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Impossible for Hindus to live in intolerant Muslim Pakistan: Editorial | | An editorial in a Pakistani daily has said it is the duty of the Govt to see the minority communities are not pushed so far down in the scale of well-being that its youths find it more tolerable to convert. Some people in the establishment in Pakistan will probably smile triumphantly at the news that "dozens of Pakistani Hindu pilgrims who reached the Indian state of Rajasthan on September 9, say they don't intend to return to their country", the editorial in The Express Tribune said. The establishment will rebuke the government for not placing an embargo on their movement out of Pakistan and will probably succeed in getting it to stop
any families from the Hindu community from going out of the country in future,
it said. The Hindus visiting India mostly said that they would come back. No sane
person can expect a persecuted and scared community to tell the truth about what
they will do next. Once in Rajasthan in India , the stricken community was more
outspoken and expressed their unhappiness about the abnormal trend in Pakistan
of marrying Hindu girls after making them run away from their parental homes,
it added. In Rajasthan, there were 'social workers' aplenty, who took care of
the Hindus as they arrived. The Samenath Lok Sangathan (SLS) wants India to give
them the country's nationality and help them settle in India and not go back to
Pakistan where, by Pakistanis' own admission, religious extremism is rampant to
an extent that even fellow Muslims are not safe. This kind of a thing has happened
to thousands of Christians, Bahais, Ismailis, etc, now settled in the West, it
further said. The BBC quoted the Hindus, as saying: "We are feeling insecure because
of the alarming rise in Islamic extremism in Pakistan . We would rather die here
(in India ) than go back to Pakistan ." The question is not whether there is freedom
of religion in Pakistan ; it is whether a community feels safe about preserving
their religion, which is protected under the law and under sharia. What the Hindu
community is pointing to is the changed environment in Pakistan , wherein conversion
to Islam has picked up, the editorial stated. One factor is the condition of life
which has plummeted for the non-Muslims; the other is the increased victimisation
of them under various forms of blasphemy. The other irony is that there is no
real freedom of religion: Muslims embracing Hinduism would be immediately killed,
it concluded.
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