31-year old Sunita Parmar, a Hindu woman in Pakistan's Sindh province, will become the first from the minority community to contest the provincial assembly elections to be held on July 25.<br /><br />Parmar is a member of the scheduled caste and from the Meghwar community. Scheduled castes are those lower Hindu castes protected by Pakistani law.<br /><br />She will contest the election as an independent candidate for the Sindh Assembly constituency PS-56 from Tharparkar district – in the Thar Desert.<br /><br />According to the 2017 census, Tharparkar has a population of 1.6 million. Half of those are Hindus, of which the majority – like Parmar belongs to the scheduled castes, at the bottom of the social class system.
