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India-Pakistan
Dozens of Pakistani Hindus seek asylum in India
2012-09-10
[Dawn] A group of Pak Hindus arriving in the Indian state of Rajhasthan says that they will not return to their home country, according to a report published by the BBCUrdu.

The group of 171 people arrived in Rajhasthan's Jodhpur city via the 'Thar Express' train on Sunday.

Although the passengers in the group traveled to the Indian state on pilgrimage visas for religious purposes, they claim they will not return to Pakistain.

The Seemant Lok Sangthan (SLS), an organization for Hindus from Pakistain settled in India, has appealed to the Indian government to grant the group immigrant visas.

According to a front man of the organization, all 171 people in the group have arrived in Jodhpur from Pakistain's Sindh province, and "they all belong to Sanghar or Hyderabad."

The group comprises of 32 women and kiddies of whom a majority belong to the low-caste Bheel community of Hindus.

"You can not understand our pain. My father recently passed away; I could not even find a place to perform my father's last rites," the BBCUrdu quoted one of the people arriving with the group. "We will not go back to Pakistain. You may kill us if you wish, but we will not return."

The news follows media reports earlier last month of hundreds of Pak Hindu nationals from Sindh allegedly migrating to India over concerns of religious persecution and security fears. A committee was formed by President Asif Ali Ten Percent Zardari
... husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, who has been singularly lacking in curiosity about who done her in ...
to look into the reports of mass migration. However,
some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them...
the committee rejected the claims that members of the minority community were leaving Sindh.

Later in August, authorities in Rajhasthan state announced that around 900 Pak Hindus had become eligible to apply for Indian citizenship. The people included those Paks who had traveled to India prior to December 31, 2004 and refused return to their home country.
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