The Hindu community celebrated Diwali across Pakistan like other parts of the world on Sunday, with the celebrations mainly concentrated in Sindh which houses the largest share of them in the country.
Promising to protect and promote the rights of minorities, PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday congratulated the Hindus on Diwali –the annual five-day festival of lights that coincides with the harvesting of summer crops.
Meanwhile, 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.
