Pakistani Hindus
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A Pakistani Hindu is not content but is Content
X.T.M argues that social media rewards rarity: a Hindu in Pakistan or a Jew in Iran becomes a story, while the same people in India or Israel are absorbed into…
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The Long Defeat: How Hinduphobia Hollowed Out Pakistan
X.T.M reads a Dawn article’s misspelling and ordering of religions as evidence of Hinduphobia in Pakistani discourse, which he describes as erasure rather than violence, and explains his new policy…
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Hindu conversions to Islam in Pakistan
Razib Khan, citing a news report, argues that conversions of poor Hindus in rural Sindh, which is about 10% Hindu, are better explained by desperation and discrimination than by pure…
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On Being Hindu in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
Commenting on halted construction of an Islamabad Hindu temple, Razib Khan argues the objection fits historical Islamic norms of tolerating but not encouraging minorities, and that Hinduism is seen as…
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The CAB Battle – Who Is An Indian (Citizen)?
The author defends the Citizenship Amendment Bill as relief for persecuted minorities from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh, arguing that foreign coverage omits the context of Partition and the Two-Nation Theory.…
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The Indian Muslim question
After an open-thread row over Pakistani Hindus and Indian Muslims, the author says he feels he de-Muslimises himself in India, argues Indians treat Muslims like a caste while Pakistan sorts…
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Pakistani Perfidy & The Nehruvian Deep State
Zach cites a Pakistani Christian’s account of a Hindu family barred from buying a flat to argue that Pakistani minorities face everyday discrimination, and presses liberal Pakistanis to explain it.…
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Hindu genocide ongoing in Pakistan
Sharing a news report on three Hindu men killed in an Orakzai suicide bombing, the author describes it as ongoing genocide of Hindus in Pakistan, and argues that India must…
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Around the Brown World
A roundup of links including Indians rescuing a cow from a flooded river, a call to hang those behind a goat gang-rape in Haryana, a profile of Imran Khan, Pakistani…
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The Balmikis of Pakistan
A Reuters piece on Reema Abbasi’s book about Hindu temples in Pakistan, with the poster’s interest in the precarious life of the Balmiki community.
