There is no end of woes for Hindus in Pakistan. The majority Muslim community attacks the minority Hindu community with impunity on any trivial pretext. The Islamic Republic of Pakistan is even failing to take care of its less than 2% Hindu population and remains hand in glove with the Talibani agenda of forcing out the minorities from Pakistan. The society is so intolerant that it cannot allow even a tiny population of Hindus to live in peace. As reported by Times of India several members of the minority Hindu community were attacked and forced out of their homes in Pakistan's southern Sindh province after a boy drank water from a facility outside a mosque. The Hindus who were forced out of their homes have taken refuge in a cattle pen. One of the injured, Heera, said about 400 Hindu families are being threatened to vacate the area. "Our people are even scared of going out of their houses. We are also putting up with living in the filthy (cattle) pen because we cannot go home for fear of being killed," said Heera, who too is living in a cattle shed.
Not far back, the fatwa imposing Jazia on non-Muslims in Pakistan speaks volumes of the atrocities being committed on Hindus and Sikhs by the Islamic fanatics to which the government of Pakistan remains a mute spectator. It was in the wake of the Pakistan parliament passing the Sharia law for Malakand Division of the Northwestern Frontier Province on April 13 that the Taliban imposed jaziya (an Islamic tax to non-Muslims) on the Sikh community (a very tiny religious minority in Pakistan) demanding Rs 50 million. In the face of the Taliban's threat, many Sikh families, of the Feroze Khel area of Merozai in Lower Orakzai Agency, fled to the nearby areas. Pakistan which has Hindu population at around meager 1.8% (pre-partition Hindu population: around 25%) appears bent upon uprooting this minuscule minority from its soil forcing them to either flee or convert. In Bangladesh too, the situation is not too different, the Hindu population has declined from around 30% in 1947 to around 9% now and the entire process of this demographic decline may be attributed to forced conversion under inhuman atrocities and threat of life, dignity and livelihood.
Continuing from last four years, around 5,000 Hindus have been reported to have come to India seeking refuge. In 2006, 392, in 2007, 880, in 2008, 1,240 and so far in 2009, 1000 Hindus have crossed border to India from Pakistan. The continuing attack may see more Hindus seeking refuge in India. It may be noted that till date no Human Rights group has taken up the issue neither the Government of India has tried to raise the issue in its bilateral talks with Pakistan. The least is expected of the Indian media and intelligentsia which are busy singing paeans of ‘secularism' and has no time to spare for the unfortunate Hindus of Pakistan.
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Dr. Shiv Shakti
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