Tag Archives: Pakistan

Pak preserves Bhagat Singh’s house, Punjab betrays martyr Sukhdev

Chandigarh: When the Pakistan government is preserving the memory of Shaheed Bhagat Singh by renovating not only the house where he was born but also his entire village for huge money, the Punjab government has betrayed a martyr who went to the gallows with him in the freedom struggle. The state government is all ready to abandon renovating the Ludhiana house ...

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British citizens stranded in Kashmir as floods wreak havoc in region.

SriNagar, India: Sikhs use a raft to assist with flood relief in central Srinagar on 12 September 2014. Indian Kashmir’s main city has ‘drowned completely’ under floodwaters, a senior official said. Families are struggling to contact around 50-60 British people as mobile phone networks have collapsed in the disaster. More than 50 British citizens have been stranded for days by ...

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Pak Sikhs threaten countrywide protest

Islamabad, Pak: Sikhs in Pakistan have held a protest march and threatened to launch a countrywide agitation if the government fails to provide security to them following targeted killings of members of the minority community in recent weeks. The protest march was held on Sunday in the northwest Mardan city against the killings of several businessmen in the militancy-plagued Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. The ...

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Killing of Sikhs in Pak: SGPC writes to Sushma Swaraj

Amritsar, Punjab: Expressing concern over the killing of Sikhs in Pakistan, the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) has written to foreign minister Sushma Swaraj and appealed to her to take up the issue with the Pakistan government. Issuing a statement, SGPC chief Avtar Singh Makkar said, “The regular attacks on Sikhs in Pakistan are a very serious issue and clearly indicate ...

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SGPC protests killing of Sikh by terrorists in Pak

Amritsar, Punjab: Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) chief Avtar Singh Makkar has condemned the recent killing of a Sikh trader by terrorists in Mardan town of the Khyber area of Pakistan. In a statement on Friday, Makkar said it was unfortunate that the Pakistan government was failing in its duties to ensure the protection of the minority communities residing there. He ...

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