Topic: Punjab
A man who admitted assassinating a Pakistani provincial governor to defend the country's controversial blasphemy laws appeared in a prison court for a preliminary trial hearing Monday.Bodyguard Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri has confessed that he gunned down his boss, Punjab governor Salman ...
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The supervising police officer of the bodyguard accused of killing a Pakistani politician had asked for his removal from all sensitive security duties because of his extreme religious views, an investigator said on Thursday.The accused killer, identified as Malik ...
Thousands of Pakistanis braved tight security on Wednesday to attend the funeral of Punjab governor Salman Taseer, following the country's most high-profile assassination in three years.The 66-year-old provincial governor of Punjab, one of the country's most outspoken voices against religious extremism, was ...
The most significant figure in Sikh history of the 18th century is Lacchman Dev, who was probably born in Punch in Kashmir and had become a Vaishnava ascetic known as Madho Das. According to tradition, Banda Bahadur was commissioned by Gobind Singh ...
During the early 1920s the Akali movement, a semimilitary corps of volunteers raised to oppose the British government, disputed with the British over control of the larger gurdwaras (Punjabi: The partition between India and Pakistan in 1947 produced deep dissatisfaction among the ...
Until well into the modern era, most migrant Sikhs were traders who settled in India outside the Punjab or in neighbouring lands to the west. After World War II, Sikhs emigrated from both India and Pakistan, most going to the United Kingdom ...
During India's struggle for independence, the Sikhs were on both sides of the conflict, many continuing to serve in the British military and others opposing the colonial government. The partition between India and Pakistan in 1947 produced deep dissatisfaction among the Sikhs, ...
A member of the Khatri (trading) caste and far from illiterate, Nanak was not a typical Sant, yet he experienced the same spirit of God in everything outside him and everything within him as did others in the movement he founded. Nanak ...
Despite the Macedonian Empire created by Alexander the Great until the Hindus River was very ephemeral and its unity didn't survive to Alexander's death, this contact between Indian and Greek civilization changed the history of Macedonia but also that of the whole ...
The city is one of the most important commercial cities of the Punjab. It is the most sought after pilgrimage centre of the Sikhs the followers of Guru Nanak, a famous religious teacher from Punjab. The city is in Punjab state, one ...
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