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Publication: Punjab
Kesari (Hindi)
Date: December 3, 2000
The Pakistani Hindu community
has decided to boycott the local elections. These residents of the
southern sector of Sindh province are opposing the electoral system that
deprives the minorities of its voting rights. The decision to boycott
the election was taken at a meeting held at Jakokabad in which more than
35 Hindu organizations participated. In the meeting, addressing over
five hundred delegates coming from the whole province, former members of
parliament Hari Ram, Kishori Ram and Pitambar Ray said that the minorities
were being denied the right to vote granted to them by the constitution.
The representatives participating in the meeting said that they will not
accept the ordinance under which a different electoral process has been
proposed which deprives them of their voting rights.
