Plight of minorities in Pak! Another Hindu girl shot dead in Pakistan following failed abduction attempt

Atrocities against Pakistan's minority Hindu community are intensifying in our neighbouring country. In a new case that has come to the fore, an 18-year-old Hindu girl, Pooja Oad, was shot dead in Rohi, Pakistan's Sindh province, after she resisted attempts to abduct her.

 

 

She was killed heinously by the attackers in the middle of the street after she put up resistance to the attackers. This was the second attempt at abducting the girl after she escaped the first attempt safely. Pakistani officials have not released any statement regarding this brutal attack.

 

BJP leader Manjinder Singh Sirsa raised the issue, saying, "Such incidents were common in Pakistan and claimed that lawlessness prevailed in the country."

 

 

She is the latest victim of the religious extremists who every year abduct and forcefully convert several women belonging to minority communities, especially Hindus, in Sindh, Pakistan.

 

According to the People's Commission for Minorities' Rights and the Centre for Social Justice, 156 incidents of forced conversions took place between 2013 and 2019. Despite such incidents becoming common throughout the country, the Pakistani government has turned blind towards minorities and not taken necessary actions over the rising crimes against Hindus.

 

The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics reports the overall population of the Hindu community in Pakistan at 1.60 per cent, and 6.51 per cent in Sindh respectively.

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