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| 46 Hindus from Pak not permitted to visit Vaishno Devi Shrine | | BJP stands exposed | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, July 28: No one had ever expected that the BJP-led NDA Government at the Centre would bar 46 Hindus from Pakistan's Karachi from visiting the holy shrine of Maa Vaishno Devi but, sadly, it has happened. As a result, they returned to Pakistan as disillusioned and broken-hearted persons.
Reports suggest that a group of 46 Hindus from Karachi had entered India through Wagah border in Amritsar on July 1, 2018. They came to India to perform pilgrimage at Haridwar. Some went there to immerse the ashes of their deceased relatives, as the Islamic State of Pakistan doesn't allow immersion of ashes in anyPakistani river. They also wanted to pay obeisance at the Holy Shrine of Maa Vaishno Devi but both the Governments of India and Pakistan didn't give permission to them to visit the holy shrine.
"This group of 46 people was not given permission by the Pakistan as well as by Indian Governments to visit Jammu and Kashmir State because the relations between the two neighbouring nations have deterred at present," a report in this regard said.
It is pertinent to mention here that during the Congress-led UPA rule, a number of Hindus from Pakistan visited Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine. As per the Shrine Board record, a group of 52 Pakistani Hindus led by Mahesh Kumar from Shri Jog Mata Mandir, Sindh, had paid obeisance at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine April 8, 2008. In 2009, the number of Hindus visiting Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine was more as compared to that of 2008. A group of 110 pilgrims from the same place under the same Mahesh Kumar visited the shrine on November 6, 2009.
During the BJP-led NDA rule also, a group of three Hindus from Pakistan had visited Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine. It happened on February 24, 2016.
One can understand Pakistan not granting permission to these 46 Hindus to visit holy shrine of Maa Vaishno Devi, but one fails to understand why the Government of India acted like Pakistan government? What had their visit to Maa Vaishno Devi shrine to do with the Indo-Pakistan relations? The Ministry of External Affairs needs to review its stand on those from Pakistan who wish to visit Maa Vaishno Devi shrine to pay their obeisance. |
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