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Tight-lipped Pakistani Hindus enter India, say
will return
Friday August 10, 2012 11:48:32 PM,
IANS
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Attari
(Punjab): Tight-lipped about their future, 119
Pakistani Hindus arrived in India Friday evening after promising
authorities in Pakistan that they will return on completing their
pilgrimage.
The first batch 119 from nearly 250 Pakistani Hindu pilgrims
crossed the Wagah-Attari land border joint check post between both
countries after 4 p.m.
"We have come here on pilgrimage. Though things are not easy for
us (in Pakistan), we will return after our visit," one of the
pilgrims told media at the Attari check post.
Speaking off the record to the media, most of the visitors said
they were facing a difficult life in Pakistan, with many of them
being forced to convert to Islam. They said that given an option,
they would like to stay back in India.
The Hindus, men and women, were allowed to continue their journey
to India by Pakistani authorities after they gave the commitment
that they would return to Pakistan.
A section of media in Pakistan had speculated that the Hindus had
no intention of returning to Pakistan because of alleged
harassment by Islamists.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik went public Thursday night alleging
a "conspiracy" against Pakistan and demanded to know why the
Indian high commission in the Pakistani capital had issued so many
visas to Hindus.
He refused to let the Hindus proceed beyond Jacobabad (Sindh)
unless he was satisfied they would not take asylum in India citing
religious persecution -- as some Pakistani Hindus had done
earlier.
Eventually, after some hours, the Hindus were allowed to go after
their representatives pledged the families would return to
Pakistan.
"After the interior ministry orders, the Hindu families were kept
waiting on the (railway) platform. They were perplexed over not
being allowed to cross the border despite having (Indian) visas,"
the daily Dawn reported Friday.
Media reports earlier said that the Hindus had no plans to return
from India following allegations that their shops and houses were
looted and their women forcibly converted to Islam.
One report said that seven Hindu families comprising 90 men, women
and children from Jacobabad left for India Wednesday night, citing
lack of safety and security in Sindh province.
They left by train and were seen off by relatives and a large
number of Hindus at the Jacobabad railway station.
Their move came six months after 52 Hindu families from the same
area migrated to India.
Jacobabad police official Muhammad Younus Chandio said security
was being provided to Hindus and that the families were not
migrating but going to India to perform religious rites.
About 10 families of Pakistani Hindus are already camping in
Amritsar, 30 km from here, and are seeking political asylum in
India.
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