The Hindu community in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakthunkhwa is protesting against the planned oath taking ceremony of a member of the provincial assembly accused of murdering a Sikh lawmaker. Baldev Kumar, who is in jail in the murder case of Sikh lawmaker Sardar Soran Singh, was to be produced in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Monday. Coordinator KP chif minister on Minorities Ravi Kumar described the oath taking of Kumar as a sad day for the minorities of the province. Singh, a lawmaker from Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, was shot dead in April 2016 in Buner district of the province. Singh was elected to the provincial assembly on a minority seat.

Source: Hindustan Times February 26, 2018 14:48 UTC