12-17-2005, 09:19 PM
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Saturday, December 17, 2005
KR Phanda
It is a matter of shame for India and particularly for those Hindu elites who migrated from Sindh in West Pakistan and East Bengal in the then East Pakistan that they continue to maintain complete silence over the persecution of Hindus taking place in these countries.
Two recent articles by Irfan Hussain in the Dawn, a respected Pakistan newspaper, and later carried by the Indian press, have reported that a few weeks ago three girls aged 21, 19 and 17 years belonging to a Hindu family in a predominantly Muslim locality in Karachi suddenly went missing. It was a clear case of abduction by Muslims.
The police initially refused to register the case but had to do it after pressure was put on the concerned DSP by political organisations. Shortly thereafter, the parents of the girls received three identical affidavits signed by the girls that they had voluntarily converted to Islam.
When the court allowed the parents to meet their daughters, they were shocked to see their daughters fully clad in burqas. This is not the first incident of forced conversion of Hindu girls and women to Islam in Sindh Province of Pakistan.
Earlier, in an article entitled, "It is not easy being a Pak minority" (The Dawn, July 2003), Hafizur Rahman wrote, "The abduction of Hindu girls in Sindh is going on all the time. When a hue and cry is raised <span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>the girl is made to state in a court of law that she went away on own and married to a Muslim of her choice and embraced Islam of her own accord."</span>
The tenets of Islam as contained in the Quran and Prophet's Sunnah preach the use of violence against non-Muslims. Intolerance of kafirs, their enslavement, abduction of their women and children and murder are part and parcel of Islamic theology.
Few years ago, the Dawn reported some Muslim zealots fed on false rumours behaved like Huns and laid waste Shantinagar, a Christian village in Southern Punjab. It was also reported that till 1994 Coptic Christians living in Egypt had to take the permission of the Egyptian President to repair their churches.
The Union and State Governments in India, however, are doling out crores of rupees to maintain masjids and dargahs in the country. Every year hundreds of Muslims come from Pakistan to pay their homage to Muslim saints buried in India.
On the contrary, not a single Hindu mandir, which existed before 1947, now survives in Pakistan. True to their religion of Islam, Muslims are forcing Hindus still left in Pakistan to either convert to Islam or face death.
The Cabinet Mission that visited India in 1946 had specifically asked Jinnah as to what would be the fate of minorities left behind in Pakistan and Hindustan after 1947. Jinnah's response was candid enough: "The minorities left behind after the migration of population between Hindustan and Pakistan would be the responsibility of the respective Governments."
Going by our attitude in the last 50 years, it is too much to expect that India would ever take up their cause. The time is not far off when hardly any Hindu would be left in Pakistan. It is ironic that the Hindu leadership to remain in power have taken actions which are totally against the interests of the Hindus in the country.
How else would one explain the setting up of four more committees and commissions by the UPA Government to look into the problems of Muslims, when there already exists a National Commission for Minorities. Does it not mean that the committees set up under Government resolution have superseded the functions of a body already constituted by an act of Parliament?
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Saturday, December 17, 2005
KR Phanda
It is a matter of shame for India and particularly for those Hindu elites who migrated from Sindh in West Pakistan and East Bengal in the then East Pakistan that they continue to maintain complete silence over the persecution of Hindus taking place in these countries.
Two recent articles by Irfan Hussain in the Dawn, a respected Pakistan newspaper, and later carried by the Indian press, have reported that a few weeks ago three girls aged 21, 19 and 17 years belonging to a Hindu family in a predominantly Muslim locality in Karachi suddenly went missing. It was a clear case of abduction by Muslims.
The police initially refused to register the case but had to do it after pressure was put on the concerned DSP by political organisations. Shortly thereafter, the parents of the girls received three identical affidavits signed by the girls that they had voluntarily converted to Islam.
When the court allowed the parents to meet their daughters, they were shocked to see their daughters fully clad in burqas. This is not the first incident of forced conversion of Hindu girls and women to Islam in Sindh Province of Pakistan.
Earlier, in an article entitled, "It is not easy being a Pak minority" (The Dawn, July 2003), Hafizur Rahman wrote, "The abduction of Hindu girls in Sindh is going on all the time. When a hue and cry is raised <span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>the girl is made to state in a court of law that she went away on own and married to a Muslim of her choice and embraced Islam of her own accord."</span>
The tenets of Islam as contained in the Quran and Prophet's Sunnah preach the use of violence against non-Muslims. Intolerance of kafirs, their enslavement, abduction of their women and children and murder are part and parcel of Islamic theology.
Few years ago, the Dawn reported some Muslim zealots fed on false rumours behaved like Huns and laid waste Shantinagar, a Christian village in Southern Punjab. It was also reported that till 1994 Coptic Christians living in Egypt had to take the permission of the Egyptian President to repair their churches.
The Union and State Governments in India, however, are doling out crores of rupees to maintain masjids and dargahs in the country. Every year hundreds of Muslims come from Pakistan to pay their homage to Muslim saints buried in India.
On the contrary, not a single Hindu mandir, which existed before 1947, now survives in Pakistan. True to their religion of Islam, Muslims are forcing Hindus still left in Pakistan to either convert to Islam or face death.
The Cabinet Mission that visited India in 1946 had specifically asked Jinnah as to what would be the fate of minorities left behind in Pakistan and Hindustan after 1947. Jinnah's response was candid enough: "The minorities left behind after the migration of population between Hindustan and Pakistan would be the responsibility of the respective Governments."
Going by our attitude in the last 50 years, it is too much to expect that India would ever take up their cause. The time is not far off when hardly any Hindu would be left in Pakistan. It is ironic that the Hindu leadership to remain in power have taken actions which are totally against the interests of the Hindus in the country.
How else would one explain the setting up of four more committees and commissions by the UPA Government to look into the problems of Muslims, when there already exists a National Commission for Minorities. Does it not mean that the committees set up under Government resolution have superseded the functions of a body already constituted by an act of Parliament?
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