The energy of a pen: Bloggers combine to move minorities’ issues into a limelight
KARACHI: Depressed by unbroken governments’ policies neglecting minorities’ issues, a organisation of immature bloggers have assimilated hands to move a issues of non-Muslims into a limelight.
Bloggers in Karachi, Hyderabad, Sukkur and Mirpurkhas have also started a ‘harmony campaign’ for co-existence, assent and toleration in a range by operative for a rights of minorities as enshrined in a Constitution and showcasing a certain side of Pakistan, pronounced a minority rights romantic Ross Mahtani.
“The entrance exam of Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences was deferred final year when a blog was created about a fact that it was descending on a same day as Diwali,” pronounced blogger Sapna Bai.
Bai, who highlights issues faced by minorities in Sukkur around her blog ‘Minority Voices’ pronounced that hundreds of students from a Hindu village were ostensible to seem in a entrance exam of medical universities though a university administration usually realised their blunder after a blog was published and after highlighted by a mainstream media.
According to her, a deficiency of ceremony spaces for minorities in institutes, such as a Sukkur Institute of Business Administration, and a default of eremite books in libraries are formulating confusion for minority students.
“We are formulating an impact by a write-ups by facillitating people about a eremite rituals and festivals of minorities and partially succeeded in removing courtesy of Muslims as well,” she told The Express Tribune.
Another blogger, Ashok Sharma, who contributes to Minority Voices, pronounced that he succeeded in sketch a courtesy of a apportion for minorities to a debilitating state of infrastructure in Kali Mandir Colony in Hyderabad, where 3,500 Hindus of a Meghwar village reside.
According to Sharma, afterwards apportion Gianchand Israni visited a area and systematic a sustenance of a confidence check post during a temple. In 2014 a Hanuman Temple was pounded in a same area.
“Minorities in Sindh partially feel safer than in other provinces, as a Muslims in Sindh are some-more wakeful and see minorities as inland people of this land,” pronounced Sharma. He combined that a few years back, a influential acclimatisation of Hindus in Sindh was on a rise, though Muslims fought this threat along with a minorities.
“There are no restrictions when essay blogs highlighting minority issues and we can do it but taste as we know a possess problems best,” he maintained.
A tyro and blogger from Hyderabad, Deehraj Kumar, pronounced a Hasrat Mohani District Central Library in Hyderababd has no eremite books on Hinduism such as a Bhagavad Gita or Ramayana notwithstanding half a visitors to a library being Hindus.
The acclimatisation of eremite minorities is a critical problem that is not highlighted when it occurs in tiny villages. It is highlighted if it happens in Ghotki district and Samaro, a domicile of Umerkot district, pronounced Pawan Kumar.
“The 5% share for minorities in jobs contingency also be implemented by a Sindh government,” reiterated Pawan, who contributes to Minority Voices and works for a Sindhi newspaper. He pronounced that cases of conversion, that were not being highlighted progressing in tiny and sparse villages, are also being highlighted and afterwards picked adult by inhabitant media.
The bloggers demanded a Sindh supervision rectify a Sindh Hindu Marriage Bill on a drift of tellurian rights. The check was upheld final year and usually deals with a registration of marriage; it has no sustenance for divorce, subdivision or alimony.
“Minorities are marginalised segments of multitude and in this epoch of globalisation blogs highlight, stimulate and mobilize a supervision and polite society,” pronounced blogger Chander Kumar.
Published in The Express Tribune, Jan 28th, 2017.
Article source: http://tribune.com.pk/story/1308963/power-pen-bloggers-unite-bring-minorities-issues-limelight/