Pak Hindu widows to get financial assistance

March 06, 2014 19:22

For the first time in Pakistan's history, widows hailing from the minority Hindu community will get financial assistance from a provincial government.

Special Advisor to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister for Minority Affairs, Sardar Sooran Singh said the initiative would provide relief to the deserving women of the minority community.

He made these comments while addressing a cheque distribution ceremony at the Kala Bari Hindu temple, state-run APP news agency reported. Singh said that the government was fully cognisant of the problems faced by the minorities and was taking result-oriented measures to address them.

He said that the government was mulling over initiating several welfare projects for the minorities that would redress their grievances.

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