{"id":10106,"date":"2024-03-29T09:58:42","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T09:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/?p=10106"},"modified":"2024-03-29T09:58:43","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T09:58:43","slug":"pakistan-is-home-to-a-rich-diversity-of-religious-communities-jane-marriott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/?p=10106","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan is home to a rich diversity of religious communities, Jane Marriott"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"711\" height=\"519\" data-id=\"10107\" src=\"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG-20240329-WA0063.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10107\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG-20240329-WA0063.jpg 711w, https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG-20240329-WA0063-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 711px) 100vw, 711px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>British High Commissioner hosts 12 faiths at interfaith Iftar dinner<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Islamabad : British High Commissioner, Jane Marriott CMG OBE said that Today&#8217;s interfaith Iftar was a wonderful reminder of the white in Pakistan&#8217;s flag. Pakistan is home to a rich diversity of religious communities, and breaking bread together allowed us to discuss important issues of peace and harmony_.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>British High Commissioner Jane Marriott hosted an Iftar dinner at the British High Commission for leading members of different religious communities across Pakistan to celebrate the country&#8217;s rich cultural diversity.<br>Over 80 people from 12 faiths, including heritage experts working to promote cultural and religious diversity in Pakistan, attended the Iftar.<br>At the event, religious leaders broke bread together and discussed issues surrounding tolerance, acceptance and inclusion amongst Pakistan&#8217;s multi-faith and multi-cultural groups. High Commissioner of Sri Lanka to Pakistan, H.E. Admiral Ravindra C Wijegunaratne, represented followers of the Buddhist faith at the Iftar, which has a rich history in Pakistan. Dr Saveera Prakash, the first Hindu woman to contest elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the 2024 General Elections, delivered a speech describing her campaigning experience and stressed interfaith harmony in Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" data-id=\"10108\" src=\"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG-20240329-WA0060-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG-20240329-WA0060-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG-20240329-WA0060-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG-20240329-WA0060-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG-20240329-WA0060.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Chief Guest on the occasion Minister for Human Rights, Azam Nazeer Tarar<\/em> said:<br>\u201c <em>Pakistan is proud of its rich cultural and religious traditions, seeing freedom of belief and interfaith harmony as key to our democracy. I&#8217;m excited to join the interfaith iftar by the British High Commission, uniting leaders of different faiths, and look forward to closer cooperation with the UK.<\/em> \u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"445\" data-id=\"10109\" src=\"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG-20240329-WA0062-1024x445.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG-20240329-WA0062-1024x445.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG-20240329-WA0062-300x131.jpg 300w, https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG-20240329-WA0062-768x334.jpg 768w, https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG-20240329-WA0062-1536x668.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG-20240329-WA0062.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British High Commissioner hosts 12 faiths at interfaith Iftar dinner Islamabad : British High Commissioner, Jane Marriott CMG OBE said that Today&#8217;s interfaith Iftar was a wonderful reminder of the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,28],"tags":[364,234,472],"class_list":["post-10106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-diplomacy","tag-british-high-commission-pakistan","tag-british-high-commissioner","tag-ministry-of-human-rights-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10110,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10106\/revisions\/10110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}