[DAWN] A member of the ruling Pakistain Mohammedan League-Nawaz (PML-N), Dr Ramesh Kumar Vankwani revealed in the National Assembly on Monday that around 5,000 Hindus are migrating from Pakistain to India every year.Commenting on law and order situation in the country, the PML-N MNA said that six incidents of religious desecration happened within last two months in Sindh, majority of the incidents were regarding burning the religious books of Hindu minority in the province.
Vankwani said that it was the constitutional rights of the people, belonging to different minorities, to practice their religion freely in Pakistain. "Are we not part of Pakistain?" he questioned.
He said that influential people were forcefully converting religion of Hindu girls in interior Sindh, urging the government to take steps to counter such attempts from Mohammedan majority in the country.
The PML-N politician also said that it was the teaching of all the religions to respect other faiths but the minorities had failed to get equal rights in Pakistain.