75 Years After Partition, Hindus Still Treated Like Second-Class Citizens in Indian Subcontinent
1 year, 11 months ago

75 Years After Partition, Hindus Still Treated Like Second-Class Citizens in Indian Subcontinent

News 18  

On 5 January, Bangladesh National Hindu Grand Alliance tabled its annual report of atrocities on Bangladeshi minorities. Pakistan didn’t even have a legal provision to register Hindu marriages until 2017 when a law was passed in the Pakistani senate. Seventy-five years have passed since Partition but even today certain rights such as divorce, adoption and inheritance evade Hindus of Pakistan. Hindus are also discriminated against in terms of property rights as Bangladesh has inherited a controversial vested property law from Pakistan. Under this law, state-mediated deprivation of property rights of Hindus who were termed as “enemies” after the 1965 India-Pakistan war continues unabated even after liberation of Bangladesh in 1971.

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India's Stunned Response to Pakistan at UNSC: A Call for Action on Minority Women's Safety
1 month, 4 weeks ago

India's Stunned Response to Pakistan at UNSC: A Call for Action on Minority Women's Safety

India TV News  

India expressed deep disappointment and condemnation over Pakistan's provocative remarks and political propaganda surrounding the Kashmir issue at the UN Security Council meeting. The Indian Permanent Representative, P Harish, stated that the condition of women belonging to minority communities, particularly Hindus, Sikhs, and Christians, remains abysmal, with an estimated 1,000 women subjected to forced religious conversions and marriages annually. Harish …

India Slams Pakistan at UNSC Over Mischievous Provocation Points to Forced Conversions Marriages of Minority Women
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1 month, 4 weeks ago

India Slams Pakistan at UNSC Over Mischievous Provocation Points to Forced Conversions Marriages of Minority Women

ABP News  

India strongly condemned Pakistan's provocative statements at the UNSC, highlighting the plight of women belonging to minority communities, particularly Hindus, Sikhs and Christians. The Indian representative emphasized the deplorable conditions of women in the country, including forced conversions and marriages, and called for a comprehensive approach to sustainable peace that includes women's full participation in politics, governance, and economic recovery.

The CAA, Muslim exclusion and the lens of the right
9 months ago

The CAA, Muslim exclusion and the lens of the right

The Hindu  

Union Home Minister Amit Shah, while speaking at a conclave recently, gave two reasons, during the discussion, for the exclusion of Muslims from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh in the recently implemented Citizenship Act, 2019. If the Hindu right seeks to justify Muslim exclusion owing to Partition, it needs to be blamed for deliberately failing to appreciate the resistance that Muslims …

Fact Check Pakistan Has Not Implemented Citizenship Amendment Act For Indian Muslims
9 months, 1 week ago

Fact Check Pakistan Has Not Implemented Citizenship Amendment Act For Indian Muslims

ABP News  

Logically Facts contacted two Pakistani journalists who confirmed that the viral claim on social media is 'totally wrong' and has 'no basis.' Amid discussions around this law, a screenshot purportedly from an X post by Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has gone viral on social media. The text in the screenshot reads: “To counter Indian Govt's undemocratic and communal CAA, …

MHA says CAA doesn’t impact Indian Muslims, they enjoy equal rights like Hindus
9 months, 1 week ago

MHA says CAA doesn’t impact Indian Muslims, they enjoy equal rights like Hindus

Hindustan Times  

The ministry of home affairs on Tuesday sought to allay fears among the Muslim community about the Citizenship Amendment Act saying the law doesn’t impact them as they enjoy equal rights like their Hindu counterparts and that no Indian citizens would be asked to produce any document to prove his or her nationality. No Indian citizen would be asked to …

India's new citizenship law excludes Muslims. Here's what to know
9 months, 1 week ago

India's new citizenship law excludes Muslims. Here's what to know

Hindustan Times  

NEW DELHI — India has implemented a citizenship law that excludes Muslims, a minority community whose concerns have heightened under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government. Critics argue that the law is further evidence that Modi’s government is trying to reshape the country into a Hindu state and marginalize Muslims. It also amends the old law, which prevents illegal …

Legally Speaking | The quest for equality, which is at the heart of the Uttarakhand UCC bill, is flawed
10 months, 1 week ago

Legally Speaking | The quest for equality, which is at the heart of the Uttarakhand UCC bill, is flawed

Hindustan Times  

Uttarakhand's Uniform Civil Code bill, recently passed by the state assembly session, has been a subject of intense discussion. While criminal laws apply to all Indian citizens without regard to religion, caste, race, or creed, distinct religious communities are governed by independent religious laws known as personal laws in case of civil matters such as marriage, divorce, maintenance, guardianship, succession, …

Indian state passes uniform marriage legislation opposed by Muslims as a Hindu code applied to all
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Indian state passes uniform marriage legislation opposed by Muslims as a Hindu code applied to all

Associated Press  

LUCKNOW, India — An Indian state has approved an unprecedented uniform code for marriage, divorce, adoption and inheritance for Hindus, Muslims and other religious communities under new legislation that also requires couples that live together to register with the government or face punishment. Muslim leaders and others oppose the Uniform Civil Code initiated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu Nationalist …

From the Archives: ‘Treat minorities fairly’, Gandhi's advice to Hindus
1 year, 2 months ago

From the Archives: ‘Treat minorities fairly’, Gandhi's advice to Hindus

Hindustan Times  

The division of India with subdivision of some provinces puts us on our mettle, says a message issued by Mahatma Gandhi, and read out in place of his usual speech at the prayer meeting on Monday, his silence day. The message adds: “The papers today talk of a grand ceremonial to take place in London over the division of India …

'Put your own house in order': India slams Pakistan at UNGA over abysmal human rights record, terrorism
1 year, 3 months ago

'Put your own house in order': India slams Pakistan at UNGA over abysmal human rights record, terrorism

India TV News  

Exercising India's Right of Reply at the 78th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, First Secretary at UN for the second UNGA committee Petal Gehlot on Sunday lashed out at Pakistan for becoming a "habitual offender" of misusing multilateral forums to peddle "baseless and malicious" propaganda and called out the human rights abuses against minorities in the country. A …

CAA back in limelight as Pakistani Hindus face renewed attack
1 year, 5 months ago

CAA back in limelight as Pakistani Hindus face renewed attack

Firstpost  

Hindus in Pakistan are often treated as second-class citizens and experience systematic discrimination in various aspects of life, including housing, jobs, and access to government welfare The idea of Pakistan was founded on the Two-Nation Theory, which proposed that Hindus and Muslims in South Asia could not coexist peacefully and needed separate nations. Over time, anti-Hindu riots and discrimination further …

Book Review: The Fraught Battles to Legalise Caste Equality
1 year, 6 months ago

Book Review: The Fraught Battles to Legalise Caste Equality

The Quint  

Mitta has divided his book in five thematic sections, examining legislations and legislative debates about crime, inheritance, marriage, access to public spaces, access to temples, untouchability, and mass killings of Dalits in post-independence India. Since the author has set the limit of looking at the intersection of caste and law, his archival material primarily includes legislative debates, enactments and court …

Pakistan: Minor Hindu girl kidnapped, converted and married to a 55-year-old
1 year, 6 months ago

Pakistan: Minor Hindu girl kidnapped, converted and married to a 55-year-old

Op India  

The radicalisation of Pakistani Muslim society has resulted in yet another ghastly case of abduction and forced conversion of a minor Hindu girl in the country. According to news reports, a 9-year-old Hindu girl was kidnapped from her house earlier this month by a 55-year-old man in Sindh province who proceeded to marry her. According to Indian officials, 124 incidents …

Pakistan: Islamabad Passes Law Recognising Hindu Marriage; All You Need to Know
1 year, 8 months ago

Pakistan: Islamabad Passes Law Recognising Hindu Marriage; All You Need to Know

News 18  

In a significant move, a local administration in Pakistan has passed a law which formally recognises Hindu marriages and notifies the rules for a valid marriage. The Islamabad administration in Pakistan has notified the rules for Hindu Marriage Act 2017 allowing members of the minority community to marry in line with their rituals, Dawn reported. The notification titled ‘Islamabad Capital …

‘No religious minority can freely live or practice its religion in Pakistan today’: India at UNHRC
1 year, 9 months ago

‘No religious minority can freely live or practice its religion in Pakistan today’: India at UNHRC

The Hindu  

India on March 3 slammed Pakistan on the issue of religious freedom of minorities at the United Nations Human Rights Council. Using its right to reply, India's representative Seema Pujani slammed her Pakistani counterpart Hina Rabbani Khar saying, "No religious minority can freely live or practice its religion in Pakistan today. Responding to the statement delivered by Pakistani counterpart Hina …

‘Very Much Indian’: 25 Hindu Refugees from Pakistan Living in Rajkot to Cast Vote for First Time in Guj Polls
2 years, 1 month ago

‘Very Much Indian’: 25 Hindu Refugees from Pakistan Living in Rajkot to Cast Vote for First Time in Guj Polls

News 18  

Sunil Dev Maheshwari, a 37-year-old refugee from Pakistan, received a prized possession in August – Indian citizenship. Sunil and 24 other Pakistani Hindu refugees will vote in an Indian election for the first time after being granted citizenship in Rajkot. On August 12, 25 Pakistani Hindu refugees were granted Indian citizenship in Rajkot and it was the happiest moment in …

How non-Muslims from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan can become Indian citizens? MHA explains
2 years, 1 month ago

How non-Muslims from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan can become Indian citizens? MHA explains

Firstpost  

The nine states where Indian citizenship by registration or naturalisation is given under the Citizenship Act, 1955 to non-Muslim minorities from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan are Gujarat, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and Maharashtra New Delhi: The district magistrates of 31 districts and the home secretaries of nine states have been given powers to grant Indian …

Explained: How India grants citizenship to minorities from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan
2 years, 1 month ago

Explained: How India grants citizenship to minorities from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan

Firstpost  

Matters related to citizenship are handled by the Centre but it can delegate powers to state officials. Now the Ministry of Home Affairs has empowered two districts in Gujarat to give citizenship to minority communities from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan under the Citizenship Act, 1955 The Centre will continue to grant citizenship to six minority communities – Hindu, Sikh, Parsi, …

Centre to grant citizenship to minorities of Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan under Citizenship Act, 1955
2 years, 1 month ago

Centre to grant citizenship to minorities of Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan under Citizenship Act, 1955

India TV News  

Highlights Citizenship will be granted under the Citizenship Act, 1955 and not the controversial CAA, 2019 The rules under the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act have not been framed by the govt yet All minorities will have to submit their applications online for citizenship The Central government has decided to grant Indian citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis, and Christians …

Preachy Bilawal should know Pakistan is a graveyard of minorities: As for India, just look at Parsis and Bohras
2 years, 2 months ago

Preachy Bilawal should know Pakistan is a graveyard of minorities: As for India, just look at Parsis and Bohras

Firstpost  

If India’s true minority policy has to be understood and appreciated, one should look at how some of the smallest communities like Parsis, Jews and Buddhists or even Bohras, Ismailis and Ahmadiyyas have been treated Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, speaking at an event in New York on the sidelines of the just concluded UN General Assembly, claimed that …

Janmashtami 2022: 'You have the same rights as I have,' Bangladesh PM tells the Hindu community
2 years, 4 months ago

Janmashtami 2022: 'You have the same rights as I have,' Bangladesh PM tells the Hindu community

Firstpost  

Sheikh Hasina interacted with the Hindu community leaders and urged believers of other faiths not to think of themselves as minorities, saying everyone irrespective of their religions will enjoy equal rights in Bangladesh, a Muslim-majority country Dhaka: The Hindu community in Bangladesh has the “same rights as I have,” said Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, asserting that the number of …

‘If we convert to Islam, will you give us houses?’: Pakistani Hindu refugees ask Centre
2 years, 4 months ago

‘If we convert to Islam, will you give us houses?’: Pakistani Hindu refugees ask Centre

Firstpost  

A Pakistani Hindu who migrated to India in 2014 from Karachi and now lives in Jodhpur awaiting Indian citizenship told how 35,000 refugees such as him have been living in deplorable conditions New Delhi: “If the Hindu refugees from Pakistan, who have been languishing across several cities in India, convert to Islam, will Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri provide them …

Citizenship Amendment Act will not help us: Bangladesh Hindu leader
2 years, 6 months ago

Citizenship Amendment Act will not help us: Bangladesh Hindu leader

The Hindu  

A leading member of the Hindu community of Bangladesh has said that the Citizenship Amendment Act of India will not help them deal with the challenges ahead. Interacting with a visiting team of Indian journalists on Wednesday, June 8, 2022, Monindra Kumar Nath, President, Mohanagar Sarbojoneen Puja Committee said that the community’s real aim is to have a minority affairs …

800 Pakistani Hindus left India after failing to get citizenship, says advocacy group
2 years, 7 months ago

800 Pakistani Hindus left India after failing to get citizenship, says advocacy group

The Hindu  

May 08, 2022 06:28 pm | Updated May 09, 2022 07:57 pm IST - New Delhi Around 800 Pakistani Hindus in Rajasthan, who came to India seeking citizenship on the basis of religious persecution, returned to the neighbouring country in 2021, according to Seemant Lok Sangathan, a group that advocates for the rights of Pakistani minority migrants in India. It …

For Minority Hindus of Bangladesh, It’s A Life of Non-Citizen Without Human Rights
2 years, 10 months ago

For Minority Hindus of Bangladesh, It’s A Life of Non-Citizen Without Human Rights

ABP News  

The oppression, victimisation and instilling of fear among the minority Hindus in Bangladesh continue unabated, with the government, rights organisations and international bodies turning a Nelson’s eye to them. Bangladesh's Hindus face a constant onslaught of government tolerated murder, rape, abduction, forced conversion, land grabs, and more, including a 2009 pogrom that took place right behind a Dhaka police station,” …

Why Hindus Losing Benefits for Uniform Civil Code is Unacceptable
2 years, 10 months ago

Why Hindus Losing Benefits for Uniform Civil Code is Unacceptable

News 18  

Last evening, I came across an ingeniously authored article by someone I venerate for his scholarship. Titled ‘If Uniform Civil Code Means Hindus Losing Benefits Like Hindu Undivided Family, So Be It’, the arguments proffered were acceptable, coherent, and didn’t fall flat on logic, except that Hindus may have to lose benefits for bringing in the Uniform Civil Code. For …

2 Hindu sisters from Pakistan await their Indian citizenship 33 years after taking shelter in India because Pakistan govt is withholding a report: Details
2 years, 11 months ago

2 Hindu sisters from Pakistan await their Indian citizenship 33 years after taking shelter in India because Pakistan govt is withholding a report: Details

Op India  

The journey of two Hindu sisters from Pakistan Sangita and Anita, to get Indian citizenship, has been a tough one. While their father Sewakram and mother Sakhi Bai got Indian citizenship eight years after they came to India, but the ordeal of sisters for citizenship continues, reported Bhaskar. An unending wait for Indian citizenship for Sangita and Anita There is …

Is Amendment to Marriage Act a Precursor to Uniform Civil Code?
2 years, 11 months ago

Is Amendment to Marriage Act a Precursor to Uniform Civil Code?

News 18  

The Modi government has stoked yet another controversy by introducing the Prohibition of Child Marriage Bill, which seeks to raise the marriageable age of women to 21 years, making it uniform for both women and men. Since various Opposition parties, Muslim officials, and Muslim clerics have declared resistance to the notion, they say, the BJP in Uttar Pradesh will be …

Pakistan: 1,000 Hindu and Christian women converted to Islam every year, says activist
3 years, 1 month ago

Pakistan: 1,000 Hindu and Christian women converted to Islam every year, says activist

Op India  

The Islamic country of Pakistan has become a hotbed of violence against women, especially those belonging to minority Hindu, Christian and Sikh communities. She has said that over 1,000 girls belonging to Hindu and Christian communities are forcefully converted to Islam every year in Pakistan. Human Rights activist Ashiknaz Khokhar has also said that the government of Pakistan is not …

'Pro-Pakistan' Elements Trying to Divide Hindus and Muslims in Country: Bangladesh IB Minister
3 years, 1 month ago

'Pro-Pakistan' Elements Trying to Divide Hindus and Muslims in Country: Bangladesh IB Minister

News 18  

The Bangladesh Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has claimed that some elements close to Pakistan — the descendants of 22 per cent people who didn’t vote for the Awami League — are responsible for instigating communal clashes in Bangladesh. During a media interaction at the Kolkata Press Club on Thursday, Mahmud said, “In 1970, Awami League got 298 …

Decoding why minorities in Bangladesh and Pakistan continue to face persecution
3 years, 2 months ago

Decoding why minorities in Bangladesh and Pakistan continue to face persecution

Firstpost  

The root causes behind all the attacks were to thwart dissent, freedom and secularism. In short, minorities at any corner of the world are increasingly at risk of losing their lives, property and religious identity On Thursday, Hindu temples in Bangladesh were vandalised by some unidentified miscreants during Durga Puja celebrations, prompting the government to deploy paramilitary force and Prime …

Human Rights report sheds light on abysmal state of Hindus in Pakistan
3 years, 4 months ago

Human Rights report sheds light on abysmal state of Hindus in Pakistan

Op India  

A 2019 field investigation report by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has reaffirmed an unpleasant reality that is already known for far too long—minorities in Pakistan live under constant fear of persecution as their perpetrators enjoy court sanctions, support from the influential and affluent section of the society and patronage from political leaders. In May 2019, the fact-finding team …

Hindus, Christians being forcibly converted in Pakistan's Sindh: US lawmaker
3 years, 5 months ago

Hindus, Christians being forcibly converted in Pakistan's Sindh: US lawmaker

India Today  

Forced conversion of Hindus and Christians is taking place in Pakistan's Sindh province, an influential American lawmaker has claimed, urging the Biden administration to ensure the region receives US aid. Congressman Brad Sherman also raised alleged human rights issues in Sri Lanka during a Congressional hearing with USAID Administrator Samantha Power. "Sri Lanka's civil war ravished the northern and eastern …

As blood of minorities flows from Pakistan to Bangladesh, CAA needs to roll out soon
4 years ago

As blood of minorities flows from Pakistan to Bangladesh, CAA needs to roll out soon

Firstpost  

A compelling reason for the Centre to roll out the CAA is that the utterly disparaging fate of minorities in neighbouring Islamic nations continues in 2020 Exactly a year ago on 11 December, 2019, the Indian Parliament passed the Citizenship Amendment Act. It was more the act of a civilisation than a nation, extending its protection to persecuted religious minorities …

Pakistan: Hindu homes set on fire to force them to convert to Islam
4 years, 1 month ago

Pakistan: Hindu homes set on fire to force them to convert to Islam

Op India  

Pakistani human rights activist Rahat Austin had recently shared that the homes of Hindus belonging to the highly marginalised and socio-economically backward Bheel and Meghwal community was set on fire in Pakistan. He said that one Dost Muhammad and some others simultaneously set fire to the houses of these poverty-stricken Hindus in Pakistan’s Sumar Puli, Khai, Sanghar and Sindh district. …

End gender-based discrimination in the Hindu Succession Act
4 years, 3 months ago

End gender-based discrimination in the Hindu Succession Act

Hindustan Times  

On August 11, the Supreme Court of India ruled that a daughter has the same rights as a son in an ancestral property under the Hindu Succession Act, 2005, regardless of when the father may have died, which the principle law – the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 – originally did not grant. The assumptions in the Hindu Succession Act that …

In historic verdict, Bangladesh court allows Hindu widows to get shares in husbands' properties
4 years, 3 months ago

In historic verdict, Bangladesh court allows Hindu widows to get shares in husbands' properties

India TV News  

In a historic verdict, the Bangladesh High Court has said that Hindu widows are entitled to shares in all properties owned by their late husbands and not just their homesteads. Previously Hindu widows in the country were only entitled to their spouses' homesteads and not other assets like agricultural land. But there's still a long way to go to achieve …

Hindus in Pakistan are accepting Islam so that they can survive in the country
4 years, 4 months ago

Hindus in Pakistan are accepting Islam so that they can survive in the country

Op India  

Pakistani Hindus are known to be one the most badly persecuted minority community in the world. There have been regular reports about how young Hindu girls are kidnapped and married off to their abductors in Pakistan. Now a report in the New York Times has shown how the poor Hindus of Pakistan are left with no choice but to accept …

Hundreds of Pakistani Hindus, victims of bonded labour and poor, convert to Islam for jobs: Report
4 years, 4 months ago

Hundreds of Pakistani Hindus, victims of bonded labour and poor, convert to Islam for jobs: Report

India TV News  

Religious persecution and forced conversion continues unabated in Pakistan as dozens of Hindu families were converted to Islam in June in the Badin district of Sindh Province in southern Pakistan, which borders with Gujarat's Kutch at its south. According to a New York Times report, the mass ceremony was the latest in line of growing number of attempts by various …

Poor and desperate, Pakistan's dwindling population of Hindus accepts Islam to get by
4 years, 4 months ago

Poor and desperate, Pakistan's dwindling population of Hindus accepts Islam to get by

Firstpost  

Forced conversions of Hindu girls and women to Islam through kidnapping and coerced marriages occur throughout Pakistan. “Everyone helps the people of their faith.” As Sheikh sees it, there is nothing left for Pakistan’s more affluent Hindus to give to help the people of their own faith. “The dehumanisation of minorities coupled with these very scary times we are living …

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