Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Chief Organiser Maryam Nawaz felicitated on Sunday the Hindu community on Diwali.
Expressing her thoughts on the occasion in Lahore, Maryam said: “Wishing the Hindu community on Diwali, the festival of lights.
“Your [Hindu community] happiness, peace, and prosperity are dearest to us under the leadership of PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif”.
“We [PML-N] always prioritised the rights of the minorities in the country. We will create more opportunities for the minorities in the process of progression and decision-making,” Maryam stated.
She underscored the role of the minorities in developing the country, saying, “The prosperity of the minorities is interconnected with the country’s development."
– Bilawal felicitates Pakistani Hindus on Diwali –
Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has extended felicitations to the Hindu community in Pakistan as well as all those celebrating Diwali, the festival of lights, and expressed his best wishes for them.
According to a press release issued by the media cell of Bilawal House, the PPP chairman, in his message on the occasion of Diwali, said the festival was a symbol of light and joy as well as a message of victory of light over darkness and good over evil.
Bilawal said the PPP believed in inter-faith tolerance and harmony, as well as brotherhood and unity. The minorities had been given equal rights in the 1973 Constitution by the then prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
