Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Chief Organiser Maryam Nawaz felicitated on Sunday the Hindu community on Diwali.
Expressing her thoughts on the occasion in Lahore, Maryam said: “Wishing the Hindu community on Diwali, the festival of lights. “Your [Hindu community] happiness, peace, and prosperity are dearest to us under the leadership of PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif”. “We [PML-N] always prioritised the rights of the minorities in the country. We will create more opportunities for the minorities in the process of progression and decision-making,” Maryam stated. She underscored the role of the minorities in developing the country, saying, “The prosperity of the minorities is interconnected with the country’s development.” 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.
Bilawal said the PPP believed in inter-faith tolerance and harmony, as well as brotherhood and unity. The minorities had been given equal rights in the 1973 Constitution by the then prime minister Zulfikar AliBhutto.
