Indore, May 16: Fearing
continuous persecution in their own land, numbers of Sindhis (Hindus
from Sindh province) who fled from Pakistan and settled in various parts
of India have now demanded permanent Indian citizenship following
atrocities on minorities in Pakistan.
Madhya Pradesh’s Sindhi community has come forward for these Pakistan refugees and demanded Centre’s immediate attention.
Shankar Lalwani, senior leader of the
Sindhi community on Tuesday urged the Centre to take immediate steps to
grant citizenship to Hindus who had arrived from Pakistan on religious
visas and did not want to return.
"There are nearly 3,000 refugees
belonging to Sindhi community who have arrived in India on religious
visa following harassment in Pakistan on religious grounds and now don't
want to return," senior Sindhi community leader, Shankar Lalwani said.
"They also include people belonging to Sikh community," he claimed.
The Centre had recently advised the
states and the Union Territories that after following due procedures
they can consider granting Long Term Visa (LTV) to such people. But
Lalwani said such visas were not a permanent solution.
Before that central government ordered
these Sindhis to leave India. Hindu Mahasabha submitted a petition in
court on behalf of around 156 Pakistani Hindu’s seeking their permanat
citizenship.
While hearing Home Ministry presented
affidavit in which they said that those Paksitani Hindus’s who want to
live in India may get Citizenship after that court said that there is no
meaning of petition after this affidavit.
After the orders a group of
representative of Sindhi community led by Shankar Lalwani and Deepchand
Chawla met to SSP A. Sai Manohar. SSP assured Pak Hindu refugees from
Sindh provice to put camps on all the police station of city. In this
camps police will collect the information about those Sindhi’s who came
to India on religious visa and their visas are about to expire.
According to Lalwani Pak refugees will get permanent citizenship of India by proper process.
Meanwhile, BJP has said that it would
soon approach the National Human Rights Commission seeking
constitutional protection for Hindu refugees from erstwhile East
Pakistan and Bangladesh.
"Denial of citizenship to Hindu refugees
is a violation of human rights. We'll file a petition with the National
Human Rights Commission so that such victims of persecution who have
fled to India can secure their rights as per rules of the Constitution",
Party President Nitin Gadkari assured.
BJP also accused the Centre of being a
mute spectator to persecution of Hindus in Pakistan, saying that women
were being abducted and raped to force religious conversion even as the
foreign ministry dismissed it as the "theocratic" state's internal
issue.
Hindus, being minority in Pakistan
suffers from communal violence of Muslim extremists groups. They are
denied basic human rights. Muslim extremists groups often abduct Hindu
girls, forcefully convert them to Islam, threaten Hindu businessmen,
loot their shops. Local police administration has also turned Nelson’s
eyes towards Hindus.
Kishandas (60), who arrived in India
recently on a religious visa for 35 days, but stayed here, revealed,
"The condition of religious minorities in Pakistan is very bad as nobody
listens to our grievances.”
"With great difficulty I managed to come
to India on a religious visa after my grocery shop was looted by two
persons in Jacobabad area. When I protested they shot at me but somehow I
survived and came to India", he said.
It should be noted that News
Bharati has constantly raised the issue of Pakistani Hindu. Earlier News
Bharati highlighted shocking incidents of abduction and forceful
conversion of Hindu girls in Pakistan. News Bharati exposed how Hindu
girl Rinkle Kumari was forcefully converted to Islam and named Faryal
Shah.
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