Sardar Ramesh Singh Arora – Pakistan’s Punjab Province’s 1st Sikh Minister
He was sworn in along with 17 others on Wednesday. Lahore: Sardar Ramesh Singh Arora, an influential minority leader, has been sworn in as a state minister, becoming the first Sikh to hold a ministerial position in post-partition Punjab. Arora, who belongs to former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Party (PML-N), won the […]
Pakistani Maryam Nawaz becomes first woman elected as chief minister in Punjab
Maryam Nawaz became the first woman to hold the title of Chief Minister of Pakistan’s eastern province of Punjab. Nawaz defeated his rival Rana Aftab to become prime minister by a vote of 220-0. She was later sworn in at the governor’s office in the eastern city of Lahore. Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s […]
Muslims Set Fire To 8 Christian Churches In Pakistan’s Punjab Province, Citing ‘Blasphemy’
A view of a burnt church in the outskirts of Faisalabad following an attack by a Muslim man after a Christian family was accused of blasphemy on August 16, 2023. Hundreds of Muslim men set fire to four churches and destroyed a cemetery after a riot broke out in eastern Pakistan on August 16 and […]