{"id":308630,"date":"2019-01-29T11:31:28","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T11:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=308630"},"modified":"2019-01-29T11:31:28","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T11:31:28","slug":"mehbooba-hails-appointment-of-first-hindu-woman-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/mehbooba-hails-appointment-of-first-hindu-woman-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Mehbooba hails appointment of first Hindu woman in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-308631 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/mehbooba-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"546\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/mehbooba-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/mehbooba.jpg 511w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former J&amp;K Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has hailed the appointment of Suman Kumari as Pakistan\u2019s first Hindu woman judge, saying\u00a0 it was heartening to see Pakistan allowing its minorities to play a role in nation building.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cHeartening to see Pakistan allowing minorities to play a role in nation building. I hope this development allows them to revisit their blasphemy laws,\u201d Mehbooba tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, the first judge from the Hindu community was Justice Rana Bhagwandas, who rose through the ranks and served as the acting chief justice for brief periods between 2005 and 2007.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hindu community\u00a0 comprises 2 per cent of Pakistan&#8217;s total population.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former J&amp;K Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has hailed the appointment of Suman Kumari as Pakistan\u2019s first Hindu woman judge, saying\u00a0 it was heartening to see Pakistan allowing its minorities to play a role in nation building.\u00a0 \u201cHeartening to see Pakistan allowing minorities to play a role in nation building. I hope this development allows them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":308631,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[1376,10717],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308630"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308632,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308630\/revisions\/308632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/308631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}