SUKKUR, Pakistan (AP) On the sandy banks of the Indus River, which flows top to toe through Pakistan and into its southern Sindh province, Hindus waited for brightly colored boats to ferry them to a peaceful island that has housed a temple for almost 200 years.
SUKKUR, Pakistan (AP) On the sandy banks of the Indus River, which flows top to toe through Pakistan and into its southern Sindh province, Hindus waited for brightly colored boats to ferry them to a peaceful island that has housed a temple for almost 200 years.
Pakistan’s Sindh province has a rich Hindu history and tradition – an outlier in the Muslim-majority country. Discrimination, however, is on the rise though the landscape of Pakistan, and Sindh in particular, retains a Hindu imprint.