Guru Nanak scholarships for Sikh and Hindu youths of Pakistan thenews.com.pk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thenews.com.pk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
AMRITSAR: Pakistan’s Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) has begun the ‘Baba Guru Nanak Scholarship’ to provide vocational training to Hindu and Sikh youths to help them become independent after ETPB signed a MoU with Punjab Vocational Training Council (PVTC) on Monday.
While talking to TOI after signing the Mou, ETPB chairman Aamer Ahamd said PVTC will train 10 Sikh and Hindu youth in the districts of Nankana Sahib and Rahim Yar Khan and the training would be provided in the existing vocational training institutes of PVTC”.
He said while the PVTC would be responsible for providing vocational training to Sikh and Hindu youth on the other hand ETPB would bear the fee and stipend which turns around to be around Pakistani Rs 16 lakh for the 20 candidates.
Hindu community pardons accused in Karak temple attack
A mob, reportedly led by firebrand cleric Maulvi Sharif, had vandalised the revered temple on December 30 last year
Resentful local residents attacked a Hindu temple in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa s Karak district on December 30, 2020. PHOTO: EXPRESS/FILE
PESHAWAR:
The Hindu community has decided to pardon the accused involved in the vandalisation of a temple located in southern Karak district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa based on the apology submitted by the accused.
“The community would provide aid and employ efforts to secure release of the accused from the prison in the light of the recommendations of a jirga,” said Pakistan Hindu Council Chairman and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf lawmaker Dr Ramesh Kumar while announcing the decision in a press conference along with the Advisor of the Chief Minister on Science and Technology, Ziaullah Bangash in Peshawar on Saturday.
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New Delhi: With no response from India to re-open the Kartarpur Corridor due to the COVID-19 outbreak, Pakistan has decided to convert the Sikh s one of the most revered religious place Kartarpur Sahib into a tourist place. The Pakistan government has announced to begin private guided tours to Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in luxury vehicles and construct shopping plaza s at Kartarpur Sahib for the entertainment of tourists.
The brainchild of Pakistan s Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB), the luxury guided tours to the holy shrines has reportedly got the go-ahead from the country s Ministry of Religious Affairs and Inter Faith Harmony.