Category: World
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Sikh heritage in Pakistan dying, says author as Sikh Foundation of Canada honours him
By Gurmukh Singh TORONTO: Singapore-based Amardeep Singh, who was honoured at the annual gala of the Sikh Foundation of Canada here in Toronto on April 21 for his landmark work on Sikh heritage in Pakistan, says historical Khalsa monuments in that country are on the verge of extinction. Everything must be done to preserve them…
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World’s first penis transplant
News East West American surgeons at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore have created history by performing the world’s first penis transplant on an serviceman whose genitals were blown off in an explosion in Afghanistan. A team of nine plastic surgeons and two urological surgeons performed the 14-hour surgery on March 26. The entire penis, scrotum…
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Village named Malala in Pakistan
The Canadian Bazaar Malala Yousafzai, 17, the world’s youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner, has now a village named after her in her native Pakistan. The village is in Rawalpindi district of Pakistan – not far from the capital Islamabad. Tweeting a picture of the village board bearing the name Malala, Pakistani Social activist Baseer Ahmad…
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Sikh woman says she embraced Islam and married Pakistani as her life was hell in India
News East West NEW DELHI: A 31-year-old Sikh woman, who while visiting Pakistan for Baisakhi celebrations converted to Islam and married a Muslim man, has moved the Lahore High Court to grant her Pakistani citizenship. Kiran Bala, who is a widow with three children and comes from Garhshankar in Hoshiarpur district of Indian Punjab, says…