Bangladesh Approves Law To Return Property to Hindus
November 8th, 2009Source: www.zeenews.com
DHAKA, BANGLADESH, November 2, 2009: The Bangladesh cabinet on Monday approved a proposed law to return Hindu property which were confiscated during the 1965 Indo-Pak war, when the country was eastern wing of Pakistan, ending a major violation of the rights of minorities in the country.The proposed law is meant to redress the long-disputed law of the Pakistani era, which was widely criticized as a major violation of the Hindu minority’s rights. During the Pakistan period, the law was called as Enemy Property Act (Later renamed the Vested Property Act 1974). The Pakistani government had seized approximately 2.5 million acres of land from Hindus, affecting nearly 10 million Hindus.
