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Pushpa Kumari Kohli
Pushpa Kumari Kohli is the first Hindu woman to become a police officer in Pakistan. She was posted as Assistant sub-inspector of police (ASI) in Sindh province after she passed the provincial competitive examination through Sindh Public Service Commission. Early life Pushpa Kumari Kohli was born 1990 in Kohli scheduled caste Hindu family. She grew up in a middle-class family in the Samaro town in the Mirpurkhas District of Sindh Province. Her father runs a grocery store and her mother works as a family planning officer in population welfare department. Education Pushpa Kumari graduated in from Dow University of Health Sciences in critical care in 2014. Career Pushpa worked in the NGO Marie Stopes Society in hometown Samaro. Later she joined the medical field. Till 2018, Pushpa Kumari worked as an intensive care unit (ICU) technologist at the Benazir Bhutto Accident and Emergency Trauma Centre. In 2018, she applied for the vacant Assistant sub-Inspector post in 2018 and wrote th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sindh Police
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Mirpurkhas District
Mirpur Khas District ( sd, ضلعو ميرپورخاص, ur, ) is one of the districts in the province of Sindh, Pakistan. Its capital is Mirpur Khas. Administrative divisions The district of Mirpur Khas is sub-divided into 7 tehsils: * Digri Tehsil * Kot Ghulam Muhammad Tehsil * Mirpur Khas Tehsil * Jhuddo Tehsil * Sindhri Tehsil * Hussain Bux Mari Tehsil Shujabad Tehsil History After the capture of Sindh by the British, In 1882 they created Thar and Parkar District in Southeastern Sindh for administrative purposes.In 1906, the district headquarters was moved from Amarkot (now Umerkot) to Mirpur Khas. In 1953, after the creation of Pakistan, some area on the northern side was detached from the original Tharparkar District and named Sanghar District.On 31 October 1990 the district was divided into the Tharparkar and Mirpur Khas Districts. In the same year, Mirpurkhas also get the status of divisional headquarter. Mirpurkhas District derives its name from the town of Mirpurkh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sindh
Sindh (; ; ur, , ; historically romanized as Sind) is one of the four provinces of Pakistan. Located in the southeastern region of the country, Sindh is the third-largest province of Pakistan by land area and the second-largest province by population after Punjab. It shares land borders with the Pakistani provinces of Balochistan to the west and north-west and Punjab to the north. It shares International border with the Indian states of Gujarat and Rajasthan to the east; it is also bounded by the Arabian Sea to the south. Sindh's landscape consists mostly of alluvial plains flanking the Indus River, the Thar Desert in the eastern portion of the province along the international border with India, and the Kirthar Mountains in the western portion of the province. The economy of Sindh is the second-largest in Pakistan after the province of Punjab; its provincial capital of Karachi is the most populous city in the country as well as its main financial hub. Sindh is home ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dow University Of Health Sciences
The Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) is a public medical university located in the Urban metropolitan area of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. It was founded by Sir Hugh Dow, the then Governor of Sindh, in 1945. The university comprises two health sciences undergraduate research institutes: Dow Medical College and Dow International Medical College. The university also has a very strong department of Postgraduate studies which monitors various basic medical sciences and clinical sciences programs at DUHS. Established in 1945 as the Dow Medical College, it is known for its strong emphasis on economics biomedical, health, and medical research programmes. It is ranked among the top medical schools by HEC in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014. Academics The institution offers undergraduate, post-graduate, doctorate diplomas and certificate courses in almost all academic disciplines relating to medical sciences. Undergraduate programs Dow Institute of Medical Technology offers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sindh Public Service Commission
The Sindh Public Service Commission (SPSC) is a provincial agency of Government of Sindh that is responsible for recruiting civil servants and bureaucrats for the Government of Sindh. History The Public Service Commission was set up for the first time in British India in 1926. After independence, the commission was established in Pakistan in 1947. At present, the commission is functioning under article 242 of the constitution of Pakistan. It has been provided autonomy under the Rules of Business, 1973 and FPSC Regulations, 1978 in its working. The commission has also been given administrative as well as, to some extent, financial autonomy to perform its functions independently. The commission consists of a chairman and members. The chairman is appointed by the Governor of Sindh where as the members are appointed by the Chief Minister of Sindh Chief Minister of Sindh (, ur, —), is the elected head of government of Sindh. Syed Murad Ali Shah is a PPP politician and the cur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hinduism In Pakistan
Hinduism is the second largest religious affiliation in Pakistan after Islam. While Hinduism was one of the dominant faiths in the region a few centuries back, today Hindus account for 2.14% of Pakistan's population or 4.4 million people according to the 2017 Pakistan Census, although Pakistan Hindu Council has claimed that there are 8 million Hindus living in Pakistan, making up 4% of the country's population. The Umerkot district has the highest percentage of Hindu residents in the country at 52.2%, while Tharparkar district has the most Hindus in absolute numbers at 714,698. Before the partition, according to the 1941 census, Hindus constituted 14% of the population in West Pakistan (which is now Pakistan) and 28% of the population in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). After Pakistan gained independence from the British Raj, 4.7 million of West Pakistan's Hindus and Sikhs moved to India as refugees. And in the first census afterwards in 1951, Hindus made up 1.6% of the total ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krishna Kohli
Krishna Kumari Kohli ( sd, ڪرشنا ڪماري ڪولھي ; born 1 February 1979), also known by the nickname Kishoo Bai, is a Pakistani politician who has been the member of the Senate of Pakistan since March 2018. She is the second Hindu woman to hold this position. She is known for her campaigns for women's rights and against bonded labour; and was named as one of the BBC's 100 most influential women in 2018. Early life and education Kolhi was born on 1 February 1979 to a poor Koli family hailing from a village in Nagarparkar. When she was a child and a student of grade three, she and her family were held captive for three years as bonded labourers in a private jail allegedly owned by a landlord in Umerkot District. They were only released after a police raid on their employer's land. She received her early education initially from Umerkot district and then from Mirpurkhas District. She got married at the age of 16 in 1994 while she was studying in grade nine. She contin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mangla Sharma
Mangla Sharma is a Pakistani politician who had been a member of the Provincial Assembly of Sindh from August 2018 to August 2023. Political career She was elected to the Provincial Assembly of Sindh as a candidate of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on a reserved seat for women in 2018 Pakistani general election. Personal life Sharma belongs to the Hindu Hindus (; ) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism.Jeffery D. Long (2007), A Vision for Hinduism, IB Tauris, , pages 35–37 Historically, the term has also been used as a geographical, cultural, and later religious identifier for ... community. See also *Pushpa Kumari Kohli References Living people Muttahida Qaumi Movement MPAs (Sindh) Year of birth missing (living people) Pakistani Hindus {{Sindh-MPA-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veeru Kohli
Veeru Kohli (born 1964) is a Pakistani bonded labor and human rights activist. She is known for starting to campaign against slavery after twenty years of living in bondage herself. Personal life She was born to a poor Hindu scheduled caste agricultural labourer's family in Allahdino Shah village in Jhuddo, Sindh province, and was married at the age of 16 into a family bonded to their landlord."Veeru Kohli: From bonded labourer to election hopeful" Dawn.com, 24 April 2014.A brick-solid activist, ''Express Tribune'', 13 Dec 2015 /ref> She is now a widow with 11 children. Her name is sometimes written as V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suman Kumari
Suman Pawan Bodani is a Pakistani judge. She and Diana Kumari are the first Hindu women to become judges in Pakistan. She is currently serving in her native district Qambar Shahdadkot District, Qambar Shahdadkot. Career Suman Kumari earned her master's degree in Law from the Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology University. She then worked for advocate Rasheed A. Razvi’s firm. In 2019, she passed the examination for induction of judicial officers and was appointed as a civil judge. Personal life Bodani lives in Qambar Shahdadkot District. Her father Dr. Pawan Kumar Bodani is an eye Specialty (medicine), specialist. Her elder sister is a software engineer and another sister is a chartered accountant. Bodani is a fan of singers Lata Mangeshkar and Atif Aslam. See also *Krishna Kohli *Pushpa Kumari Kohli *Veeru Kohli *Mahesh Kumar Malani *Rahul Dev(pilot), Rahul Dev *Hinduism in Pakistan References Hindu law jurists Pakistani Hindus Year of birth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pakistani Hindus
Hinduism is the second largest religious affiliation in Pakistan after Islam. While Hinduism was one of the dominant faiths in the region a few centuries back, today Hindus account for 2.14% of Pakistan's population or 4.4 million people according to the 2017 Pakistan Census, although Pakistan Hindu Council has claimed that there are 8 million Hindus living in Pakistan, making up 4% of the country's population. The Umerkot district has the highest percentage of Hindu residents in the country at 52.2%, while Tharparkar district has the most Hindus in absolute numbers at 714,698. Before the partition, according to the 1941 census, Hindus constituted 14% of the population in West Pakistan (which is now Pakistan) and 28% of the population in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). After Pakistan gained independence from the British Raj, 4.7 million of West Pakistan's Hindus and Sikhs moved to India as refugees. And in the first census afterwards in 1951, Hindus made up 1.6% of the total ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
