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High court orders Pakistan to let Hindus worship in historic temple
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Pakistan’s Peshawar High Court on Thursday ordered the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to allow Hindus to worship in a temple closed after Pakistan’s independence 64 years ago. A two-member judicial panel comprised of Chief Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan and Justice Waqar Ahmed Seth approved the petition of a Hindu woman, Phool Vati, and directed the…
American Hindu mixes tradition, Texas culture
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In many ways, 29-year-old Rishi Bhutada is a good ol’ Texas boy. But he’s also a traditional Hindu, not so different from his Indian-born parents. An officer at his dad’s pipefitting company, U.S.-born Bhutada had an arranged marriage in India three years ago and then brought his wife back to his hometown, where they recently…
Kathmandu a sea of red as Hindu wives celebrate Teej festival, pray for husbands’ long lives
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Red was the dress code in Nepal Wednesday as Hindu women of all ages, castes and communities thronged the Shiva temples in the country to celebrate the festival of Teej. “Streets became seas of red, the color of good fortune, as women in red saris, red bangles, red glass beads and with vermillion dotting their…
Times of India: Pakistanis kidnapping Hindu, Sikh girls for forced conversions, ransom
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Incidents of abduction of Hindus and Sikhs girls, for forced conversion and marriages to Muslims, as well as for ransom have increased, a Pakistani official told the Times of India newspaper. Pakistani parliament member Dr. Haresh Chopra of the Pakistan Muslim League was in India seeking Indian parliamentarians who would take up the issue of plight of…
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