Pakistani Hindus: Letter to PM

Date: 12/06/2011

To,

Dr. Manmohan Singh
Prime Minister of India
New Delhi,

Subject: Demanding justice for Pakistani Hindus.

Dear Sir,

In last 65 years of independence we might have forgot the pain of division of India, but a large number of our brothers and sisters are still facing it till date across the border. Daily several Pakistani Hindu girls are being raped and converted forcefully. They are highly tortured in the name of religious discrimination both by the government & the common Muslims there. They loot & burn their houses, kill people in the name of ransom, pressurize them to accept their religion and they are being highly harassed in all sorts of life. The Pakistani Hindus are our brothers who were however left behind there in Pakistan and are still facing threat to their life & modesty of women there. They are living in only one hope to return to India to have a safe life. 

Pakistani Hindus are coming here in India for the shelter, but the story of their pain is not ending here. Here too they are ignored & harassed by the system in so many ways. There are about 7000 Pakistani Hindus staying here in & around Jodhpur. In our interaction with Shri Hindu Singh ji Sodha and the Pakistani Hindus residing here in Jodhpur, we came to know their pain & how miserable life they are living here too. They can’t have cooking gas facility, no rasan card, no electric connections, no driving license to use any vehicle even, they are confined in a place for 7 years with limitations to earn on their own. They are not able to do any job in nearby village or town even. They can’t go in their relative’s marriage or funeral in nearby cities. There is no system through which they can move to other place by informing the concerned authority. Moreover, they are highly exploited for bribe at all levels of government procedures, mostly by the intelligence, in the name of inquiry again & again they are being harassed like anything.

Sir, they should not be taken as refugees from other nearby countries, as they are coming here to save their life & modesty of their daughters which is in threat in the name of religious discrimination, while the refugees from other countries have no such problems in their own country & they are just illegally trespassing the border, while Pakistani Hindus are coming here through legal process only. We want your government to have a sympathetic approach towards Pakistani Hindus and demand these things –

1) to pressurize Pakistan to protect human rights of Hindus there, both at national & international level.

2) to declare the Refugee Policy at the earliest.

3) to give them refugee status immediately.

4) to relax citizenship charges for these poor people & give them citizenship just like the way 13000 Pakistani Hindus were given in 2005.

 

5) to make VISA process easy & to protect them from the agents who are looting them for bribe in Pakistan at Indian Embassy.

6) to make provisions for them to let them go to nearby cities for work or other purposes by informing the concerning authority.

We hope government will realize their pain by true heart & will take necessary steps to not let them suffer anymore.

Thanks & Regards

 

Chetan Singh Deora

President

Bharat Nirman Sena

Jodhpur
www.bharatnirmansena.org

CC to:

1)      Home Minister of India

2)      Seemant Lok Sanghthan