ISLAMABAD (AP) – Pakistan’s Hindu minority met Thursday night in Islamabad, in a brief confrontation with police, to protest the deaths of 11 members of a circle of relatives of Hindu immigrants who died in India last month in mysterious circumstances.
Since then, relatives of deceased migrants have held small demonstrations in Sindh Province, southern Pakistan, but this is the first time they have taken their protest to the country’s capital, promising to organize a meeting. near the Indian Embassy.
The protesters accuse Indian intelligence of poisoning the 11 Hindus, who were found dead on a farm in the Indian district of Jodhpur, in the state of Rajasthan. The protesters arrived in Islamabad around midnight, chanting: “We need justice. ” They collided with officials who prevented them from accessing the embassy site.
After the deaths of August 9, Indian media reported that members of Pakistan’s Hindu family had committed suicide. The Islamabad official said New Delhi had not shared any report on the case.
Thursday’s demonstration was a movement for Pakistani Hindus, most of whom lived without confronting the country’s predominantly Muslim majority. Earlier this year, under pressure from radical Muslims, the Pakistani government stopped the structure of a Hindu temple in Islamabad.
Ramesh Kumar, a leader of the Hindu network that led Thursday’s protest, met Wednesday with Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi to help him pressure India to publish the effects of the initial police investigation into the case.
Pakistan also requested access to a Hindu employee who was on the Farm in Jodhpur at the time of death, according to government officials.
In his meeting with Qureshi, Kumar said that Shrimati Mukhi, the daughter of the late head of the family circle, had filed the charges of poisoning. Earlier this month, he told local media that India had insisted on the circle of relatives to factor a complaint. the Government of Pakistán. No there has been no official comment from India on these allegations.
Last week, Pakistan summoned an Indian diplomat to explain his considerations about the “Jodhpur incident. “Later, the ministry said India “had not shared really extensive main points related to the cause and death cases” of Hindus and called for a thorough investigation.
Pakistan and India, rivals in nuclear weapons, have a history of bitter relations. The Pakistani army said Wednesday that two of its infantrymen had been killed through an Indian chimney in a ceasefire violation in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir. two countries still claimed through any of them in their entirety. India and Pakistan have fought two of their 3 wars opposed to Kashmir since independence in 1947.