| Submit your comments on this article |
| India-Pakistan |
| 27 temple, holy books desecration cases in half a year |
| 2014-05-23 |
| [DAWN] KARACHI: Over 27 incidents of desecration of temples and holy books of religious minorities in the past six months have been causing insecurity among them, a conference on minority rights was informed on Wednesday. At the programme, organised by South Asia Partnership, speakers said that Pakistain had signed International Convention on Civil and Political Rights in April 2008 and ratified it in June 2010 and the country was morally bound to make laws in its conformity but nothing much had been done. PPP politician Dr Lalchand said that terrorists, who were surely fewer in number, were destroying the temples and threatening the minority community members under a conspiracy so that they leave their country. He said that the evil designs of the bully boyz could be foiled with the help of saner elements, who are in large numbers, in society. PTI politician Lalchand Malhi said that forced conversions and forced marriages of young and minor Hindu community girls were major issues and the PTI was a working on it so that comprehensive legislation could be formulated and this serious issue was tackled properly. He said that need of the hour was to raise awareness among the masses so that the mindset of society could be changed. A former politician of the PPP Pitamber Shiwani said that though everybody was equal before the law, the minority community was not treated equally, or even fairly, and eventually most of the rights provided by the law were not enjoyed by non-Mohammedans. Senior human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... activist Rochiram said that blasphemy laws were grossly misused but nobody wanted to talk about the issue. He demanded that before booking anyone in a blasphemy case, the matter be heard by a high court judge. Currently, he said, police officials under mob pressure registered blasphemy cases against anyone. Once the case was registered, the life of the suspect was put at risk, he said, adding that many people had been killed even in cop shoppes and jails this way. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 The Hindus are fleeing at such a rate that India is taking notice of the numbers showing up at the border, there is a substantial Ahmadi community now in Texas, the Jews snuck out in the Fifties, after Pakistan joined the Arab war against Israel -- thanks in part to the kind wife of a Canadian embassy official... |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2014-05-23 15:06 |