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| India must adopt Pakistan's Hindus | | | KR Phanda
It is common knowledge that Hindus living in Pakistan, as well as in Bangladesh, are constantly persecuted. However, it is to the credit of the Press in Pakistan that it does once in a while report events which are clearly barbaric and implicate the majority community there. A recent study on the condition of Dalit Hindus in the Sindh province of Pakistan has revealed that they are being treated as second class citizens. The study says that the abduction of young Dalit women is frequent and often reported in regional newspapers. These women are kidnapped or lured into marriage and then sexually exploited before being abandoned.
Not long ago, the Pakistani newspaper Dawn had reported a case in which two sisters were kidnapped, converted to Islam and forced into marriage. Initially the police had refused to register an FIR. After a few days the parents of the girls received two identical affidavits stating that they had voluntarily converted to Islam and had married Muslims out of their own free will. When the parents were permitted to meet the girls at a neutral place, the sisters were found to be fully covered in burqas and their blood-shot eyes told it all.
The day is not far off when there will be no Hindus left in Pakistan. Who is to be blamed for their misery? The Government of India, under the prime ministership of Jawaharlal Nehru, had entered into the Nehru-Liaquat pact in 1950 through which an understanding was reached to protect the minority communities in the two countries. The Nehru Government fulfilled its part of the agreement but did not care as to what happened to the Hindus in Pakistan. Today the result is there for all of us to see.
The only way to avert the extinction of Hindus in Pakistan is to unilaterally transfer them to India. Hindus in Pakistan are suffering primarily because of the fraud that was perpetrated by Nehru. What is more sickening is the attitude of the Hindu elite which migrated to India from Sindh and Lahore. These people have never raised the issue of the persecution of their co-religionists. Their behaviour deserves condemnation, particularly when one sees them supporting the demands of those very Muslims who were instrumental in them being thrown out of their ancestral homes. |
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