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History. In 2001 a woman being questioned by an off-duty sheriff's deputy about a theft at a grocery store in northwest Houston fell ill and died. Afterwards, the Pakistan Association of Greater Houston, the Islamic Society of Greater Houston (ISGH), and the Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR) were scheduled to form a committee about ...
Punjabis. The Punjabi Mexican American community, the majority of which is localized to Yuba City, California, is a distinctive ethnicity holding its roots in a migration pattern that occurred almost a century ago. The first meeting of these cultures occurred in the Imperial and Central Valleys in 1907, near the largest irrigation system in the ...
Christianity. Sikhism. Zoroastrianism. Irreligion. Pakistani Americans (Urdu: پاکستانی امریکی) are citizens of the United States who have full or partial ancestry from Pakistan, or more simply, Pakistanis in America. They can be from different ethnic groups in Pakistan like Punjabi or Muhajir.
Aafia Siddiqui. Aafia Siddiqui (also spelled Afiya; [8] Urdu: عافیہ صدیقی; born 2 March 1972) is a Pakistani national who is serving an 86-year sentence at the Federal Medical Center, Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, for attempted murder and other felonies. [6][9] Siddiqui was born in Pakistan to a Sunni Muslim family. [1]
The road to Reno: A history of divorce in the United States (Greenwood Press, 1977) Chused, Richard H. Private acts in public places: A social history of divorce in the formative era of American family law (U of Pennsylvania Press, 1994) Griswold, Robert L. "The Evolution of the Doctrine of Mental Cruelty in Victorian American Divorce, 1790-1900."
This category includes articles related to the culture and history of Pakistani Americans in Texas. Pages in category "Pakistani-American culture in Texas" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
On February 18, 2014, a same-sex couple, married in Washington D.C., filed for divorce and child custody lawsuit. [46] On April 23, 2014, Judge Barbara Nellermoe, of the 45th Judicial District Court of Bexar County, ruled that three portions of the Texas Family Code, as well as Section 32 of the Texas Constitution, were unconstitutional. [47]
political activist. Years active. 2013–present. Known for. Co-founding Ex-Muslims of North America. Movement. Secularism. Sarah Haider is an American writer of South Asian ancestry, public speaker, and political activist. [1] She cofounded the advocacy group Ex-Muslims of North America (EXMNA), which seeks to normalize religious dissent and ...