India rejected separate Sikh Marriage Act which Pak enacted 4 yrs ago

[ares]

Yes we can because the onus is on you

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pity majority of you have some hidden fear and shying away from accepting just demands of your own citizens.
one wonders why you guys are against this law???

You as Pakistani and I as Indian can discuss rights of minorities all day long ..but it not a level playing field .. as your country does not even give its minorities equal rights .

 

[RezRoll]

For many people sex and bearing children outside marriage is also not a big thing so for such people it wont matter but for many it does

Official marriage is an official marriage regardless of the act it is written under. Your comparison to sex and bearing children outside marriage makes zero sense.

We're all actually nitpicking on a non-important subject. A bunch of guys talking about marriage laws on an army defence forum. Oh, the irony.

 

[jdme]

LOL do that and then watch the reactions of all these people losing their sleep over Indian secularism on this thread

Jana will go mad for sure. Oh, India is not secular. India is fake secular.

Anything India does is anti-secularism! India needs to emulate secularism as practiced in developed nations.

At the least, take the word Hindu out of Hindu marriage act.

 

[notsuperstitious]

Official marriage is an official marriage regardless of the act it is written under. Your comparison to sex and bearing children outside marriage makes zero sense.

We're all actually nitpicking on a non-important subject. A bunch of guys talking about marriage laws on an army defence forum. Oh, the irony.

You are underestimating the importance of this issue to Pakistanis at this particular juncture in the history of that nation.

What if they can not read already posted replies, what if if they do, they fail to comprehend whats written, what if they have pre conceived notions, their concern for minority rights (in India) can not be doubted.

 

[DarK-LorD]

It's time to ban the Hindu Marriage act.

 

[ifesvr]

The Sikh Marriage act in Pakistan came in because Sikhs didn't even have a marriage act! The whole discussion has been going on as if the Sikhs has got a separate identity in Pakistan as a result of this Act. Hindus in Pak, like Sikhs until 2007, still don't have a law where they can register their marriages. So spare all this moral talk about secularism or minority rights.

Moreover this Act was passed at the request of World Muslim Sikh federation (group for Pak origin muslims and sikhs in UK) and not the Pakistan SGPC. The reason I point this out is bcos they have some reservations about it. As a result no marriages have been registered in the Act!!!

Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan

 

[Executioner]

Do some research before write $hit.

 

[Mabs]

President is a symbolic position in a parliamentary democracy which both India and Pakistan are. The president does not hold any real power. You can point fingers at Pakistan when you have a Muslim PM.

 

[notsuperstitious]

President is a symbolic position in a parliamentary democracy which both India and Pakistan are. The president does not hold any real power. You can point fingers at Pakistan when you have a Muslim PM.

Three problems with your post

1) If President has no power, then why bar non muslims in Pakistan?
2) How do Pakistani Hindus register their marriages?
3) India constitution does not bar Muslims from becoming PM, its a FACT. We are not going to elect someone our PM in order to add a dropful of filling into an abyss of unfathomable ignorance. It will be futile.

 

[Omar1984]

Poll added after a request from a member.

 

[scrumpy]

I demand a Flying Spaghetti Monster marriage act.

Where is Anna? I want an anshan until I get my demand met.

Why not just say that whichever way you want to get married, get married but we will only recognise your marriage once you have registered it with the local authorities.

 

[ares]

President is a symbolic position in a parliamentary democracy which both India and Pakistan are. The president does not hold any real power. You can point fingers at Pakistan when you have a Muslim PM.

So does your constitution allow you to have Hindu/ Sikh PM in Pakistan??

 

[killeragent]

That he is by and large misinformed. There is nothing in the 'Hindu Marriage Act' that is prejudicial to the Sikhs or Buddhists or Jains. The only problem seems to be the name of the Act and surely it can be changed to something non-religious and wherever the word 'Hindu' has been used as a generic term, any such reference be removed and replaced with a suitable non-religious generic term. (Mind you the term 'Hindu' is used in the Act as a generic not specific term.)

There is no need for a separate Act though.

There is a need to shut the faces of sikh fundamentalists... But quite ironic , govt doesnt want to reconcile with its citizens.

How about this, Hindu's getting married under Sikh marriage act??
Great, you would see Shiv sena , RSS and Bajrang Dal on roads like a GUnda.

 

[jdme]

President is a symbolic position in a parliamentary democracy which both India and Pakistan are. The president does not hold any real power. You can point fingers at Pakistan when you have a Muslim PM.

This is a strange post. On one hand, Pakistani forumers are trying to separate Sikhs from Hindus and Jains by arguing over "Sikh marriage act" and in same instance, they want a Muslim PM in India because Sikh PM doesn't cut it (an Hindu as for as they are concerned?). Perhaps they might even dismiss a Christian PM?

 

[Raja.Pakistani]

Secular Principles like??

Dude principle of secularism is to carry out the activities of life in this world whether in the fields of economy, politics, education, administration, culture, communications and so on in complete separation from religion or without any connection whatsoever with the Hereafter/God etc