Thousands of members of the Hindu Community of Pakistan from across the country have reached Islamabad to protest the deaths of 11 Pakistani Hindu migrants families who died mysteriously last month in India’s Jhodpur region.
“We want justice for these eleven Pakistani Hindus who were killed in Jodhpur,” Ramesh Kumar, a lawmaker and Patron-in-Chief of the Pakistan Hindu Council, told reporters. The protesters accuse India’s secret service of poisoning the 11 Hindus. They were found dead at a farmhouse in India’s Jodhpur district in Rajasthan state.
Reports:
Indian media reports suggested the Hindu family members, originally from Pakistan, had taken their own lives. Official Islamabad says New Delhi had not shared any reports of the case.
Rathan Das Kumar:
Rattan Das Kumar is a local leader of the Hindu Community in Pakistan. While talking to The Nation, he said that the Indian secret services killed all the innocent Pakistani Hindus. He added Indian media have been making the wrong claims regarding their alleged suicide. He maintained that Indian government was yet to share details of any reports regarding deaths of these Pakistani Hindus. If they did suicide, then why Indian government is reluctant to show the post mortem reports of deaths to world.
He also claimed that many other Pakistani Hindus would have been killed by Indian extremists but they are not reported. While admiring the SCP, Dr. Kumar said that all the Hindu Community of Pakistan were proud to be Pakistani. Because SCP had termed the Hindus and other religious minorities of Pakistan as non-Muslim Pakistani citizens.
Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri:
“I wish to reiterate that Jodhpur incident is a matter of grave concern for government and Pakistan, particularly the Pakistani Hindu community”. Foreign Ministry spokesman Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri said during his weekly press conference. He urged India to carry out a transparent investigation into the matter and share its findings with Pakistan immediately.
Nuclear-armed rivals Pakistan and India have a history of bitter relations that’s why they have to face such issues against each other.