Posts Tagged ‘Hindu’

What the ages couldn’t accomplish... The hills of the Salt Range are amongst the oldest on earth, the valleys of the Salt Range amongst the most haunting on earth. In the Kahoon Valley, over which the fingers of the Almighty must have tarried as He went about shaping it, is a site sacred to the Hindu religion. This is the ancient temple [...]

کسی بھی ملک کی آزادیٴ ترقیٴ خوشحالی اور استحکام کا اندازہ اس امر سے لگایا جاسکتا ہے کہ اس میں بسنے والی اقلیتیں کتنی مطمئن اور خوشحال ہیں۔ علاوہ ازیں ان کو کس حد تک قومی دھارے اور معاشرے سے ہم [...]

مذہبی اقلیتوں کے حقوق اور آزادیوں کی پامالی عالمی انسانی حقوق کے تقاضوں اور قوانین کا لب و لباب یہی ہے کہ تمام انسان آزاد پیدا ہوتے ہیں لہٰذا تمام انسان احترام اور حقوق میں مساوی حیثیت کے حامل [...]

When our country (Pakistan) is devastated by sectarian genocide & targeted persecution, rural areas of sufistic Sindh has maintained its’ shining example of religious tolerance & pluralism in general. The majority of the country’s Hindus reside here & they have a history of tranquil co-existence with Muslims. The two communities [...]

I am not an infidel, nor must I be labelled as one. My love for colors is not my crime. My crime is my indolence as a spectator of undue treatment that even I could nakedly feel while belonging to the mainstream religious Muslim community. Regardless of what beheld many intrigued minds--the festival was beautiful. To those following Hindu [...]

A bomb explodes in a market, some 80 people die and 100s get injured. Can anyone tell me the identity of those who lost their lives? Do bombs differentiate when they explode that I am only going to hurt the person belonging to this faith, this ethnicity or the one who speaks this language? Energy crisis is the worst ever in our history, is it [...]

We at LUBP always condemn all sorts of religious persecution and violence against Pakistan's oppressed groups in the strongest possible terms. Meanwhile, the religious persecution of the infidels (read non-Muslims) by the fanatic mindset continues. It is not uncommon in Islamic Republic of Pakistan that minor girls and even married women from [...]

With Thanks : Express Tribune  By Saba Imtiaz / Sameer Mandhro MATLI/TM KHAN: Money, jobs and a debt-free life: It sounds like a sweet deal for many of the Hindu labourers in Matli, but it comes with strings attached — convert to Islam. Hundreds of Hindus in the area have converted to Islam in the past few years, courtesy [...]

Given the scope of problems facing the people of Balochistan, from a security establishment that abducts at will anyone it considers a threat to chronic underdevelopment, the plight of the Hindu community in the province has not been given the attention it deserves. Estimated to number about 200,000, Hindus in Balochistan have been the victims of [...]

1) Introduction The tension between Muslims and non-Muslims, in particular Jews and Christians, as a result of the events of September 11, 2001 and beyond has made the world of ours far more intolerant and insecure than it was before. Many political, social, economic, and religious causes have been attributed to this alarming tendency. One [...]

We are pleased to post this news report, published in The Times of India, which provides a unique insight into how the Hindus observe Muharram as a mark of respect with a message of religious harmony in the remote Muthuvanthidal hamlet in Sivaganga district. We believe without acknowledging the respective beliefs of others we can't become [...]

Blood, meat and hides marked the first day of Eid-ul-Azha in Pakistan. While most Muslims celebrated their holy festival by sacrificing animals, some decided to achieve new levels of faith by targeting Hindus in Shikarpur. Three doctors were shot dead in broad daylight in Chak Town, allegedly, after a conflict arose between the Bhayo tribe and the [...]

Editor's Note: Curriculum reform is the need of the hour. In the last couple of days, 3 Pakistani Hindu doctors have been killed and Pakistan's peaceful, hardworking and patriotic Hindu, Christain and Ahmadi muslims face the brunt of violence and bigotry.  While this goes on unabated, the Baloch and Shia muslims also face frequent attacks. This [...]

Hardly a day of the great murder of the history of Sindh passed by, that 72 years back, Hindu mystic singer, Bhaghat Kanwar Ram, was killed near Shikarpur, that we always remember him on his anniversary day, 1st Nov. We have got a blow due to another shock that three Hindu doctors have been killed by the Bhayo Tribe in Shikarpur. Prima Facie it [...]

LUBP wishes its readers a Happy Diwali, a festival which marks the triumph of good over evil, colorful rangolis and firecrackers. This is a festive time for many Pakistani Hindus and all those who celebrate open-heartedness, mirth and joy!  Pakistan is the epicenter of great culture and diversity. Let us embrace and celebrate [...]

Pakistan's One Man Hindu Newspaper: The Message Is Peace A rural bootblack with an antiquated PC spreads the good word. Print lives. Source: Take Part On your next visit to southern Pakistan, look up Harji Lal. Lal is a man with a vision, with a mission, and with a desktop PC on his shoulder. Once a week, Lal cleans and jerks his bulky [...]

Editor's note: LUBP stands with its fellow Pakistani Hindus in these troubling times.   While more is being written about Balochistan, most urban writers wilfully obfuscate the role of the primary agency that is calling the shots in Balochistan. Hint, its NOT the elected Government.  After dumping the dead bodies of Baloch activist youth to [...]

Music has power to bind souls, saturate valor, associate humanity, and express feelings of love, care, happiness and pain, it has also great power to pacify. The traditional music and folk songs of the subcontinent particularly connect various religions and attach people i.e Qawwali is a vibrant musical tradition that stretches back more than [...]

By Mark Magnier They sat in the dark for decades, waiting on the shelves of an abandoned library, the laughter and tears that once defined their lives all but forgotten. Dictatorships rose and fell. India and Pakistan detonated atomic bombs. All the while, the ashes were housed in Karachi's Hindu Cremation Ground, a several-acre legacy of [...]

The following two incidents should be a source of shame to all Pakistanis.  The first instance involves our dear Sikh Pakistani brothers and sisters and this is how Express Tribune reported it: “The Sikh community in Lahore have been prevented from observing a religious celebration at a gurdwara, their musical equipment thrown out and their [...]

By Anthony Permal A lot has been written about the plight of minorities in Pakistan – some by minorities themselves but mostly by the majority. In most such reports, analyses and blogs, the focus has been on the aggressive tactics used by a violent and regressive few to intimidate and persecute the middle to lower-middle class of [...]

Hindus “Rights movement" launches a campaign to seek justice and to limit violence and harassment by landlords. The court in Rawalpindi exonerates three Christians of blasphemy, now there are fears of retaliation by religious fundamentalists. Pakistani Hindu girls are facing an increasing risk of being abducted, forcibly married and [...]

Pakistan was envisioned as a progressive, democratic and tolerant society, which, while retaining a Muslim majority, would give equal rights to its non-Muslim citizens. Without calling it a secular state, Jinnah and his modernist Muslim colleagues believed that Pakistan would improve its people’s socio economic conditions, and that people of all [...]

Related : 1000 year old Hindu temple in Pak in desperate need of upkeep Will Pakistan wake up to it? Apprehensions of Pakistani Hindus The Pakistan Peoples' Party has been a sole voice for the minorities of Pakistan. We today face a very gloomy period of Pakistan's history. The unfortunate Gojra incident and the assassination of [...]

The following is excerpted from the Archbishop Desmond Tutu's new book, 'God Is Not A Christian: And Other Provocations.' This talk also comes from a forum in Britain, where Tutu addressed leaders of different faiths during a mission to the city of Birmingham in 1989. They tell the story of a drunk who crossed the street and accosted a [...]

Editor's Note: For how long must our fellow Pakistanis be subjected to these horrors just because they don't share the faith of the majority.  The right to practice one's faith freely is the fundemental right in democracies and is also practiced by all other faiths including Islam.  Pakistan's Christain and Hindu communities are amongst the most [...]

روزانہ جسارت و امت - اسرئیل کے ایک یہودی اخبار الخلافہ نے خبر دی ہے کہ اسامہ بن لادن اصل میں ایک ہندو انتہا پسند تنظیم وشوا ہندو پرشاد کا سر گرم رکن تھا اس کا اصل مذہب ہندو اور نام نارائن بگوان [...]

This year, according to the US Commission on International Religious Freedom USCIRF report, 14 countries were designated as countries of particular concern (CPC) since “those governments have engaged in -- or tolerated -- particularly severe violations of religious freedom.” Burma, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea), [...]

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LUBP has always voiced concerns over the deteriorating situation of minorities in Pakistan. This state of affairs has further aggravated during the past few months. From two high profile assassinations in the federal capital for their bold opposition to discriminatory laws against the minorities, the situation is rapidly worsening for minorities [...]

Blog Cross Post : Hinduexistence Karachi , May 12 (ANI): Belying Pakistan governments tall claims regarding upkeep of Hindus worship places and other sites, a 1000-year-old Hindu temple - Shri Varun Dev Mandir - in Monora in Pakistan is lying in a dilapidated state. The temples caretaker has written to the concerned authorities for [...]

Related Article: Pakistani Hindu families seek political asylum in India Nine years and one month after her husband and former Balochistan minister Abadan Faridoun Abadan was kidnapped from his hometown Quetta, businesswoman Niloufar Abadan has met the same fate. It is the first time that a known woman has been kidnapped for ransom in [...]

Related articles: Holi festival and Pakistani Hindus LUBP Archive on Hindus Holi day: Good vs evil, not white vs colour KARACHI: Draped in white with an unlimited supply of coloured water and powder and glasses of bhang – you are now prepared for Holi. But the festival of joy is not just about colour and fun, it’s about the arrival of [...]

The issue of minorities was raised through points of order, by PPP’s Nawab Moammad Yusuf Talpur and Ms Palwasha Khan, and PML-Q’s Akram Masih Gill particularly in the context of kidnappings for ransom in Sindh province and the resignation of a Hindu member of the provincial assembly there and his reported migration to India. As per the news [...]

International Minorities Alliance demands Pakistan to be run according to the vision of its founder. International Minorities’ Conference 2011 was organized by International Minorities Alliance on “Equal Citizenship, Equal Rights" at Avari Hotel, Lahore, Pakistan on Jan 23, 2011. The historical Conference was presided over by a renowned [...]

We talk about minorities in India but are strangely unaware of the existence of the same in neighbouring Pakistan. Even before Independence Hindus, Sikhs, Parsis, Jews and Christians existed in undivided India. There was large scale migration/exodus post partition (gadar) on either side. Despite being unofficially classified as 'terror state', [...]

According to the report published in various national 'Dailies' and in international media with regard to the Pakistani Hindu families seek asylum in India. The Times of India report says Kidnapping, killing force Pak Hindus to seek political asylum in India. The Hindu says In the latest incident in that country targeting minorities, an abducted [...]

Source: DNA, Dec 24, 2010 The kidnapping of Pakistan’s most revered Hindu spiritual leader, 85-year old Lakki Chand Garji, of Kali Mata Mandir in Balochistan’s Kalat district, has caused widespread protests by Hindus. Garji was travelling from Kalat to Khuzdar area to attend a marriage ceremony when he was intercepted by armed men and [...]

Related articles: LUBP Archive on Karbala Non-Muslims’ homage to Imam Hussain ibn e Ali (AS) – by Ali Salman Alvi In selecting this post, we at the LUBP stand by the pluralist traditions of our land. We stand with our Hindu and Christain Pakistani brothers and sisters (and followers of other religions and faiths) and want to [...]

Related articles: A tale of two Pakistani girls which remains hidden in other more important news No Place for Ahmadi Body in a Muslim graveyard LUBP Archive on Hindu (tag) THERE is no end to the injustices suffered by Pakistan`s minority communities because of the regressive thinking of many among the dominant religious group. As the [...]