Hindus in ... Bali have threatened to stage a strike unless President B.J. Habibie fires a cabinet minister accused of insulting the minority religion ... Media reports have quoted food minister A.M. Saefuddin as saying that opposition faction leader Megawati Sukarnoputri does not deserve Indonesian presidency because she is a Hindu ..
(They) demand Saefuddin, a Muslim party leader, to withdraw his remarks, apologise to Hindus and to resign (and) be put on trial. ...
Saefuddin was reported to have asked: "are the Indonesian people willing to have a Hindu president?" He has apologised, saying he had no intention of insulting any religion. Megawati's paternal grandmother came from the predominantly Hindu Island of Bali. Her father, the late president Sukarno, and her mother were Muslims.
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South Punjab in Pakistan has world's most unusual matrimonial tradition in which girls as young as only six months are sometimes married to old men. The tradition is known as "Watta Satta" in which a family, who has a son and a daughter, marries them in a family who too has a son and daughter. The idea behind this practice is to safeguard family property and also to ensure good relations between the families. Pakistan: Marriage of Infant Girls |
