Pakistan: Peaceful Islam violence against Hindu women, temples, and culture on the rise

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https://bitterwinter.org/sindh-violence-against-hindu-women-temples-culture/

A group of South Asian human rights group, the South Asia Collective (SAC), in a report available through the Web site of the U.S. Department of Justice, focuses among other issues on the violence perpetrated against the Hindu community in the second largest province of Pakistan by population, Sindh.

The most serious problem is the rape, and abduction followed by forced conversion to Islam and marriage to Muslim men, of Hindu girls, “often underage.” Marriage in Sindh is illegal when it involves persons under the age of 18. However, abducted Hindu (and Christian) girls are either submitted to common law marriages under sharia law, or transported to the nearby province of Punjab, where the minimum age of marriage is lower.

To their credit, some local legislators tried to act against this practice, whose victims may be as many as 1,000 girls every year. However, opposition by Muslim religious parties killed a bill that would have made conversion of minors a crime in Sindh. A draft law that would have raised the minimum age for marriage to 18 nationwide, including in Punjab, also met with opposition.

Abductions and forced marriages continue. SAC reports that, “Hindu girls who have been forced into such marriages rarely get justice and the perpetrators of the crime go unpunished due to strong political influence of religious lobbyists and networks whose leaders are also members of the Parliament and include influential clerics.”

There have been also cases of Hindu girls who have been raped, some of whom have committed suicide. In the well-known case of medical student Namrita Chandani, who was found dead in September 2019, a judicial panel concluded that she had committed suicide after she had been raped—her family, however, believes she was murdered….

The situation in Sindh has resulted in a continuous influx of Sindhi refugees from Pakistan into India, where there was already a large community of Sindhi Hindus, more than 700,000 of whom had escaped to India after the Partition….

 

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Pakistan is a deplorable example of a islamic nation.

 

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Pakistan is a deplorable example of a islamic nation.

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the first OIC member to design and construct indigenous nuclear reactor

holding down 7 times more numerous CECA for 70+ years
played a crucial role in soviet defeat in Afghanistan in helping the Afghan Mujahideen alongside other partners


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European NGO uncovers Indian disinformation campaign against China, Pakistan

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  A report released by a Brussels-based NGO has uncovered an ongoing Indian disinformation campaign launched to discredit nations in conflict with India in Asia, in particular Pakistan but also China to lesser extent.
  
  
  The report released in early December said it uncovered two Indian organizations creating and spreading disinformation against China to reinforce anti-China sentiment in India, China Global Television (CGTN) reported.
  
  
  Titled Indian Chronicles, the report was released on December 9 by EU DisinfoLab, an independent non-profit organization focused on tracking sophisticated disinformation campaigns. The report named Srivastava Group (SG), an Indian holding company, and Asian News International (ANI), India’s largest video news agency, as the operation’s main players.
  
  Since 2005, SG has published fake news on hundreds of fake media outlets to reinforce pro-Indian and anti-Chinese feelings in India, according to the report.
  
  
  Last year, EU DisinfoLab researchers reportedly uncovered 265 pro-Indian sites operating across 65 countries, and traced them back to the New Delhi-based SG.
  
  The report described how fake media websites and NGOs run by SG lobbied members of the European Parliament to write op-eds taking pro-India stances, often against China, which were then published on the SG’s news websites.
  
  
  ANI then disseminated and repackaged the fake news or op-eds to multiply the repetition of online negative content about China, according to the report. The disinformation is ongoing, according to the report, which adds that the operation’s mission is to discredit nations in conflict with India in Asia, in particular Pakistan but also China to a lesser extent.
  
  
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  265 Indian fake news sites caught pushing anti-Pakistan propaganda
  
  
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  by RAVIE LAKSHMANAN — Nov 14, 2019 in SECURITY
  
  
  
  Researchers have discovered a network of 265 fake local news sites — named after defunct newspapers and media outlets — across 65 countries that are being used to disseminate anti-Pakistan coverage and serve Indian governmental interests.
  
  Uncovered by the EU DisinfoLab, an EU-based NGO focused on researching sophisticated disinformation campaigns, the operations were traced back to a group of Indian companies, NGOs, and think tanks.
  
  
  
  The sites — such as 4newsagency.com, eptoday.com, and timesofgeneva.com — operated by serving syndicated news from Russia Today and Voice of America. But the researchers said they “unexpectedly” found a large number of articles and op-eds related to minorities in Pakistan as well as other India-related topics.
  
  “Times of Geneva publishes the same type of content as EP Today and produces videos covering events and demonstrations criticising Pakistan’s role in the Kashmir conflict,” the EU DisinfoLab noted.
  
  
  
  By piecing together the campaign to an online media company — interchangeably called as International Institute for Non-Aligned Studies (IINS), New Delhi Times, and the Srivastava Group — the EU DisinfoLab believes the goal was to influence public perceptions on Pakistan by multiplying the same negative anti-Pakistan press coverage across hundreds of sites.
  
  More troubling, the network of zombie companies were found lobbying the EU and the UN by repeatedly criticizing Pakistan — a move that culminated in a group of 27 EU parliamentarians, mostly from right-wing political parties, visiting the Kashmir Valley upon an invite from IINS.
  
  “The idea seems to have been an effort to control the conversation around what is happening in the region,” BBC reported on the EU delegate visit.