Ajmer dargah chief condemns attack on temple in Pakistan
By PTI| Posted by Neha | Updated: 1st January 2021 10:24 pm IST File photo [ANI]
Jaipur: The spiritual head of Ajmer dargah Zainul Abedin Ali Khan on Friday condemned the attack on a temple in Pakistan.
I am deeply hurt and I strongly condemn the unlawful and un-Islamic act of damaging a religious place of our Hindu brethren in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Khan said.
I strongly demand from the government of Pakistan to take the strongest possible action against the culprits and not just a cosmetic action, he said.
Khan said it is saddening to note that religious intolerance is taking place in many parts of the world.
Angry mob destroys Hindu temple in northwestern Pakistan
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Angry mob destroys Hindu temple in northwestern Pakistan
Omer Farooq Khan / TNN / Updated: Dec 31, 2020, 16:47 IST
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A screengrab from a video showing a mob demolishing a Hindu temple.
ISLAMABAD: An angry mob led by local clerics burned down a Hindu temple in Karak district of Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Wednesday.
“The decision taken last week (at Teri village in Karak) was implemented today and the temple was destroyed while extremists chanted Allah-o-Akbar (God is great),” a local source told TOI.
Videos of the incident shared on social media showed dozens of men breaking down the temple’s walls and roof and smoke billowing from the structure.
Pakistan : 1000 girls, mainly Hindu, are abducted, raped and converted to Islam every year
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The evil practices of forced conversion of underage girls from religious minorities continue unabated in Pakistan. The Associated Press quoted Human right activists as saying that the religious persecution of these impoverished non-Muslim girls accelerated during lockdowns against the coronavirus, as they spend more time on social media and fall prey to the traffickers who remain active on the internet.
1000 girls of religious minorities in Pakistan converted to Islam every year
The report suggests that as many as 1000 Christian, Sikh and Hindu women between 12 and 25 years are abducted, raped, married, and forced to convert to Islam. Due to limited financial means of the families of such victims, many cases go unreported.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus 29 December 2020
On December 29, 2020 the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic Belarus to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Andrei Metelitsa, met the Special Secretary for Europe of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan, Aman Rashid.
The Sides exchanged information on the state and prospects for the development of relations between Minsk and Islamabad. In this context, specific ways towards enhancing Belarusian-Pakistani cooperation were discussed.
During the negotiations, a particular attention was paid to the forthcoming significant bilateral events, including high level visits, political consultations between the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, inter-parliamentary meetings, sessions of specialized commissions, working groups on industry, agriculture and pharmaceuticals.
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