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Bondevik stresses the need for interfaith harmony in Pakistan Staff Report
Club de Madrid and the Aurat Foundation organized an online session “Integrating Vulnerable Communities Inputs to Inclusive Development Roadmap in Pakistan”.
The session brought together Kjell Mange Bondevik, former Prime Minister of Norway and Member of Club de Madrid with the leaders from religious and ethnic minorities to strengthen strategies and foster consensus between state and minorities around the need to implement the Sustainable Development Goals in an inclusive and participatory manner.
Prime Minister Bondevik highlighted the need of interfaith harmony and establishment of forums for dialogue between state and ethnic and religious minorities. He also highlighted that the key legal, political and cultural steps are to be taken to create an inclusive environment for development. Norway has been successful to reduce inter-group tensions and to integrate the migrated and
Not only non Muslim minorities in Pakistan minority Muslim communities also on target of terrorists jagran.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from jagran.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Updated Jan 13, 2021 | 18:32 IST
The Hazaras - believed to be of Uzbek-Turkic ancestry - the majority of whom follow the Twelver Shia sect of Islam, have long been the target of ethnic cleansing and pogroms for nearly two centuries. Members of the Shiite Hazara community mourn beside the coffins of coal mine workers who were killed by gunmen near the Machh coal field prior to their funeral prayer in Quetta, Pakistan, Saturday, Jan. 9, 2021. | Photo Credit: AP
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Their travails, reportedly, began around 1773 when the mountainous region of Hazarajat in what is now central Afghanistan was conquered by the Afghan Empire under the rule of Pashtun ruler Ahmad Shah Durrani
General Qamar meets families of slain colliers, interacts with a large gathering of Hazara community in Quetta
Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa meets with the families of the Machh victims in Quetta on January 13, 2021. PHOTO: ISPR
Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Wednesday assured the bereaved families of Machh tragedy that the perpetrators of the heinous incident will be brought to justice and blood of the martyrs will not go waste, a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said.
A regional franchise of the Da’ish terrorist group, which is operating out of Afghanistan’s lawless border regions, had claimed responsibility for the grisly slaughter of 11 Hazara coal miners in Machh area of Bolan district, around 100km southeast of Quetta, on January 3.
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