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Pathetic conditions of Hindus, Sikhs and other minorities in Pakistan

Just Earth News | @justearthnews | 23 Aug 2022, 01:24 am Print

Pathetic conditions of Hindus, Sikhs and other minorities in Pakistan Pakistan Minorities

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Minorities including Hindus, Sikhs, Christians, Ahmadiyyas and even Shiites in Pakistan are constantly being murdered and subjected to inhuman brutalities in the name of blasphemy, conversion to Islam and other sectarian differences.

In this nearly Talibanised country, there is nothing more important than who runs the country and how.

Other important issues are usually ignored by the majority of Pakistanis and their media. Grave conditions of minorities they are living in do not bother Pakistani people. 

Apathy of Pakistanis in general and political class and ruling elite including establishment in particular is focused on grabbing power and amassing wealth.

Leave aside minorities; the Pakistani elite is indifferent even towards the grievances and plight of the majority comprising poor and destitute Muslims.

One can imagine their apathy towards miseries and pains of the common people.

Whether they are rulers, opposition or military establishment or media, all are circling around Shahbaz Gill and Imran Khan at a time when more than half of Pakistan is submerged in devastating floods. 

Over 800 of people and lakhs of livestock have been killed; lakhs of houses and lakhs of acres of agricultural land have been washed away by the floods

In Hyderabad city of Sindh, fanatic Muslims for grabbing land of Hindu minority, on Aug 21 started rioting and sectarian violence on pretext of blasphemy against Hindu‘Baniyas’.

A fanatic Muslim alleged that Hindu Baniyas are encroaching land in Saddar area of Hyderabad.

He questioned if they should not do anything to Hindus who have desecrated the Quran. He urged Muslims to wake up and occupy the whole Saddar area.

He asked Muslims to take vendetta of atrocities on Muslims in India and beat up Hindus wherever they found them.

In view of the volatile situation in the city, Hyderabad (Sindh) commissioner has imposed section 144 across the city in the wake of the alleged blasphemy case.

Section 144 will ban public gatherings from 22 August to 24 August.

For the sake of eye washing, the police arrested 48 rioters who were clogging Hindus work and causing chaos.

They have been released on bail. However, one Hindu has been kept in the prison, pleading there is threat to his life from the fanatic mob. No wonder, the mob of Islamists incited by the people with vested interests may attack the Police Station.

In another incident of ongoing repression against Hindus, some radical Islamists opened fires at Mandir in Rohri, Sindh yesterday.

A local reporter at Sindh TV and some Islamists are understood to have been involved in the incident. 

Their motive is to damage /destroy the Hindu temple in the guise of the rainwater issue.  Members of Hindu community appealed to the Sindh government, Pak Prime Minister, and FM Bilawal Bhutto to notify them of the incident. 

They said that if injustice doesn't end, they will leave Pakistan.

The pathetic condition of minorities does not end here. On the same day, in Peer Baba Kpk province, a Sikh girl teacher, namely Deena Kaur was kidnapped and converted to Islam.

Today her family was told that her Nikah has been performed.

The local police didn’t even register the FIR & has asked the Sikh community to stay silent. Deen Kaur was forced to tell that she was inspired from Islam and she accepted Islam with her willingly.

How much Talibanised society has Pakistan become even for fellow Muslims,particularly women folk, is evident from an incident in Bannu district of Kpk where local clerics stormed a family park to shut it down or ban the entry of women.

They alleged that the park was “promoting obscenity”.

Last week women were abused and pushed out of a park in the nearby Lakki Marwat district for the same reason.