New Photo of President Zardari confers award on Hindu leader in Islamabad

By Gopinath Kumar (Executive Editor)
Tuesday, January 18, 2011

 (Photo : President of Pakistan Mr.Zardari with Awarded Hindu Leader Bhayya Ram Anjum in Islamabad)

ISLAMABAD – President Asif Ali Zardari has conferred Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Human Rights Award, for the year 2010, to Bhayya Ram Anjum, a Scheduled Caste Hindu Community leader of Southern Punjab.

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President greets Hindu community on Deewali; reiterates govt’s pledge to safeguard rights of minority

By Gopinath Kumar (Editor-in-Chief)
Friday, November 12, 2010

ISLAMABAD, Nov 5 : President Asif Ali Zardari while extending greetings to the Hindu and Scheduled Castes community in Pakistan on the occasion of Deewali reiterated the pledge of the government as well as Pakistan Peoples Party to safeguard the constitutionally guaranteed rights of all minorities.

 

    “I wish to extend on my behalf, on behalf of the Pakistan Peoples Party and on behalf of the people of Pakistan heartiest greetings to the Hindu and Scheduled Castes community on the occasion of Deewali.“The Hindus and the Scheduled Castes, indeed, all minorities of Pakistan are equal citizens of the state and entitled to equal rights”, the President said in a message on the occasion of Deewali.

      President Zardari also reiterated the pledge made by the government and the Party (PPP) to safeguard the constitutionally guaranteed rights of all minorities in accordance with the teachings of the founder of the Nation Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah and the founder of the Party Quaid-e-Awam Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.

        He said, the Party has been fighting religious apartheid foisted on the people by the extremists and will continue to fight it with unabated vigour and intensity.

        “I wish to make it clear that no one will be allowed to victimize and hound members of minority communities in the name of religion and faith”, he maintained.

          The President further said, “We partake in Deewali celebrations also for promoting interfaith harmony as a means to fight religious apartheid on the one hand and the militants and extremists who seek to impose their ideological agenda on the people by force on the other”.

         “We respect and uphold the UN Resolution calling for interfaith harmony”, he added.

The President called upon the relevant Ministry to step up plans for the setting up of a federal interfaith complex in the federal capital and interfaith harmony committees in all districts of the country with representation from members of all minorities besides the Muslim members.

Pakistan President orders probe into murder of Christian brothers, Hindu temple demolition

By Gopinath Kumar (Executive Editor)
Friday, July 30, 2010

(Photo : Pakistan President Mr.Asif Ali Zardari)

Islamabad : Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has directed the concerned authorities to probe the murder of two Christian brothers in Faisalabad and also look into the controversy over the demolition of an ancient Hindu temple in Rawalpindi.

Condemning both the incidents in which minorities were especially targeted, Zardari said the whole episode has brought a bad name to the country.

“Life of every person was sacred and no-one could be allowed to take law into his own hands,” The Dawn quoted Zardari, as saying.

He offered his condolence to the families of Pastor Rashid Emmanuel and Sajjid Emmanuel, both of whom were shot dead outside a court in Faislabad earlier this week, and asked the provincial government to pay a suitable compensation to the bereaved family.

Taking note of media reports about a historic Hindu temple being demolished in Rawalpindi, Zardari directed Minister for Minorities Shahbaz Bhatti to investigate the issue and report the actual facts.

Earlier this week, hundreds of Hindus took to the streets against the occupant of the ancient temple who had pulled down half of the temple structure for commercial purposes.