LAHORE, PAKISTAN May 26: Most students in Pakistan are surprisingly keen to learn about Hinduism, despite the hostility that has prevailed between their country and India in the previous sixty years. According to Dr. Maureen Korp, an art critic and a religious studies scholar based in Canada who received her doctorate from the University of Ottawa, the students in Pakistan were different to the ones she was used to teaching in Canada.
Korp, who is visiting Lahore at the invitation of the Beaconhouse National University (BNU), said she had given an assignment to her students in which they were asked about religions including Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Christianity and Judaism. “Surprisingly, I found that most students were keen to know about Hinduism.”