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Pak remission not to benefit Sarabjit, case
still hanging
25
June, 2008
Islamabad:
After raising hopes all around about Pakistan Government commuting
the death sentences of death row convict Sarabjit Singh comes the
dampener... |
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Another Indian on death row in Pak: Burney
11
June, 2008
Islamabad:
After Kashmir Singh, leading Pakistani rights activist Ansar Burney
has found Karpal Singh, another Sikh on death row, languishing... |
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Tension between
Sikhs, Muslims over new mosque in Lahore
4
June,
2008
LAHORE:
Initially, it was a fight between two opposing Muslim groups in
Lahore, and the Sikhs remained silent because they thought good
sense will prevail... |
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Pak official briefs envoys from 15 countries on
Sikhism
4
June,
2008
ISLAMABAD: Ambassadors from 35 countries on Sunday paid a visit to
the historic Sikh Temple, Panja Sahib, in Hassan Abdal in Pakistan
in a bid to learn... |
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Sikhs in Pakistan want to marry in Punjab
28
May,
2008
NANKANA SAHIB: While
the registration details of the Anand Marriage Act in Pakistan have
still to be resolved, the 10,000 strong Sikh community in
Pakistan... |
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Pak gets its first Sikh practitioner
28
May,
2008
Lahore: Mimpal
Singh (28) became the first Pakistani Sikh to have cleared the
Diploma in Child Health, besides topping the Services Institute of
Medical... |
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Pak to consider pardon for Sarabjit: Gilani
14
May,
2008
slamabad: Pakistan
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani personally
believes that Indian national Sarabjit Singh, sentenced to death... |
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Sikhs in Pakistan seek representation in government
7
May,
2008
LAHORE:
Political voices within the Sikh community in Pakistan are getting
louder with Sikh leaders now seeking representation in the government... |
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Pak
government to promote Punjabi
7
May,
2008
PASRUR: Coming
on the heels of the Indian Punjab government making Punjabi compulsory for
all official work, the Pakistani Punjab Minister... |
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Taliban rescues 2 kidnapped Sikhs, to
hang offenders
30
April 2008
ISLAMABAD: Two
Sikhs, who were abducted from a district in Pakistan’s restive North
West Frontier Province, have been rescued by the local Taliban... |
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No registrations under Sikh Marriage Act
16
April 2008
ISALAMABAD:
Since the enactment of the Sikh Marriage Act in May 2008, no Sikh
couple’s wedding has been registered to date. Surprisingly, many
couples... |
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Gilani to army: Back to barracks in two weeks
2
April
2008
ISLAMABAD:
The army should return to the barracks in two weeks, Pakistan's new
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said on Saturday... |
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Pakistan Sikh gurdwara committee to operate until April 30
2
April
2008
LAHORE: The Pakistan
federal government has extended the tenure of office-bearers of
Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (PSGPC)... |
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Sikhs haven’t graduated to self-representation
5
March 2008
ISLAMABAD: In rather
curious yet understandable reports from Pakistan,
sections of the media have underlined how the Sikhs in Karachi are
finding it difficult... |
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Everyone wins in Pakistan, and is talking to the other
20 February 2008
Pakistan election results are, in the sub-continental
version of English language, not two-in-one, not three-in-one, but
rather all-in-one. Even Uncle Sam... |
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Gurdwara of Bhai
Taru Singh Ji now at center of
a ‘grave’ row in Pakistan
20 February 2008
LAHORE:
Two opposing groups in Pakistan are fighting over who a grave
belongs to – a grandson of Baba Farid Ganj Shakar or a
governor of Lahore... |
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Minorities to get places of worship
in Pak jails
6 February 2008
ISLAMABAD:
Places of worship for persons from minority communities will be set
up in Pakistani jails as part of measures for the collective
welfare... |
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Anand Karaj Act in Pakistan is now a law
6 February 2008
ISLAMABAD: Now, it is official. Moving at a breakneck speed,
Pakistan government has even notified the Sikh Anand Karaj Act... |
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Pindiites the most literate in Punjab
30 January 2008
RAWALPINDI:
Literacy rate in Rawalpindi district jumped to 70.5 percent from
74.5 percent in 2007, the District Government Literacy Department... |
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Musharraf signs Sikh Marriage Registration
Ordinance
16 January 2008
ISLAMABAD:
Pakistan’s Attorney General (AG) Malik Muhammad Qayyum on Tuesday
said the Sikh Marriage Registration Ordinance had been signed by |
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Fatima fit to lead PPP, says Jemima
9 January 2008
ISLAMABAD: Jemima Khan, former
wife of Pakistani politician Imran Khan, has fired another salvo at the
Bhutto clan, saying.... |
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Bhutto killed by blast, not bullet: Western
official
9 January 2008
LONDON:
Benazir Bhutto was, without doubt, killed by the blast from the
suicide bomb and not an assassin's bullet, according to a senior
Western... |
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Pak govt says Bhutto death accidental, makes U-turn
later
2 January 2008
Islamabad: In a dramatic U-turn, the Pakistan
government "apologised" for claiming earlier that former premier Benazir
Bhutto died... |
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Could Benazir defy the adverse rules governing
martyrdom?
2 January 2008
Benazir Bhutto courted death
with amazing grace and courage. Unfortunately in most parts of the
planet, including our corner, political martyrdom seems... |
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Want to register Sikh marriage? Pak offers you
the chance
12 December, 2007
ISLAMABAD/AMRITSAR: Pakistan seems to be all ready for enacting the
separate law... |
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Emergency in Pakistan but US support to
continue
7 November, 2007
WASHINGTON: As the massive state
crackdown on civil rights activists and political protesters
continues in Pakistan in the wake of an emergency being imposed... |
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India asked to identify places for group visas
31
October, 2007
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad has asked New Delhi
to identify four Hindu-Sikh holy shrines in Pakistan so that the government
could consider issuing group visas to Indian.... |
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Gurdwara sewadars are technical people or clerical
31 October, 2007
LAHORE: Twelve Sikh sewadars
have written a letter to Pakistan's Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB)
chairman General Zulfiqar Ali Khan asking a pay scale upgrade according to
the... |
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Detective leading Pak blasts probe quits
31 October, 2007
Karachi: The
senior detective leading the probe into the suicide attack on Benazir Bhutto
has withdrawn from the case after the opposition leader accused him of
involvement in the alleged... |
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Bhutto visits ancestral stronghold after attack
31 October, 2007
Gahri Khuda
Baksh (Pakistan): Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto arrived in her
ancestral village on Saturday amid tight security in her first public trip
in Pakistan since suicide bombers... |
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Pak army gets its first Sikh officer
31 October,
2007
Islamabad: One
person clearly stood out among the latest batch of smartly turned
out cadets that graduated from the Pakistan.... |
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Pak SC asks government to regularise ‘disappearances’
17 October, 2007
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry has
given a concession to the government, allowing it to regularise the
‘disappearance’ of all the... |
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Fighter jets up in air, news not on our pages
10 October, 2007
For days on end,
Pakistani fighter jets are bombing villages, markets and people in North
Waziristan.
On just October 9, 50 people are reported killed. More than 200 were
reported... |
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Way cleared for triangular race in Pak polls
3 October, 2007
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan has accepted
nomination papers of Gen Pervez Musharraf and two other contenders
for the presidential polls while outside... |
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Benazir wants 'peace treaty' between India, Pakistan
3 October, 2007
Washington:
Waiting in exile and eager to return to Pakistan, former PM Benazir
Bhutto has now advocated a peace treaty between India and
Pakistan. "In the 60th year of Pakistan's and... |
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Pak takes Osama’s threat seriously
26 September,
2007
ISLAMABAD: Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden’s call for Pakistanis to
rise up against their US-allied military leader has struck a chord
among an angry, extremist minority... |
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Suicide attack in Quetta leaves food for thought
21 February 2007
The February 17 blast in a district court in
Quetta comes close on the heels of similar attacks – the majority of them
suicide .... |
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Baloch nationalists to quit Assembly
6 September
2006
QUETTA: The Balochistan National
Party-Mengal (BNP-M) announced on Sunday to resign from the assemblies and
the Senate in protest... |
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Bugti buried without family consent
6 September
2006
DERA BUGTI: Pakistani authorities
on Friday buried a locked coffin believed to contain the body of a tribal
chief whose killing in a military... |
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