When Pakistan came into existence in 1947, 24 per cent of the
population were Hindus. And now look at the percentage of Hindus in Pakistan,
just below two per cent. What happened to the rest?
by Bharati Krishna
The plight of Hindus
living in Pakistan and Bangladesh is not an issue to the world, in particular
India. They have been ruthlessly killed or converted to Islam in these
religious nations. The remaining Hindu population in these countries have no
human rights and they are considered as second-class citizens. Since the
formation of these two Islamic republics, the Hindus living there have been
terrorized and subjected to forcible conversions.
When Pakistan came
into existence in 1947, 24 per cent of the population were Hindus. And now look
at the percentage of Hindus in Pakistan, just below two per cent. What happened
to the rest? Majority of them have been mercilessly killed by the Islamic fanatics
and the rest forcibly converted to Islam.
The same happened in
the case of Bangladeshi Hindus. The percentage of Hindu population in
Bangladesh in 1947 (then East Pakistan) was numbered at 31. But with course of
time it has been declined and stationed at nine per cent now. Massive religious
conversion and ruthless murders of the Hindus were the reasons for this
decline.
When the world asks
about the human rights violations of many other groups in various countries, it
never asks what happened to those Hindus in Pakistan. The so-called secular
government of India have not bothered about the serious issue so far.
During the period
1970-1971 over two million Hindus are reported to have been killed in East
Pakistan, now known as Bangladesh. Activists point out that numerous Hindu
women were kidnapped and raped during this period.
“Hindus suffer
constant threats to their lives, security and property in Pakistan and
Bangladesh. Many Hindu temples have been despoiled and wiped out there. There
are regular reports of illegal encroachments on Hindu temples and lands,
looting of Hindu property, discrimination, persecution, molestation and
abduction of Hindu girls,” says a Muslim activist who fights against the
atrocities of Hindus in Pakistan.
Dr Sabyasachi
Ghosh-Dastidar in his book, Empire’s Last Casualty: Indian Subcontinent’s
vanishing Hindu & other Minorities, points out that over three million
Hindus have been killed in the process of Islamisation in the area now known as
Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan) since India was partitioned in 1947. This
loss of three million lives remains suppressed from the world.
The sad thing is
that, the so-called secular media which cry for all unwanted things have been
silent spectators of this ethnic cleansing. And the Indian government also does
nothing regarding this even though the country has the moral responsibility to
protect the Hindus. Actually denying human rights to Hindus infringes UN
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948, but what to do when these rights
are reserved only for a few.
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