Another attack on minorities in Pak! Hindu family tortured, held hostage for fetching water from Punjab's mosque

Islamabad, September 20:  In yet another horrifying attack on the minority community in Pakistan, a Hindu family was thrashed and held hostage for fetching water from a mosque in Pakistan’s Punjab province.

 

According to the reports, local residents of the Basti Kahoor Khan in Rahim Yar Khan district tortured a farm worker's family and held them hostage, for allegedly "violating the sanctity" of the religious place.

 

 

The incident took place a few days back when Alam Ram Bheel was picking raw cotton along with his other family members, including his wife, in a field. When the family went outside a nearby mosque to get drinking water from a tap, some locals beat them up.

 

Later when the family was returning home after unloading the picked cotton, the Pakistani citizens held them hostage, at their outhouse and punished the family for entering into the mosque premises, otherwise a public place, and for collecting water from the Islamic religious premises.

 

 

More surprisingly when the family went to the Airport police station to file the police complaint, the police refused to register a case as the attackers were related to a local Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf parliamentarian. PTI’s south Punjab minority wing secretary-general Yodhister Chohan also dusted his hands off the incident saying he preferred to stay away due to the influence of a ruling party MP.

 

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However, the police finally registered a case under sections 506, 154, 379, 148, and 149 of the Pakistan Penal Code. Deputy Commissioner Dr. Khuram Shehzad said he would first meet the elders of the Hindu community on Monday before taking any action.

The minority Hindu community with a population of just 75 lakhs in Pakistan is subjected to regular persecution. In the month of August, an eight-year-old Hindu boy was booked under charges of blasphemy. He was charged for the crime after he was accused to have urinated on the carpet of a Madarsa.

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