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Minorities demand to amend Succession Act 1925 for protection of inheritance rights
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Minorities demand protection of inheritance rights by amending Succession Act 1925
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Minorities’ personal laws issues taken up with minister
June 29, 2021
PESHAWAR: The issues pertaining to the Christian and Hindu personal laws have been taken up with the KP Law Department and assurance received for the remedial measures, said representatives of the minorities communities on Monday.
They said the development came when a group belonging to the religious minorities drawn from different parts of the country met Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs Fazal Shakoor Khan at his office here on Friday and requested him for support to redress legal the issues faced by religious minorities.
The members from Christian, Hindu and Sikh communities belonging to KP, Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan, were part of the delegation, said a press release, adding the minister was flanked by the officials of the KP Law Department.
Pakistan gets its first Sikh senator
Gurdeep Singh was elected to the upper house of parliament on a minority ticket
Gurdeep Singh joined Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf in 2016. (Photo supplied)
Sikh community leaders are celebrating after Gurdeep Singh became the first Sikh to win election to Pakistan’s Senate.
Singh received 105 votes on March 3 to be elected to the upper house of parliament on a minority ticket. Senate members are elected for six-year terms.
Shahbaz Bhatti, the Catholic federal minister for minorities who was assassinated in March 2011, won approval for four Senate seats to be reserved for religious minorities.
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Pakistani Muslims condemn attack on Christian nurse
Cleric and colleague of woman accused of blasphemy call for the protection of minorities
Muslim cleric Maulana Tahir and staff nurse Kausar have condemned violence against a Christian nurse accused of blasphemy. (Image supplied)
A Muslim cleric and a colleague of a Christian nurse attacked by a mob following blasphemy allegations have called on their social media followers to protect minorities.
A day after Tabitha Nazir Gill was slapped and stripped at Sobhraj Maternity Hospital in Karachi, cleric Maulana Tahir urged authorities to protect religious minorities.
“It is with great grief I request Prime Minister Imran Khan and state leaders to take notice. The police investigation proved that she didn’t commit blasphemy,” he stated in a Jan. 29 video message on Facebook.
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