[Reader-list] Hindu families in Pakistan feel scared, India grants Visa

[yasir ~يا سر]

apart from the hindus, 400,00 - 700,000 people have also left the area
during the last few months, so. they are other humans in the area.
best

yasir

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Kshmendra Kaul <kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Versions of the news item reproduced below (from PunjabNewsline) have also
> appeared in:
>
> - ZEENEWS "Pak Hindu families seekl India citizenship"
>      http://international.zeenews.com/inner1.asp?aid=203968&sid=HEL
>
> - DAWN "Fata’s 35 Hindus migrate to India"
>
> http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/Dawn%20Content%20Library/dawn/news/pakistan/fatas-35-hindus-migrate-to-india--bi
>
> Kshmendra
>
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> "Hindu families in Pakistan feel scared, India grants Visa"
> JAGMOHAN SINGH
> Saturday, 07 March 2009
>
> AMRITSAR: Indian Government has granted one year visa to 35 Hindu migrants
> from Pakistan who faced threat to their lives in Pakistan, particularly in
> tribal areas. The group including 16 men, 16 females and three children had
> crossed over to india few days back.
>
> The Pak Hindus narrated their woes to Indian authorities. They carried the
> nightmare, experienced Immediately after they went to Delhi to get extension
> in visa and permission to stay in Amritsar. All the families arrived in
> Amritsar on Saturday after obtaining visa for one year.
>
> Jagdish Sharma resident of tribal area near Peshawar in Pakistan said, “We
> were living in Pakistan under severe fear psychosis due to the domination of
> strong group of Taliban people who are running parallel Government. In such
> circumstances, Hindus and Sikh families were not safe, especially our female
> members. We preferred to migrate in India, at least here in India we can
> breathe out with peace and calm mind since our families are safe in India”.
>
> Adding further he said, “We strongly urge the Government of India to allow
> us stay here in India permanently, since we don’t want to go back in the
> hellish atmosphere where there is no life security”.
>
> Jagdish Sharma said, “All the 35 members of four Hindu families would never
> prefer to return to Pakistan. Now we have intention to settle here
> permanently and expect that Government of India would never disappoint the
> Pakistan based Hindus who arrived here after being plundered in Pakistan”.
>
> Hardwari Lal resident of Orkzai nearly 180 kilometers from Peshawar said,
> “I was running my grocery shop there which was forcibly took over by the
> fundamentalist people who also took possession of our entire property. Even
> Sikh Gurdwara (Sikh shrine) as well as Hindu Temples were not safe, since
> none of the priest of respective religions dare to stay there for required
> necessary ritual daily prayers. Pakistan Government has appointed local
> executive magistrates as a care taker for religious shrines in the tribal
> area of Pakistan”.
>
> Hardwari said, “We strongly urge the Government of India to do the needful
> for us so that we could settle down in India and could reestablish our
> business here as there is no chance for us to go back to Pakistan”.
>
> Rekha a female migrant from Peshawar said, “ We have heaved sigh of relief
> while reaching on Indian territory, since every morning we were observing
> close encounter to death as life is highly unsecured. My parents were always
> worried about me and my brothers due to domination of fundamentalist people.
> Being a girl I Never went out of my house and remained confined with in the
> four walls of our house. I never got privilege to obtain education, since
> girls were not allowed to attend school in the tribal area of Pakistan”.
>
> Adding further Rekha said, “There was no life in the tribal area of
> Pakistan, as there was no liberty for   women to move out, if gets chance
> only in Burqa (clad) while covering face and body with black gown. In
> Pakistan Taliban considers Hindu community very meek and feeble. Numerous
> Hindu families still were languishing in the tribal area of Pakistan as
> unable to get visa for India which they were facing acute hardship. Since
> for visa everybody has to appear before the Indian High Commission and for
> women it is difficult to come out from house to move out from the tribal
> area”, she quipped.
>
> http://www.punjabnewsline.com/content/view/15562/40/
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