LAHORE, Jul 25 (APP):Provincial Minister for Minorities Affairs Sardar Ramesh Singh Arora Thursday presided over a consultative meeting regarding registration of the Hindu marriages in the Punjab province.
The purpose of the meeting was to make the process of legal registration of Hindu community marriages easier and more effective.
Secretary Human Rights Ali Bahadur Qazi, deputy secretary minorities, President Pakistan Hindu Mandir Management Committee Krishan Sharma, Professor Minhaj University Sabir Naz and other relevant persons were present.
The provincial minister said, “We understand the problems of Hindu community and will provide full support to facilitate their marriage registration process. The Punjab government believes that there should be no hindrance in the provision of their fundamental rights to all minorities.”
In the meeting, the leaders of the Hindu community presented their proposals and discussed the current issues in detail. Krishan Sharma said, “This is an important step and we appreciate the effort of the Punjab government. We hope that soon we will see a solution to our problems.”
Professor Minhaj University Sabir Naz said that it would be better to include all the representatives of the Hindu community in the consultation meeting. The provincial minister assured the participants that it would be taken forward only after mutual consultation of all the stakeholders because the vision of the Punjab government was to create ease in the lives of people.
At the end of the meeting, the minister and the representatives of the Hindu community expressed their commitment that they would solve all the problems through mutual cooperation and consultation and devise a system that would make the registration of Hindu marriages easy and effective.
