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Empowering minorities
April 30, 2021
There have been questions for a long time over what we can do, apart from combating extremism, to empower the minorities – mainly religious and sometimes also ethnic – in our country. Too often these groups have faced discrimination and terrible violence in various ways, simply because the majority community refuses to accept them as equal citizens of the country. Now there is a suggestion of how we can lead the way towards empowering minority groups and giving them more ability to fight for their own rights. Manisha Ropeta, a 26-year-old from Jacobabad, has become the first Hindu woman to pass the Sindh Public Service exam and be appointed DSP. She has explained that she chose the police force, after abandoning an earlier quest to become a doctor, because she wanted to do something ‘unusual’.
National
April 19, 2021
KARACHI: Sindh Minister for Information and Local Government Syed Nasir Hussain Shah has termed Sindh development package announced by prime minister the other day in Sukkur an eyewash and added that all the projects, which are part of the package, are already included in federal budget that have been delayed due to non-allocation of funds.
The Provincial Minister Syed Nasir Hussain Shah stated this while addressing a press conference along with Sindh Education Minister Saeed Ghani on Saturday. PPP Karachi Division General Secretary Javed Nagori was also present.
The Minister added that Sukkur âHyderabad Motorways Project was conceived under CPEC in previous government tenure, Gaaj Dam project was launched in 2013 while schemes of up-grading of passport offices and railway stations in Sindh were already included in federal budget book.