28 June 2011

Mass Wedding

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                         Hindu couples from poor families tied the knot at a mass wedding organised by an NGO in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi.The couples sat in colourfully designed mandaps at the YMCA Lawn during the event organised yesterday by the Pakistan Hindu Council, which bore all expenses and provided the dowry for the brides.About 180 needy couples took part in the mass marriage, which Pakistan’s Sind provincial government supported with a 15,000 PKR (USD 187) donation per couple.



                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Each couple was allowed to bring 20 guests and the bride was given jewellery, a bed set, quilts and blankets, a television, an iron, clothes and utensils, Pakistan Hindu Council president Ramesh Kumar Vankhwani said.         
                                                                                                                                                                      A mass wedding ceremony was held in downtown Tianjin, a northern Chinese city, on Thursday to celebrate the 2008 Olympic Games held in August, Xinhua News Agency reports.                                            

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