AMRITSAR – More than 50 Hindu families were migrating to India every month due to failure of Pakistan government in finding a tangible solution to the prevailing acute discontentment among them , said President of Pakistan Hindu Council (PHC) , a representative forum of Hindu community in Pakistan, Ramesh Vankwani while talking to TOI over phone from Karachi on Tuesday.
He said Hindu population especially those who living in Larkana and Sakkhar divisions of Sindh province were scared of forced conversions, kidnapping for ransom and protection money and the Hindu representatives in government had failed to address their issues.
He said PHC had sent their representatives from where majority of Hindus were migrating to India to instill a sense of security among them but they had a limited role to play in absence of government support.
“We have begun a movement on our own but need government support and help of Hindu representatives in government who could assertively take up the issue in Parliament” he said.
In past two week’s time more than 550 Hindu’s have arrived India from Pakistan from Attari land border with majority of them informing media about prevailing religious discrimination, lawlessness, feudalism, fundamentalism , crime against Hindus.
A few of them has even openly announced to stay back in India. Vankwani said in wake of some of the recent incidents of atrocities on Hindu’s even the poor Hindu families had started migrating to India .
“Migrating to India via Kokharpar-Munabao route by train hardly costs Rs 500 which the poor families can also afford and prefer to settle in India than living here under the shadow of fear” he said.
Refusing to identify the persons who were indulged in kidnapping of Hindu’s and the forced conversation of Hindu girls, Vankwani said “Yeh bhukhae log hai , jo paisae kae liyae kuch bhee karate hain” (These are hungry people who would do anything for money).
Meanwhile, Pakistani parliament member from Khyber Pakhtunkhawa Dr. Haresh Chopra said the minority parliamentarians were worried over the reports of migration of Hindu’s from Pakistan.
“The migration is not much as being projected by media which has brought disgrace to Pakistan” he said.
Chopra said he would take up the issue during parliament session and would seek a debate on it so as to prevent exodus of Hindus from Pakistan.
He said he had also taken up the issue with Dr. Paul Bhatti, Advisor to Prime Minister on National Harmony and he had assured look into the issues faced by Hindu’s and check their migration to India. He said Hindu’s were living in Pakistan for past hundreds of years and they should not think of migrating to India with just one or two odd incidents.
