Sikhs and Hindus attacked in Pakistan

[Premi]

 

 

 

 

 

[Premi]

https://www.opindia.com/2023/01/pakistan-muslims-hackle-abuse-sikh-in-jacobabad-threaten-to-kill/

Pakistan: Sikh family abused, threatened with murder by local Muslims in Jacobabad, Sindh

 

In the video, Singh told that the incident took place when he was picking up his daughters from school. He was hackled and threatened to kill. The attackers also threatened to kill his daughters. Singh added that his daughters were afraid and refused to go to school.

 

 

31 January, 2023

OpIndia Staff

Sikh man in Pakistan alleged he was attacked and harassed by Muslims (Image: SS from video/NW Flags)

 

On January 30, Narain Das Bheel, Founder and Chief Organiser of the Hindu Organization of Sindh published a video on the social media platform Twitter where Sikhs of Jacobabad in Sindh, Pakistan could be heard narrating the incidents of atrocities they are facing. The Sikh individual identified as Harish Singh was allegedly abused and hackled by the Muslim community.

 

In the video, Singh told that the incident took place when he was picking up his daughters from school. He was hackled and threatened to kill. The attackers also threatened to kill his daughters. Singh added that his daughters were afraid and refused to go to school.

Singh urged the locals to stand up for him and save him from the atrocities. He said, “I am pleading with the locals of Jacobabad with folded hands that on January 26 when I was coming back after picking up my daughters, there was a lot of crowd on the road. Bike-borne Muslims abused and threatened to kill me and my daughters. They hit my scooter. I suffered an injury in my leg. My daughters are worried. They are refusing to go to school.” He added that the Sikh community living in the area gave respect and votes to the Muslim leaders. He appealed to them and the local community to support him and save his family. Singh further added, “One fish should not be allowed to spoil the pond.”

Atrocities against Sikhs in Pakistan

Islamic extremists in Pakistan have made it extremely difficult for minorities to sustain a normal life. There have been several reports of abductions, forced conversions and killings of Sikhs along with other minorities in the country. OpIndia reported several incidents where Sikh women and young girls were abducted and converted to Islam.

Notably, in 2017, Sikhs were excluded from the census in Pakistan. This was the first time the minority group was not included in the census. The official number of Sikhs in the country is not available. However, as per an India Today report from February 2022, the population of Sikhs have come down to around 8,000 in 2022 compared to 40,000 in 2002. In just two decades, there has been around 80 per cent fall in the population of Sikhs in the country.

In August 2021, it was reported that Sikhs in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa protested as Islamists forcibly converted a female Sikh teacher and perform her nikah. A young female teacher from the Sikh community was allegedly kidnapped on Saturday, and on the next day, her family was informed that the young girl is now married to a Muslim person. There is deep resentment in the Sikh community due to this incident.

Dina Kaur, a Sikh teacher was kidnapped on August 21, 2022. On the next day, her family members knew about the forced marriage and subsequent conversion. The family reached the police station where nobody cared to register their complaint. According to the family members, the local police have not registered any FIR and have asked the Sikhs to be silent on this issue.

In December 2022, The Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) of Pakistan shut down Gurdwara Shaheed Bhai Taru Singh in Lahore for worship, declaring that it is a mosque. Pakistan’s ETPB, together with certain fundamental extremists, locked down the Gurdwara, infuriating the Sikh community. the controversy over the existence of the Gurdwara situated in Lahore has been long-running now. The Gurdwara was constructed in the place where Sikh fighter Bhai Taru Singh was executed in 1745 by the Mughals. The Gurdwara was built on the grounds where the Shaheed Ganj Mosque existed earlier. This has led to the dispute that continues even today.

[dalsingh101]

Things likely to get worse there:

 

[Sajjan_Thug]

1 hour ago, dalsingh101 said:

Things likely to get worse there:

Have Nihangs been informed of these incidents?  Have they sent a Dal to help these people?

Buddha Dal is chakarvarti

Buddha Dal, Panjva Takht, Chakarvarti, Chalda Vahir, Vishav, 

[dalsingh101]

10 minutes ago, Sajjan_Thug said:

Have Nihangs been informed of these incidents?  Have they sent a Dal to help these people?

Buddha Dal is chakarvarti

Buddha Dal, Panjva Takht, Chakarvarti, Chalda Vahir, Vishav, 

I get your sarcasm. It doesn't solve anything though. What we can take from it though, is that hordes of our people live in delusion. To my mind, the only solution is a long term one, when those of us in the know raise awareness amongst the hordes until a cultural/mentality shift occurs. Penduism and its associated way of thinking doesn't help at all.  

[HSD]

Nightmare country. 

[GurjantGnostic]

On 2/11/2023 at 3:58 AM, dalsingh101 said:

I get your sarcasm. It doesn't solve anything though. What we can take from it though, is that hordes of our people live in delusion. To my mind, the only solution is a long term one, when those of us in the know raise awareness amongst the hordes until a cultural/mentality shift occurs. Penduism and its associated way of thinking doesn't help at all.  

Other side of that coin, are we supporting the dals so they could help in cases like this? We have huge amounts of money floating around, it just never floats to training or protecting the Paanth. I'd do it for free but I'm working all the time. Probably not the only nihang stuck in that boat. 

[Premi]

 

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/amritsar/pak-sikhs-embracing-islam-face-tough-time/articleshow/97899818.cms

Pakistan Sikhs embracing Islam face tough time

YUDHVIR RANA / TNN / Updated: Feb 14, 2023, 13:14 IST

 

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After Christians, Ahmadiyyas and Hindus, the Sikhs are the fourth largest minority in Pakistan converting to Islam. However, these new Muslims are afraid of their own people as they refuse to cooperate with them for discarding their birth religion.

These people are especially finding it difficult to fulfill formalities to get government documents on their new Muslim identities.
Muhammad Abdul Waris, general secretary, Huqooq-un-Naas Welfare Foundation, a Pakistan-based organisation, said impressed with its teachings, people from the minority communities embrace Islam. “In Pakistan, Hindus and Sikhs come at No. 3 and 4 respectively, while Christians and Ahmadiyyas stand at No. 1 and 2 as far as embracing Islam is concerned,” said Waris.
The other minority communities in Pakistan include Kalash, Buddhists, Bahai, Parsis and Zikris.

 

The Huqooq-un-Nass strives to educate, develop and resolve social, cultural and political issues of those who accept Islam as a religion, said Muhammad Abdul Waris, who was Waris Masih before embracing Islam.
On the reports of forcible conversions in Pakistan, Waris vehemently denied the allegations. He said this was a wrong presumption. Waris claimed that the news reports published in this regard were incorrect and biased.
Most of these cases were of runaway marriages, which were given altogether a different colour, and given negative coverage in the media, he reasoned.
“When I embraced Islam, my family members said I was forcibly converted. But I wonder, I myself didn’t know that I was being forced to embrace Islam,” he said sarcastically.

Waris, who was born as Christian, embraced Islam in 2006. He opined that the new Muslims faced various issues, including the threat from their own family members when they convert.
When asked why Sikhs, Hindus, and Christians were converting to Islam, he said Islam was the only faith that bestows peace, tranquility, direction, and discipline, which other religions lack and that’s why the people of minority religions were embracing it.