New Delhi: India recently summoned a senior diplomat from the Pakistani high commission to lodge a “strong protest” over attacks on members of the Sikh community over the last three months in two cities.
As per official sources, four such incidents have taken place between April and June 2023 and India has taken serious note of these incidents.
“Following the recent attacks on Sikh community members in Pakistan, India summoned a senior diplomat of the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi and lodged a strong protest against these incidents,” they said.
India apparently stated that investigation reports of the attacks on members of the Sikh community should be shared. “It has also been conveyed that Pakistan should ensure the safety and security of its minorities, who live in constant fear of religious persecution”.
On March 31, a 35-year-old Sikh shopkeeper was killed in the outskirts of Peshawar by an assailant inside his shop.
In April, a 50-year-old Sikh man who was on his morning walk in Lahore’s Nawab Town neighbourhood was shot by gunmen on a motorcycle.
In the same month, two more Sikh men were shot and killed in Peshawar. Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had claimed that “Pakistan’s enemies” were responsible for the incident and vowed to “eradicate them from the face of the earth”, Dawn newspaper had reported.
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) had said in May that that was “not the first time that the Sikh community in KP has been targeted and we demand that the KP police identify and arrest the perpetrators promptly”.
In the latest incident, another Sikh shopkeeper was shot down by unknown men in Peshawar on June 25. This was after an attack on another Sikh, but who managed to survive with minor injuries.
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan demanded a “swift investigation” into the incident.
Aggressive_Bed_9774 on June 29th, 2023 at 10:56 UTC »
meanwhile khalistanis in Canada aren't saying anything , perhaps they can't bite the hand that's feeds them
LibganduHunter on June 29th, 2023 at 08:21 UTC »
Why doesn't India summon the Pakistani diplomats over the mass forced conversion, murder and oppression of basic human rights of Hindu women particularly from Sindh where every other day a Hindu woman is kidnapped, raped and forcefully converted to Islam and sometimes murdered too.
Do they not care about them?
crestnest on June 29th, 2023 at 08:09 UTC »
SS: India recently summoned a senior diplomat from the Pakistani high commission to lodge a “strong protest” over attacks on members of the Sikh community over the last three months in two cities.
As per official sources, four such incidents have taken place between April and June 2023 and India has taken serious note of these incidents.
“Following the recent attacks on Sikh community members in Pakistan, India summoned a senior diplomat of the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi and lodged a strong protest against these incidents