Posts Tagged ‘Hindu’

Christians in India are asking U.S. President Barack Obama to stand up for issues such as human rights, peace, justice, and dialogue, says Cardinal Oswald Gracias, Archbishop of Bombay and Chairman of the Bishops' Conference of India, in an interview. Obama, on the first leg of his Asian trip, will stop in India from November 6 to 8. Cardinal [...]

Divali,  Deepavali or festival of lights is an important five-day festival  occurring between mid-October and mid-November, as it is based on lunisolar Hindu Calendar It is celebrated in almost all the South Asian countries by the followers of  Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism. All of them have their own interpretations related to the [...]

The writer is a PML-Q MNA marvi.memon@tribune.com.pk It’s not easy these days being a Hindu in Pakistan. The number of cases of members of the Hindu community being kidnapped for ransom is on the rise, both in Sindh and in Balochistan. While recently attending a meeting of the National Assembly’s Standing Committee for Law and Justice, I [...]

I recently came across a comment by the President and PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari, which really struck me for its succinct and bold portrayal of the Pakistani media. The President was countering one of the many false impressions created by a media industry that has clearly lost any semblance of objectivity. He said, “This impression is [...]

Jamia Binoria Al Aalmia, a religious seminary located at the Industrial area of  Karachi(i.e SITE) has a bad name among its other contemporaries for alleged involvement in grabbing land of commercial value with its pressuring tactics. It is said if someone from the authorities raise objections on their activities faces religious persecution as he [...]

In rare show of inter-faith solidarity, Hindu community of Lahore postponed the birth celebration of Lord krishna because of attack at Karbala Gamey Shah attack on Youm-Ali procession  . Tribune LAHROE: The Janam Ashtami (the birthday of Lord Krishna) was celebrated on Thursday at the Krishna Temple. Hindus and representatives of the [...]

We are a people blessed with time but a country for which time is running short. Clarity is a rare commodity; clarity in terms of our actions, our thinking, judicious dispensation of aid and even our worldviews.I had written earlier on how we are ideological schizophrenics. We want to be part of the global world community. Our actions, however, do [...]

The more mischievous among us even prayed to the Almighty to let the Saudis fall in love with this eminent ‘Islamic scholar’ and fund his outlandish theories, leaving television viewers ever so grateful for keeping him there. But, alas, he is set to make a comeback. This time he would be seen on a different channel. Of course, just [...]

Source: View Point Our foreign policy is India-centric and any policy regarding India is vetted and approved by the Army. Pakistan Army is the real force behind our policy towards India Mazhar Jadoon Eminent historian and scholar Dr Mubarak Ali traces back the history of sub-continent and tries to find out what ails the Pakistan-India [...]

with thanks : THENEWS Friday, July 09, 2010 By Rabia Ali Karachi As many as 60 Hindu men, women and children were forced into abandoning their homes in Memon Goth and taking refuge in a cattle pen all because of a boy from their community who drank water from a cooler placed outside a mosque, police officials and community members told [...]

He is standing by the window in this particular instant of time, trying to see through its blurry glass. Outside the window, autumn of Nordic Europe is descending down the pale, yellowish Aspen trees in the suburbs of Stockholm. Suddenly, disturbing noise of phone bell breaks the silence and...... No, wait!!  Let's travel through the time and [...]

Related post: Jagan Nath Azad did not write Pakistan’s first national anthem – by Dr Safdar Mehmood Cross Posted from Beena Sarwar's Blog Complete version of the tarana by the Lahore-based poet Jagan Nath Azad, who was asked by Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah to write Pakistan’s first anthem. Thanks to his son Chander K. Azad in Jammu [...]

Chief Justice of Lahore High Court, Justice Khawaja Sharif, has spoken once again, with the hate speech and prejudice which are his usual characteristics. Justice Sharif is notorious for his unflinching support for PML-N and Taliban and for his hostility towards liberal and secular sections of Pakistani society. His latest remarks against our [...]

Here are two news items (which remain hidden in the more important headlines) from today's newspapers. These news items once again reveal the typically hypocritical, class- and religion-centric and misogynistic nature of Pakistani society. The first story is about a protest by certain staunch Muslims against the burial of a Hindu girl (child) [...]

Picture Source: BBC Urdu Pakistani Hindus to miss Holi celebrations February 23, 2010, Islamabad: The few Pakistani Hindus, who have made the federal capital their home, will miss splashing colours at each other as they brace up for a quiet Holi. Many of the Hindus, most of whom are businessmen from Sindh province, have taken on Muslim [...]

Posted by: Jarri MirzaGuest blog: Humza IkramToday world is celebrating International tolerance day but sadly Pakistani society is getting more and more intolerant. Our right wing (more...)

SANGH PARIVAR- THE FAR RIGHT FRINGE By Qudrat Ullah Launched by the inspired volunteers of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) with the sole purpose of attaining Gandhian Swaraj, the loose conglomerate of a total of 31 zealot organizations called Sangh Parivar has emerged as the multi headed hydra of the Hindu far right i (more...)

A thought provoking article by Riaz Sohail on BBC Urdu dot com, comparing the treatment of peacocks in Sindh by Muslims versus Hindus.Shame on those Muslims who claim that their religion is a message of peace for all living creatures but whose actual practices are in direct opposition to their religious principles. Sharm tum ko magar naheen [...]

By Qudrat Ullah The Gojra inferno has once again highlighted the need to reassess our treatment of Pakistan’s most potential asset- the non Muslim Pakistanis and decide the future strategy in the light of past mistakes. One positive aftermath of this sad frenzy is that the media has extensively discussed our policy (if there is any) of [...]

To our Hindu brothers and sisters, we have only this much to say. "We are sorry. This is not Jinnah's Pakistan. This is Mullah Omar's, Qazi Hussain Ahmed's and General Hamid Gul's Pakistan." ...   More then 200,000 people have fled the fighting in Fata to different camps in Pakistan.—AP/File Monday, 09 Mar, [...]

Peace is the only way out By Kuldip Nayar IT is a shame that only 13 out of 760 MPs were present recently to pay tribute to the watch and ward personnel shot dead on Dec 13 in the 2001 attack on the Indian parliament. I was then a member of the Rajya Sabha. The house had finished question hour and some members had called it a day. I was one [...]

Hindu fundamentalismALMOST anything is digestible in the heat of the moment. When Mumbai came under attack, most of Pakistan mourned as well. And why not, for who other than Pakistanis have been most brutalised by terrorism in the 21st century? We understand the pain, the trauma, the scarring of a collective psyche. When Indian leaders resorted to [...]

Road that leads nowhereBy Kuldip NayarIT is difficult to say whether the assembly elections in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Chhattisgarh, Delhi and Mizoram are the semi-finals.The voters were agitated and angry over the terror attack on Mumbai on Nov 26 and it is difficult to say how they would have voted in normal times. There [...]

A few men with gunsSaturday, November 29, 2008 (The News)By Aakar PatelThe writer is a former newspaper editor who lives in Bombay. Among the papers he has edited is Mid-day, an afternoon paper that is published from the cityThe men who attacked Bombay knew who they were looking for – and they knew where to find them. Cafe Leopold on the Colaba [...]

At least 10 people, including a serving Lieutenant Colonel Prashad Srikant Purohit and a Hindu monk and nun, have been arrested over alleged involvement in bomb explosions that killed four people in the Muslim-dominated town of Malegaon in the western Maharashtra state in India. The network is linked to another arrested former major Ramesh [...]

Indeed, it is not just ISI (or 'was not' just ISI) that has (had) connections with organizations which are (were?) involved in terrorist/sectarian activities in and outside Pakistan. Indian Army too does not seem to be not much different.BJP = Jamaat-e-Islami, MMA, (and other right wing parties in Pakistan)Vishwa Hindu Preshad = All sectarian and [...]