After the series of abductions of Hindu girls in Pakistan, today the government of India summoned a senior official from Pakistan High Commission to strong protest and share serious concerns about the recent cases of abduction of minor girls belonging to the minority Hindu community of Pakistan.
A senior official of the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi was summoned today to lodge strong protest and share serious concerns about the recent cases of abduction of minor girls belonging to the minority Hindu community of Pakistan: Govt sources pic.twitter.com/vNt2gBp9jZ
— Times of India (@timesofindia) January 17, 2020
This action was taken by Govt of India after two consecutive cases of abductions of minor Hindu girls in Pakistan were reported. According to reports, two Hindu girls named Shanti Meghwad and Sarmi Meghwad were abducted in Pakistan on January 14. The girls are residents of Umar Village, Tharparkar, Sindh, Pakistan.
In another incident, a minor girl, Mehak, also belonging to the minority Hindu community, was abducted from the Jacobabad district of Sindh province in Pakistan on 15 January 2020: Govt sources
— Times of India (@timesofindia) January 17, 2020
On the next day, another Hindu minor girl named Mehak was abducted from the Jacobabad district of Sindh province in the country.
The government of India summoned the Pakistan High Commission official after Shiromani Akali Dal MLA Manjinder Singh Sirsa met officials in External Affairs ministry to talk about the series of atrocities on minority girls in Pakistan. The ministry had assured that they will take up the matter with Pakistan High Commission today itself.
Met up with Joint Sec Deepak Mittal Ji on problems & atrocities faced by minority girls in Pakistan in light of abduction cases recently reported of Shanti Meghwad, Sarmi Meghwad and Mehak Kumari
He has assured us of taking up the matter with Pak High Commission today only @ANI pic.twitter.com/B6xWVcggPl— Manjinder S Sirsa (@mssirsa) January 17, 2020
Before meeting the ministry officials on Friday Manjinder Singh Sirsa had taken to Twitter to once again point out the adversities and inhuman treatment meted out at Hindu and Sikh girls in Pakistan.
Sirsa took to the micro-blogging site to talk about the case of abduction of Mehak. He said that the minor Hindu girl was abducted by a man, Ali Raza, in Quetta city of Balochistan province in Pakistan today. He posted an undated video on Twitter of a man claiming to be the father of the 14-year-old girl, Mehak, who was allegedly kidnapped by a middle-aged man named Raza, while she was returning from school. The accused Raza is said to have two wives and four children.
14 साल की लड़की महक और किडनैपर का नाम अली रजा जिसकी 2 बीवियां और 4 बच्चे पहले से ही है
सुनिये इसके पिता जी को कैसे भरे मन और गले से वहाँ के SP को विनती कर रहे हैं कि बच्ची को ढूँढने
पाक में हिंदू-सिख बच्चियों के साथ हो रही ज़्यादती के खिलाफ भारत को ही कुछ करना होगा @AmitShah Ji pic.twitter.com/jvfZYBvhvZ
— Manjinder S Sirsa (@mssirsa) January 17, 2020
The distressed father of Mehak can be heard saying that he approached the Station House Officer (SHO) and also the Supridentdent of Police (SP) to help him bring back his daughter. The father claims that the authorities asked him to wait for two-three days.
The Akali Dal leader shared details of another incident that took place in Pakistan’s Jacobabad district, where a person named Wajid allegedly kidnapped a 16-year-old Hindu girl on December 16, Thursday.
Talking about these recent horrific incidents, Sirsa said that the minorities in Pakistan expect a lot from India. He furthered that the silent stance of India in this matter will only increase the “torture” on the Sikh and Hindu families in Pakistan. He added that the minorities in Pakistan look up to India to help them and the Citizenship Amendment Act is a “first ray of hope”.
कल भी जैकबाबाद से वाजिद नामक गुंडे ने 16 साल की हिंदू लड़की को अगवा किया
जितना हम चुप रहेंगे- पाकिस्तान में हिंदू सिख परिवार उतना अत्याचार सहेंगे
पाक के अल्पसंख्यकों को भारत से बहुत उम्मीदें है और #CAA उस उम्मीद की पहली किरण@narendramodi Ji @AmitShah Ji @ANI#IndiaSupportsCAA
— Manjinder S Sirsa (@mssirsa) January 17, 2020
Pakistan is notoriously known for its persecution of not only religious minorities but also ethnic minorities within their own country.
Last month, Huma Younus, a 14-year-old Christian girl from Karachi was abducted, forcibly converted to Islam and married off to her captor Abdul Jabbar. According to the reports, Younas was kidnapped on October 10 by three men who waited on the girl’s parents to leave the house before forcibly abducting her. She was reportedly taken to Dera Ghazi Khan, a city in the Punjab province of Pakistan, about 600 Kms from her home.
Earlier, Jagjit Kaur, a Sikh girl was abducted and forcibly converted to Islam in Nankana Sahib which had caused a huge uproar. In another horrific incident, a 13-year-old Pooja Sotahar Kumari, daughter of Fatan Rathore, resident of village Bakhsho Laghari in Hyderabad district’s Hosri Taluka, was kidnapped, forcefully converted and subsequently married off to a man identified as Syed Irshad Shah.
The persecution of minorities in Pakistan and other Islamic countries have continued unabated with rampant cases of abduction and forcible conversion of girls belonging to minority communities to Islam being reported regularly.
The Citizenship Amendment Act introduced by the government seeks to provide relief to such Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi, and Christian minorities who had fled persecution from Islamic countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.
