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Harassed Hindus flee Pakistan
Friday August 10, 2012 03:06:15 PM,
IANS
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Islamabad:
Hindus are fleeing Pakistan after their shops were looted, houses
raided and women were converted to Islam, a media report said.
Rehman Malik, advisor to Pakistani prime minister on interior
affairs, however, said that visas being issued to 250 Hindu
families by the Indian high commission was a conspiracy, reported
Dawn.
Malik was responding to a query on migration of Hindu families to
India from Sindh and Balochistan after complaining that their
shops had been looted, houses raided and women forced to embrace
Islam.
Rehman Malik said in Lahore that the government had stopped the
Hindus of Jacobabad from leaving for India.
They would be allowed to leave after complete verification.
"The Indian high commission should say why it has issued visas to
them," he was quoted as saying.
The government has decided to beef up security for religious
minorities following large-scale migration of Hindu families to
India.
Seven Hindu families comprising 90 men, women and children from
Jacobabad left for India Wednesday night, citing lack of safety
and security in Sindh.
They left by train and were seen off by relatives and a large
number of people of the community at the Jacobabad railway
station. After reaching Lahore, they intended to enter India at
the Wagah border.
The move comes just six months after 52 Hindu families from the
same area migrated to India.
Jacobabad police official Muhammad Younus Chandio maintained that
complete security was being provided to the community and said the
families were not migrating but were going to India to perform
religious rites and would return soon.
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