Hindus globally are highly concerned and fearful of more attacks regarding official reports of attempted genocide of the Hindu minorities of Bangladesh. Reports suggest that over a dozen Hindu temples and hundreds of Hindu-owned houses were looted and destroyed; hundreds of Hindus were beaten, resulting in injuries to dozens of kids and elderly women; and […]
Hindus Globally Concerned at Systematic Murders of Hindus & Other Minorities in Bangladesh by Extremists
Hindus globally are highly concerned about recurring murders of Hindus and other minority groups (LGBTs, Christians, Athiests and Buddhists) in Bangladesh; as a second Hindu temple leader was killed in a days in Bangladesh; which was the fifth such brutal murder in recent months and 3rd Hindu priest. A Hindu ashram worker in his early […]
American Hindu, Buddhist, LGBT, Christian & Athiest Groups Hold Candlelight Vigil for Persecuted Bangladeshi Minorities
Sonnets of famed Bengali Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore charged the atmosphere on Wednesday evening at the historic Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C. The chorus held candles and sang solemnly, mourning the recent murders of Bangladeshi minorities at the hands of Islamist extremists, “Jodi tor dak shune keu na ashe tobe ekla cholo re (If no […]
Abduction, Rape, Conversion & Forced Marriage: The Existential Challenges for Pakistan’s Minorities
As a typical editor and news buff, I was chatting with some of my contacts and sources via Whatsapp last winter to discuss a certain hash tag (#SaveKajalBheel) that was trending on Twitter in India. While getting the inside scoop, I was fortunate enough to get into contact with some truly inspirational human rights activists […]
Resolution Mourns the Hundreds of Thousands of Hindu & Buddhist Victims During the 1971 Genocide
Yesterday, a bipartisan group of lawmakers, led by Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), introduced H.Res. 396 to recognize victims of war crimes committed by Pakistan’s military and local Islamist militias against Hindus and secular Bengalis during the 1971 Bangladesh liberation movement. The resolution, which also notes recent human rights violations against all religious minorities, was strongly […]
Wandhama Massacre! Some Questions Remain Unanswered! #Kashmir
Dr. O. P. Sudrania In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime. – Abdul Kalam “The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?” ? – George […]
US Documentary Tour Launched to Promote Pakistani Hindu Refugees
(CHAKRA) “We won’t go back. Even if you shoot us we won’t go back,” cried out an elderly Pakistani Hindu woman living in the Dera Dhuni Baba refugee camp in the Indian capital of New Delhi. Her tragic story, along with those of 150 other Hindus from Pakistan’s Sindh province, was recently captured by Indian […]
Cleansing Hindus from Pakistan ‘The land of the ‘Pure’
(CHAKRA) In his 1993 BBC television series Akbar S Ahmed, former ambassador from Pakistan to Britain and presently Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at the American University in Washington DC, stated that Jinnah had created Pakistan so that India’s Muslims could be “safe from Hindu reaction”. But he has remained largely silent on the […]
Was There an Islamic “Genocide” of Hindus?
By Koenraad Elst “The Partition Holocaust”: the term is frequently used in Hindu pamphlets concerning Islam and the birth of its modern political embodiment in the Subcontinent, the state of Pakistan. Is such language warranted, or is it a ridicule-inviting exaggeration? To give an idea of the context of this question, we must note that the […]
Two Hindu Businessmen Abducted in Pakistan
Islamabad, Pakistan (CHAKRA) – In the province of Balochistan in Southwest Pakistan, two unidentified men abducted two Hindu businessmen, officials in Balochistan said. Darshan Lal and Kanhaiya Lal were taken away in Bhaktiarabad area in the Kachi district. The businessmen were taken away to an unknown location after the armed men took them out of […]