sikh community in Delhi staged a protest outside the Pakistan High Commission here on Monday against the abduction of the Panja Sahib head granthi's daughter in Pakistan and her forcible conversion to Islam.
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CAA an attempt to give identity to persecuted minority from Pakistan: NGOs
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Mar 6 (ANI): A non-government organisation has said that the minorities facing systematic persecution in Pakistan can be given a new lease of life with the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) recently passed by the Indian Parliament.
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If Hindus will not come to India where else they will go, Italy, asks Redd
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Jan 2 (ANI): Union Minister G Kishan Reddy said here on Wednesday that Hindus facing religious persecution in Pakistan and Bangladesh will naturally "come to India" and not go to "Italy".
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Those opposing Citizenship Act are anti-Dalits: JP Nadda
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 29 (ANI): In a veiled attack at the opposition parties, BJP working president JP Nadda on Sunday said those who are opposing the amended Citizenship Act are 'anti-Dalits' while asserting that around 70 per cent of people who came to India due to religious persecution i
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BJP to reach out to SC community over CAA, explain how it has benefited Da
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 28 (ANI): To counter opposition over its protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act, BJP will hold a meeting on Sunday with Dalit community leaders and highlight how the new law has benefitted the community whose members have to come to India in large numbers af
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