Atrocities on Hindus

More than 70 Sikh and Hindu families who have been displaced from Khyber Agency, Pakistan had taken shelter in Gurudwara Bhai Joga Singh, Peshawar, Gurdwara Punja Saheb.

Anger and disillusionment after the Supreme Court's decision on the Rinkle Kumari case is not limited to her family. It seems to be shared by Sindhis in general and Sindhi Hindus in particular.

Things have just gone from bad to worse for the Hindu community in Pakistan's Balochistan region. So adverse is the scenario that around 100 more Hindu families from the region have applied to the Indian High Commission seeking asylum.

Unidentified men on Sunday vandalised a historic Hindu temple in Peshawar city of northwest Pakistan that was reopened on the orders of a court last year, police officials and local residents said.

The state is failing, if not already failed, which makes it open season on everyone who is not strong enough to protect themselves.

The Supreme Court on Thursday disposed of a petition moved by the Pakistan Hindu Council calling for a specific law against elements who lure people into changing their religion.

Members in Rajya Sabha from various parties on Thursday expressed concern over the plight of Hindus in Pakistan and asked the government to grant citizenship to those who want to come back.

Terming the treatment meted out to the persecuted Hindus in India a gross violation of human rights, Gadkari said that the BJP will intensify its movement for justice for the persecuted Hindus.

Voicing concern over problems faced by minority Hindus in Pakistan, India on Wednesday reminded Islamabad of its responsibility to discharge its Constitutional obligations towards its citizens.

The body bore marks of sharp knife. The victim used to distribute religious books among the local people. It could be a case of sectarian target killing, an official said.

Hindu women in Pakistan are routinely kidnapped and then forced to convert if they want the respectability of marriage. They are helpless, as they have neither the numbers nor the political clout to protect themselves

A day after senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi raised the matter in the Lok Sabha, the BJP parliamentary party took serious note of the violation of human rights of Hindu women in the Islamic country and cases of forced conversion.

If Muslims in India constantly crib to have no say and no power, they should come to Pakistan to see the plight of minority Hindus with their own eyes. They'll never complain and learn to live peacefully with their Hindu brethren in India.

Speaking during Zero Hour, Joshi alleged that Hindu women were being kidnapped in Pakistan and forced to convert to Islam.

“Hindus are like a fish out of water in Pakistan. They all want to come to India, hoping to put an end to their misery – but it is a different story here altogether,” says Krishan Lal, who is one of a group of 145 Hindus who fled Pakistan on a pilgrimage visa.