We would receive threatening letters about how if we do not accept the ‘one and only true form of Islam’ we would be killed or worse, our daughters would be raped because according to them sexually assaulting an Ahmadi woman was not considered a crime.”
Many Ahmadi students have been expelled from colleges and universities without any rhyme or reason
There! Corrected the heading to accurately reflect the content of this report.arun wrote:Report on religion inspired Intra-Mohammadden violence unleashed by the followers of the majority Sunni sect of Mohammaddenism on their co-religionists belonging to the minority Shia / Shiite sect in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan during 2012. Report provides month wise, city wise and province wise statistics:
502 Shia Muslimsembraced martyrdompaid the price in 2012 due totakfiri terroristattacks by fellow muslims
Islamabad, January 28, 2013
Insecurity has increased in the minority sikh community of Peshawar city in northwest Pakistan after the kidnapping of a Sikh man and the killing of another, a media report said on Monday. Mohinder Singh, a herbal medicines seller, was kidnapped in Khyber tribal region last November. His mutilated body was found in a deserted location in the tribal belt last month.
Last week, kidnappers took away Raghbir Singh, a 40-year-old cloth dealer, from near his house at Quaidabad on the outskirts of Peshawar.
Around 3,000 sikhs have settled in Peshawar, mostly in Dabgari area, while hundreds more live in other districts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province and Khyber and Orakzai tribal regions.
in August 2012, Daily Times had reported that around 7,000 to 10,000 Pakistani Hindus left the country in the last two years because of feudalism, class system, religious discrimination, forced conversion, forced marriages and poor law and order situation in their areas. The minority feels society has become more insecure for their young girls and it is also scared after the court’s decision in Rinkal Kumari’s conversion case. Approximately 4.2 million Hindus, 3.9 million Christians, 16,000 Sikhs and thousands of other minorities’ members, including Ahmedis, are living in Pakistan.
Answering queries by journalists on the Hindu migration issue, Dr Bhatti accepting the fact said that around 50 Pakistani Hindu families have left for India for a better future, however, they were not satisfied with the conditions in the neighbouring country. He did not say that the Hindu migration was being caused by any injustice with them in Pakistan, and clarified that there was no restriction on any member of the minority to move to the other country (India) if he sees a better future there.
Answering questions about the failure of the government to arrest murderers of his brother, ex-minister Shahbaz Bhatti and blasphemy laws, Dr Bhatti avoided direct comments and just said that his brother was not killed by one man but a mindset working behind him, and there was a need to change that mindset. Speaking on the blasphemy laws issue, he condemned the western artists and media who were involved in making blasphemous caricatures of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), and said that it was his firm belief that no believer of Christ would attempt such a thing.
Dr Bhatti also said that Christians or other minorities have no problem with the blasphemy laws under Article 295 of the constitution of Pakistan, but they wanted to stop the misuse of these articles and sub-articles.
Random epiphanies can often lead people out of their homelands and across borders, where they are doomed to spend their lives in gloomy tent house settlements.
For Chetan Bheel, a burly, middle-aged man from Pakistan’s Sindh province, that epiphany came during his last visit to Jodhpur, when he went to visit a well-to-do relative. The man was sitting in his courtyard and beside him was his pet dog sitting on a chair, says Chetan. “On seeing me, he did not shoo his dog off the chair but instead asked his servant to bring another chair for me to sit on.”
That was when he realised that “pet dogs are treated better in India than Hindus are in Sindh”. {And, come to think of it, Sindh is the best region for the Hindus}
So last year, Chetan, along with his family and another 166 people, decided to leave Sindh and move to India, “the land of our ancestors”, for a life of dignity. The 171 Hindus that arrived in Jodhpur last September comprised the single largest group to have crossed over since the fencing of the Indo-Pak border.
“But now my people curse me for leading them here. ‘We left our homes and came here on your advice, now it rains and we are left facing this bitter winter out in the open’ , they say,” rues Chetan, adding, “There they used to call us all kafirs, and here we are ostracised for being Pakistanis.”
There are five major and several other smaller settlements of Pakistani Hindu immigrants in Jodhpur and about 7,000 Hindus continue to live as asylum seekers all across the State.
While spending harsh desert winters under the open sky and sleeping out the nights on wet ground make for extremely inhuman living conditions, for the 171 Pakistani Hindus, cramped in a small cluster of makeshift tents on the outskirts of Jodhpur, it is just another chapter in the story of their collective misery.
At this point, the one thing they are concerned about is to get the “refugee status” from the Government of India. “Both the Centre and the State government are absolutely indifferent to their plight. All they are demanding is to be declared refugees but the government is shying away because then it will have to provide them with basic facilities like food and shelter,” says Hindu Singh Sodha of the Seemant Lok Sangathan, which has been working with Hindu immigrants from Pakistan.
Unlike other refugees living in India, these people have not crossed over to the country illegally but have visas and passports, points out Mr. Sodha. He feels that the indifference might have stemmed from the fact that the asylum seekers are Bhil tribals with little or no representation in the government or the bureaucracy.
“Of late, members of castes like Jats and Malis have also started coming over. Perhaps that will make the government take notice,” he adds.
Four years ago, the Rajasthan government had constituted a high-level committee to address the lingering issue of the Pakistani aslyum seekers. However, Mr. Sodha, who is also on the committee, says the panel has not met even once.
{Of course, we know the reason. The refugees are kafir}
Earlier, people used to cross over via Attari along the Wagah border but since 2006, the Thar Express, an international train service connecting Jodhpur to Karachi, has been the preferred mode of transport for those seeking entry into India.
“Going through the Punjab border used to be a tormenting endeavour. Punjabi soldiers on the Pakistan side used to abuse us and call us kafirs for travelling to India. But Sindhi officers do not care as long as they get their share of bribes and cuts from the ticket prices,” says Gowardhan, who came to Jodhpur five years ago.
Till a few years ago, people came to India on a visitor's visa but with visa restrictions getting tougher, the pilgrim visa has emerged as a surer way to book a berth aboard the Thar Express. Getting a pilgrim visa is easier, especially in view of the ongoing kumbh mela .
Getting tickets to board the Thar Express, however, is also a challenge. “The journey from Karachi to Bhagat ki Kothi station in Jodhpur costs a little over Rs. 400 but when authorities see groups of people desperate to cross over, they charge much more. We paid Rs. 700 each for 171 tickets,” says Chetan.
Once they are here, most of them stay in Jodhpur; but many also fan out to remote villages spread across districts of western Rajasthan.
“We originally belong to Jaisalmer but during the 1960s drought, our families crossed over to Sindh in search of labour and settled there. For us, it was easier to go to Sindh than to Gujarat because of the distance. Also the border used to be very porous then,” says Premchand, who crossed over 10 years ago.
“In the 70s, we were given identity cards under the Zufikar Ali Bhutto government. It was all good till the Babri masjid demolition in India, after which things took a turn for the worse and we realised we were in the danger of being persecuted,” he says.
Interviews with the asylum seekers suggest the Hindu minorities in Sindh have been living under the shadow of segregation and persecution on religious grounds. People said the harassment was manifested in Hindu children being discriminated against in government schools, Hindu residents not being allowed to buy property and bullied into leaving their establishments among others.
The BBC is reporting that death toll in this particular demonstration of the IEDology of Pakistan has climbed to 47.kish wrote:Arrah o akball, the score has improved. 25 muzlims in pakisatan are happily going to jannat, 100 others who got injured have some chances.Brad Goodman wrote:Large blast hits Quetta; at least five wounded ............... {Snipped}
Bomb kills at least 25 on Kirani road in Quetta
A remote-controlled bomb killed at least 25 people, while seriously injuring 100 others in Quetta on Saturday, police said
"25 people have been killed, the death toll may rise, it was a remote-controlled bomb." Wazir Khan Nasir, senior police officer in Quetta, told AFP.
Since 2003, Pakistan has been the target of terrorism orchestrated by the very agents who once afforded the state its strategic depth
Shias and other religious minorities are the most targeted in Pakistan
A better option is to plead with the embassies in Islamabad for asylum for the Shia, especially the Hazara, youth
It seems to me that the same conditions exist today in the land of the pure for the Shias to ask for a separate nation that their "qaid e hajjam" had conjured up when he asked for pakhanistan. Separate culture, beliefs, ideals, origins....it is better to be alive in exile than to be splattered on a wall in Pakistan
Indeed Yes. The time is right for the oppressed Shia Mohammaddens of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to take a leaf out the speech of their former sectarian brother and deliver this speech espousing the "Two Muslim Theory"anupmisra wrote:Time for Shias to leave Pakhanistan
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It seems to me that the same conditions exist today in the land of the pure for the Shias to ask for a separate nation that their "qaid e hajjam" had conjured up when he asked for pakhanistan. Separate culture, beliefs, ideals, origins....
: :Love the comments in the above OpEd.arun wrote:Time for Shias to leave Pakhanistan
“We will continue the protest until the terrorist gang is busted”
The founder of Pakistan was a Shia. The country he founded today does not recognize his community, his sect. There was strong support from the Ahmadiyyas for Pakistan. Today they are being hunted like rabbits in Pakistan.arun wrote:Time for Shias to leave Pakhanistan
: :anupmisra wrote:Dozens of houses torched as mob attacks Lahore Christian locality
In 1947-48 when these same smilsum's grand fathers were torching Hindu homes and properties, long time Christians (and recent converts from lower stratas) in LaWhore thought they were safe from such attacks because they were "of the book". Look at them now.
Around 22 Hindu couples get hitched in a mass wedding ceremony ‘Samvikh Vivah’ on Saturday, arranged by Pakistan Hindu Council, with an uncertainty in mind whether their marriage would be properly registered with the concerned authority.
There is currently no law for registration of Hindu weddings in the country. Though a bill was tabled on the floor of National Assembly in 2011 pertaining to the registration of Hindu marriages, which was referred to a committee, but no subsequent development ensued.
Pakistan Hindu Sabah President Dhanomal Maharaj said, “National Database Regularity Authority (NADRA) has devised a mechanism for registration of Hindu couples’ marriages for issuance of computerized national identity card and other documents but the issues of divorce, spouses’ rights, heirs and inheritance are yet to be resolved.”
The issue of Hindu marriage registration surfaced when flood-affected Hindu families, from interior Sindh approached NADRA for Benazir Income Support Programme and were asked for ‘Nikahnama’ (marital certificate). As a countrywide campaign for registration of Hindu weddings began, NADRA directed the flood victims to sign a Performa following the pattern of the ‘Nikahnama’; get it attested and submit at the NADRA office of their local union council, explained Maharaj.
Although the attested Performa resolved the registration and CNIC issue temporarily, the question of married Hindu women’s future was still a nightmare. A large number of Hindus, belonging to different castes have been facing problems due to absence of proper legislation. Many women were unable to have due rights let alone their rightful share in their husband’s property.
Extreme poverty has pushed many Hindu families particularly in interior Sindh to opt for combined marriages. This year the PHC council arranged wedding ceremony and dowry for 22 couples.
Talking to media at the 7th annual combine marriage ceremony, PHC Patron in chief Dr Ramesh Kumar said, combined marriages had become a social custom. Each year political figures participate in the ceremony and announce their cooperation, however, no efforts have yet been made to formulate legislation in this matter.
Renowned social worker Abdul Sattar Edhi was also present at the ceremony. He said such combined marriages were a solution for the weddings of poor couples. He was of the view that poverty was the main obstacle for delayed marriages in the society. On the occasion, Edhi distributed Rs 2,000 each among the brides.
Later, Pandit Ramesh Kumar Acareya administered oath from the couples. All the 22 grooms took oath to respect their spouses, their friends and parents. All the grooms wore white dresses, while brides were attired in traditional dresses. Majority of them were under
the age of 20.
A large number of politicians, social workers and family members of couples attended the ceremony.
Yes, you read it correctly. I am asking all minorities — ethnic, religious, denominational — and any other people who consider themselves a minority of any kind, to please leave Pakistan.
this means that Hindus who have lived in Sindh for millennia
This obviously is just the beginning of the list and very soon, more categories will be added as the above mentioned people are exterminated or simply chased away.
Lived there for millennia? These Hindus are the original sons of the soil before the murderous hordes from "al arapia" showed up with lust and loot on their minds.Pakistan was founded by people who were fearful of a majority they did not trust.
