Mitti, Pakistan.
Hindus is preparing food for Muslims’ fasting in the Pakistan desert city, who, in turn, gather the Holie march, the rare moment of the Islamic nation.
Discrimination against minorities is deepened by a Muslim majority in Pakistan, but that tension was not found in Martium, which is located in the bang sand reservoir and mud-brick houses.
“All the traditions and rituals here are celebrated together,” Raj Kumar told AFP, the 30-year-old old businessman.
“You will see that the young people of Hindu are joining the Muslim youth together in Holly, saying together,” he added.
“Even at the end of the Muslim prayer, Imam says:” Peace of Hindus and Muslims. “
This year, Holly Hindu Festival and the month of Islamic Fasting of Ramadan fell together. The two events are moving according to the lunar calendar every year.
The color festival has had the arrival of spring and gross crowd for centuries, throwing colored powder and water on each other.
Last week, Hundreds of Hindus kept the march through Mitti’s streets, few people where they form a majority to warmly meet their Muslim neighbors.
“We have learned to live in childhood. This came to us through generations, and we also follow it, “after organizing food for Muslims for Muslims.
The cows, considered to be in St. Hinduism, freely walk through Mitti’s streets, while women wear traditional embroidered scenes, which decorate with mirror work.
There is no beef shop in the city, as his meat is banned in Hinduism, and Muslims are sacrificed only during festivals.
Mittin, about 60,000 people, are mainly Hindu, in a country where 96 percent of 240 million people are Muslim, and two percent of Hindu.
A Christian woman, a Christian woman, traveled to Karachi’s port, about 320 km (200 miles) to witness.
“After three religions, people are here, Christians, Hindus and Muslims,” he said.
“We wanted to see ourselves that it was right, and there is no doubt that it is.”
“In us any department”
Ramadan is a month of peaceful prayer and reflection in Islam, and Hindus that respects their Muslim neighbors will not join Holy celebrations with ordinary fervor.
“Today you may not see the colors on me, but they used to stimulate me in colors,” said Mahliim Charpassy Babu Aslamhan, when he used to dust the local Hindu Kumar Malia.
“If Hindu is driving for the office, Muslims also vote for their favor, and vice versa,” said Malan, the only elected minority deputy of the country’s only elected minority.
According to temples, there were no temples, there was no armed security. Other parts of Pakistan.
Freedom of religion or faith remains under a constant threat in the country, which increases violence and age for religious motives according to Pakistani Human Rights Committee.
The state authorities often failed to resolve this crisis for political interests for political interest, the commission reported.
But in Misc, a 19-year-old Muslim worker Afan said to AFP. “There are no departments in us. We are all equal. “
The officials of the local police and administration report that the city has a low crime with the main security challenges, which allows them to easily agree on major religious festivals.
“Their business, their daily routine, and their interactions have been together for centuries, and they are still strong,” said the local resident Abdul Heilem.
“A little feeling of fear”
Locals say Mithi’s peaceful existence can back down to its remote location, which develops from the Rivers of the “calfish desert” sand, which borders the modern Indian state of Rajah.
With fruitless soil and restricted water, it saved the bloody division of looting and the bloody of 1947, when India and Pakistan were established, and many Hindus fled to a new border.
But several residents told AFP that in recent years the Prosperous Armenia Party increases as a result of the growth of newcomers as a result of growing infrastructure.
The major project near the nearby coal has brought employees from other regions to the city, and supporters of a radical Islamist party.
A large flag in the central square of the city depends on Tehrake-Electronic Labbayik Pakistan (TLP), which is a central concern of the explosive question of swearing.
“People leaving the city are doubtful and a little feeling of fear,” said AFP, Hindu Lordan, 52-year-old Hindu School.
“But in general, things are still well controlled and peaceful.”
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