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The official number of Hindus living in Pakistan is about 4.5 million or approx. 2.15% as per 2017 census conducted by Pakistan government authority. [117] However, at different time some of the demographic experts of Pakistan Hindu council as well as various Hindu politicians have given numbers based on their estimation research which have led ...
Many Hindu girls living in Pakistan are kidnapped, forcibly converted and married to Muslims. [59] According to the National Commission of Justice and Peace and the Pakistan Hindu Council (PHC) around 1000 Christian and Hindu minority women are converted to Islam and then forcibly married off to their abductors or rapists.
Hinduism is the oldest recorded religion practiced by the Punjabi people. [18] The Rig Veda, the oldest and most sacred Hindu text, is believed to have been composed in the Punjab region of modern-day Pakistan (and India) on the banks of the Indus River around 1500 BCE. [19]
They are considered unique among the people of Pakistan, [web 2] [web 1] [10] and form Pakistan's smallest ethnoreligious group, [web 5] practising what authors consider as a form of animism and ancestor worship [a] with elements of Indo-Iranian (Vedic-or Hindu-like) religion. [b]
These numbers also include the scheduled caste population, which stands at 1.7% of the total in Sindh (or 3.1% in rural areas), and is believed to have been under-reported, with some community members instead counted under the main Hindu category. Although, Pakistan Hindu Council claimed that there are 6,842,526 Hindus living in Sindh Province ...
The Madrasi Para area behind the Jinnah Post Graduate Medical Centre is home to 100 Tamil Hindu families. The population of Tamils in Pakistan is over 5000. The Shri Rama Pir Mandir Temple was located in this neighborhood but was demolished by a builder. [2] The temple was the biggest Tamil Hindu temple in Karachi. [3]
Muslim-majority Pakistan is home to 4.4 million Hindus, just 2.14% of the population, and Hinglaj Mata is one of the few Hindu sites that continues to draw large numbers of pilgrims every year ...
Amb temples in Khushab district. The Hindu, Buddhist and Jain architectural heritage of Pakistan is part of a long history of settlement and civilization in Pakistan.The Indus Valley civilization collapsed in the middle of the second millennium BCE and was followed by the Vedic Civilisation, which extended over much of northern India and Pakistan.