Tag: #Minorities
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Minorities are safe in Pakistan: Governor
Lahore: Governor Punjab Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar said that minorities are safe in Pakistan. The government is ensuring complete religious freedom for minorities. All sectors, including the government, are working together to promote interfaith harmony in Pakistan. International human rights bodies, including the United Nations, must take note of the atrocities being committed against the minorities…
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FM Qureshi: Pakistan will have religious tolerance
Foreign Minister (FM) Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that Pakistan is determined to use all its efforts for the promotion of peace and harmony among different religions, cultures and civilizations. “The West should not encourage the misuse of freedom of expression. Islam is a religion of peace which does not accept violence and extremism.…
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India’s so-called democracy in danger?
This opinion has been shared Malik Uman Sarfraz. India, the world’s largest democracy and a self-proclaimed secular state, has reached the brink of extremism under the Modi government. Hindu nationalism has become the backbone of Indian democracy, while Christians, Muslims and other nationalities have lost faith in Modi’s particular Hindu democracy. The RSS has played…
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Pakistan Observes National Minority Day to Honor Minorities
Today, on 11th August, National Minority Day is being observed by the populace, in recognition and honor of the minorities who sacrificed for the nation and contributed to its progression. In a message released by the Prime Minister of Pakistan, on his official website, he has stated that on this day he wished to reiterate…
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Myanmar’s rebel areas brace for thousands fleeing unrest
Bangkok,(24th March, 2021, 07:19 pm) (AFP/APP):Up to 7,000 refugees are expected to flee post-coup unrest in Myanmar’s cities by the end of April, an ethnic rebel group said Wednesday, claiming hundreds were already in militia-controlled areas. Myanmar has been in turmoil since the military ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi from power in a…
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District Administration Haripur conducts “Open Kutchery” to resolve issues of minorities
HARIPUR, Feb 27 (APP): The district administration Saturday decided to conduct ‘Open Kutchery’ on March 1 to resolve the issues of minorities and the transgender community. On the directives of Deputy Commissioner Haripur Cap. (R) Nadeem Nasir, Additional Deputy Commissioner Relief and Human Rights would organize the ‘open kutchery’ at Municipal Hall where he would hear the grievance of…
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Pandemic used as ‘pretext’ to crush dissent: UN chief
UN chief Antonio Guterres criticised countries that are using the pandemic to justify cracking down on dissent
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Minorities in Pakistan, Quaid’s vision & Status of minorities in Quaid-e-Pakistan
The founder and father of the nation of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, was blindly respected and trusted by all, independent of citizens’ confidence, belief with statement of faith. We have seen the advanced nation-states are not home to socially homogenized people but of shifted bunches that may be separated mostly on the grounds of religion,…
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Wazirzada distributes health grant cheques among minority people
Wazirzada, Special Assistant to the Chief Minister on Minority Affairs, distributed cheques worth Rs2.5 million among ailing members of minorities
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Chairman Minorities Rights Commission Calls on CM KPK
The Chairman Minorities Rights Commission called on CM KPK.