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| Killing, kidnapping of Sikhs in Pakistan denounced | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 15: The Sikh community of Jammu and Kashmir has strongly appealed to the World leaders including Prime Minister of India to strongly take up the issue of the killing and kidnapping of Sikhs in Pakistan.
History is witness to the fact that the Sikh community strongly believe in coexistence and the right to life of every individual, but in the recent past Pakistan has resorted to the religious persecution of the minorities including Sikhs.
In the past few months several Sikhs have been killed or abducted in many parts of Pakistan and the government of Pakistan has failed to safeguard the life and property of the Sikh community.
On Thursday Paramjeet Singh a hakim from the Sikh community was shot dead by "unidentified gunmen" in Shabqadar, Charsadda area of Dera Ismail Khan of Pakistan, just a month ago two other Sikhs named Anand Singh and Sawrender Singh were abducted from the same area.
The whereabouts of the two was still unknown, and the government of Pakistan and the law enforcing agencies of that country have failed to trace them.
"The government there see to be uninterested to safeguard the interest of their own citizens, the minorities in Pakistan including Sikhs and Hindus live under a fear of being kidnapped or killed," said Jasdeep Singh President of the Guru Manyo Granth Society an amalgam of various Sikh youth organisations of Jammu and Kashmir.
Singh said that he was shocked to find out how girls from the minority community were being kidnapped and forced to marry against their will and the police was behaving like a mute spectator.
"The criminals in Pakistan victimize the victim, by using the anti blasphemy law, anyone who tries to raise their voice against the abduction or killing is framed and booked under anti blasphemy law," Singh said.
The Sikhs said that Pakistan who projects itself as the champion of the rights of minorities in other countries should first make the life of its own citizens safe and secure.
Sikhs in Jammu and Kashmir have appealed to the world community to come forward to pressurize Pakistan to safeguard the life, dignity and human rights of the minority communities in Pakistan.
"The lives of Sikhs and other minorities are not safe in Pakistan; their historic and religious places are being encroached upon by others. These people are the citizens of Pakistan and we strongly condemn the systematic and slow genocide of minority communities of Pakistan," said Paramjeet Singh President of the Sikh Youth Association of Jammu and Kashmir. In January a Sikh Bhagwan Singh was killed in Tangi Charsadda when he was returning home from work, police has so far failed to arrest the killers. |
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