Sikhs in Pakistan on verge of becoming extinct minority group
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Aattri: Sikhs who attended the ground breaking ceremony of the Kartarpur Corridor in Pakistan return back to India via Wagha-Attari border, in Punjab on Nov 30, 2018. . Image Source: IANS News
New Delhi/Islamabad, May 3 : In 2019, Pakistan claimed positive global attention when it opened the Sikh gurdwara at Kartarpur to pilgrims from India. But the reality is that the Sikh community in Pakistan faces persistent discrimination. Pakistani Sikhs, who mainly live in the country s restive northwest, are a community that lives in fear.
The 500-year-old religion was founded in Nankana Sahib, the birthplace of Sikh guru, Guru Nanak Dev, and is now part of Pakistan.
Sikhs in Pakistan on verge of becoming extinct minority group
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Lahore and Amritsar: Two cities joined at birth are dying together
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Archaeology in Pakistan is forced to deny its Hindu past
A member of the Hindu community holds a damaged statue inside a temple that was attacked on Saturday night, in Larkana, southern Pakistan’s Sindh province, March 16, 2014. REUTERS/Faheem Soormro
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4th Feb 2021
Don’t be taken in by the Pakistan government’s lip-service to becoming a multi-religious society every time it promises the repair or reconstruction of a destroyed Hindu temple in that country. It just cannot mean what it says in this context.
That is the way to read the recent drama in Pakistan over what was announced as the first Hindu temple in the capital city, Islamabad. The reality, instead, played out somewhere else in the country, just before the dawn of the new year, 2021, in the wanton destruction of a temple in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
To my dear friend Zain
Opinion
February 2, 2021
January 30, 2021 was a tragic day for those of us who lost a great friend, an upright human being, an avid reader and a Marxist thinker beyond excellence – our own Zainul Abedin.
Zain was a mentor and a thought leader, someone who posed some upsetting questions about the surreal nexus of power, politics, morality, culture and superstructure of the ideologies of hegemony and subjugation. His intellectual eccentricity was seen by many amongst the liberal and far-left tradition as a trademark of ivory tower intellectuals but he was the most effective mobilizer of socialist ideas.
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