(15 Jan 2025)
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Karachi, Pakistan – 12 January 2025
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Various of Hindu couples at a mass wedding ceremony organised by Pakistan Hindu Council
2. Close of a fire
3. Close of a person speaking during the ceremony
4. Tilt up on a bride
5. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Mukesh Kumar, Head of the Pakistan Hindu Council:
“This is the 18th programme. In 17 programmes, 1,625 couples got married. Today, we have 106 couples including couples from other areas. Every year 125 couples get married. We provide transport to those living far away. We provide the necessary household items to every couple.”
6. Various of recently married couple, Wishni Natho and Amar Faqeera
7. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Amar Faqeera, newly-wedded groom: ++QUALITY AS INCOMING++
"We were in trouble financially. My income is very little. I couldn’t have borne the expenses of the wedding on my own. That’s why we are here at this mass wedding programme. We want to live happily. I want my parents to live happily.”
8. Close of items used in the wedding
9. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Wishni Natho, newly-wedded bride:
"We used to come here to watch others get married. Today, we are getting married. We are very happy.”
10. Various of Faqeera putting a ring and garland on Natho
11. Various of crowds
12. Various of wedding parties in booths
13. Wide of guests
STORYLINE:
More than a hundred couples got married at a mass wedding organised by the Pakistan Hindu Council in Karachi on Sunday.
“Every year 125 couples get married. We provide transport to those living far away. We provide the necessary household items to every couple,” siad Mukesh Kumar, the Head of the Pakistan Hindu Council.
1,625 couples had been married in the previous 17 programmes of the event, added Kumar.
Some of the couples saw the event as an opportunity to bypass the cost of getting married.
“My income is very little. I couldn’t have borne the expenses of the wedding on my own,” said recently-wedded groom Mukesh Kumar.
"That’s why we are here at this mass wedding programme. We want to live happily," he added.
1.9% of Pakistan’s population are Hindus, with Hinduism being Pakistan’s second-largest religion behind Islam.
AP video shot by Muhammad Farooq.
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