{"id":7666,"date":"2009-04-26T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/04\/26\/hindus-sikhs-and-christians-forced-to-flee-swat-valley-in-pakistan\/"},"modified":"2009-04-26T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-26T12:00:00","slug":"hindus-sikhs-and-christians-forced-to-flee-swat-valley-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/04\/26\/hindus-sikhs-and-christians-forced-to-flee-swat-valley-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindus, Sikhs And Christians Forced To Flee Swat Valley In Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.samaylive.com\/news\/christians-hindus-sikhs-forced-to-flee-swat-catholic-church-620443\/620443.html\">www.samaylive.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">NEW DELHI, INDIA, April 25, 2009: The minorities in Pakistan&#8217;s Swat Valley have been forced to flee as the Taliban have imposed a tax on non-Muslims living under Islamic rule. Pakistan Catholic Bishops&#8217; Conference (PCBC) president Archbishop Lawrence John Saldanha has urged the Pakistani president and prime minister to intervene.<\/p>\n<p>Expressing concern over the government&#8217;s move to allow the imposition of Sharia laws in parts of the North West Frontier Province, the archbishop said in his letter to the Pakistani leaders: &#8220;We note with sorrow that your government has failed to take stock of the concerns of civil society in Pakistan in your decision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.samaylive.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, April 25, 2009: The minorities in Pakistan&#8217;s Swat Valley have been forced to flee as 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-7666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7666","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=7666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}