Staff Reporter
Islamabad
The killing of 11 Pakistani Hindus in India’s Jodhpur has exposed New Delhi’s Citizenship Amendment Act, patron-in-chief of the Pakistan Hindu Council Dr Ramesh Kumar said on Sunday.
The citizenship act offers nationality to the region’s minorities, excluding Muslims.
“This [killing] raises the question whether it was a real act to grant amnesty or one to fool people,” he said, addressing a press conference in Islamabad.
Eleven Pakistani Hindus, including children, were found dead in mysterious circumstances in village Lodta, Haridasot, district Jodhpur, in the Indian state of Rajasthan, on August 9, 2019, after having been living there for eight years.
A large number of Hindus from across the country have staged a sit-in at the Indian High Commission in Islamabad to protest the incident. Members of the Hindu community, led by Kumar, reached the federal capital from Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and other parts of the country in a caravan to protested against the killings. They have also called upon the international community to provide them justice. Kumar said that he would soon move the International Court of Justice against India’s crime of killing the Hindu family.
Speaking of India’s injustice to Muslims, he said that he was invited to attend the groundbreaking of the Ayodhya Mandir.
“I declined the offer and said that I too worship Ram but I have never heard about a place of Allah’s worship being razed to the ground and a place for Ram’s worship being built on top.” He said that on the one hand the Supreme Court of Pakistan is “fighting for the rights of minorities in the country” and on the other hand, the supreme court in India has issued a judgment to build a temple on top of a mosque site.