{"id":14109,"date":"2015-03-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2015\/03\/17\/pakistan-works-slowly-to-improve-minority-rights\/"},"modified":"2015-03-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T12:00:00","slug":"pakistan-works-slowly-to-improve-minority-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2015\/03\/17\/pakistan-works-slowly-to-improve-minority-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Works&#8211;Slowly&#8211;to Improve Minority Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pakistantoday.com.pk\/2015\/03\/12\/city\/islamabad\/achievement-on-hindu-marriage-death-certificates-lauded\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PAKISTAN, March 16, 2015 (Pakistan Today): Pakistan Hindu Council Patron-In-Chief MNA Dr Ramesh Kumar Vankwani has highly appreciated the services of newly-appointed National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) chairman, saying that progress made by him for the preparation of Hindu marriage and death certificates is remarkable. [Marriage certificates are to date only issued for Muslims and Christians in Pakistan, not for Hindus. See: <br \/>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Hindus-marriages-registration-in-Pakistan\/104196649648825]<\/p>\n<p>Dr Ramesh Kumar Vankwani says removal of hate-material from school curriculum is also a remarkable victory of minorities. Talking to the journalists outside the Supreme Court on Thursday he said that he himself presented the NADRA certificates sample copies to the two-member apex court, headed by the chief justice, on Thursday during the hearing regarding minorities&#8217; rights.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the Supreme Court has ordered other provincial governments to offer hate-free syllabus also, Dr Vankwani informed, terming this a great victory of all minorities living in Pakistan and acknowledged them for their successful struggle. <\/p>\n<p>For more on the curriculum isses in Pakistan, see<br \/>http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pakistan_studies#Curriculum_issues<\/p>\n<p>One quote: &#8220;An editorial in Pakistan&#8217;s oldest newspaper Dawn commenting on a report in The Guardian on Pakistani Textbooks noted &#8216;By propagating concepts such as jihad, the inferiority of non-Muslims, India&#8217;s ingrained enmity with Pakistan, etc., the textbook board publications used by all government schools promote a mindset that is bigoted and obscurantist. Since there are more children studying in these schools than in madrassas the damage done is greater.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source PAKISTAN, March 16, 2015 (Pakistan Today): Pakistan Hindu Council Patron-In-Chief MNA Dr Ramesh Kumar Vankwani has highly appreciated the,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}