Pakistain has been in the news due to several reasons. The country is facing its worst economic crisis and the future looks weak.
Amidst this, the 'Aman ki Asha' proponents have come out and said that India must help Pakistain at this time of crisis. Similar demands were made many years back when this particular brigade spoke about patching things up with Pakistain, despite the country shielding the criminal masterminds of the Mumbai 26/11 attacks in which over 160 innocents died.
The 'India must help Pakistain' is being made despite the Pulwama and Uri attacks in which several Indian braves bit the dust. While terror attacks are an ongoing affair, it must be noted that each one of them has had a Pakistain hand in it. The Indian Mujahideen
A locally recruited auxilliary of Pakistain's Lashkar-e-Taiba, designed to give a domestic patina to Pakistain's terror war against its bigger neighbor...
was funded by Pakistain, the attacks on Parliament, the 2006 train bombings in Mumbai, Samjautha Express blast, just to name a few all had direct links to Pakistain.
Pakistain has allowed its soil to be used as a launch pad for terror attacks. Moreover it shields the likes of Hafiz Saeed
...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat. He is periodically placed under house arrest so it looks like the govt is doing something. Once the heat is off they let him go....
, Masood Azhar
...One of the major players in Pak terrorism. In early 1994, India incarcerated him for his activities. In 1995, foreign tourists were kidnapped in Jammu and Kashmir. The kidnappers included his release among their demands. One of the hostages managed to escape but the rest were eventually killed. In 1999, he was freed by the Indian government in exchange for passengers on hijacked Indian Airlines Flight 814 that had been diverted to Kandahar. The hijackers were led by Masood Azhar's brother, Ibrahim Athar. Once he was handed over to the hijackers, they fled to Pak territory despite the fact that Islamabad had earlier stated that any of the hijackers would be jugged at the border. The Pak government had also previously indicated that Azhar would be allowed to return home since he did not face any charges there. Shortly after his release, he made a public address to an estimated 10,000 people in Karachi, firing up the rubes against America and India...
among others. Whatever action Pakistain has taken against these monstrous Jihadis has only been token and has been a way of avoiding international pressure.
Terror attacks, infiltration, fake currency, terror funding are some of the ploys by Pakistain to keep India on the boil. The country operates with the sole agenda of trying to put India down. It has also been responsible for wars against India, all of which it lost.
The persecution:
Now coming to another issue that is boiling and continues to boil everyday. The persecution of the religious minorities, especially the Hindus in Pakistain. As we write this article, there could be a persecution on in Pakistain. Just last week, a minor Hindu girl was kidnapped, converted to Islam and marked off.
India has raised this concern on various occasions, but there has never been any solution to it.
Pakistain even had the audacity to reject a bill against forced religious conversions. In October 2021, the parliamentary committee had rejected this bill and then religious affairs minister, Noorul Haq Qadri had said that the atmosphere was not conducive to enact such a law. The minister had said that such a law could disturb peace and harmony in the country.
The violence against Hindus has been instituted in Pakistain. Description of Temples, rapes, forced conversions and cases of torture have been documented.
Every month, 25 Hindu girls are raped and converted to Islam according to the Pakistain Human Rights Council. Girls just vanish from their homes and are converted and then are forcibly married off.
In 2010, 60 members of the Hindu community in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
were attacked because one of them was drinking water near a Mosque.
At this rate of Islamist persecution, Hindus in Bangladesh may survive another 20 years onlyAt this rate of Islamist persecution, Hindus in Bangladesh may survive another 20 years only
In 2003, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistain said that 1,000 Hindu families from Pakistain had fled to India. In 2014 it was found that 5,000 Hindus are migrating to India every year. Pakistain has also successfully used its blasphemy
...the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity, or sacred objects, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable. Some religions consider it to be a crime. In Pakistain you can commit blasphemy by looking cross-eyed at a Koran...laws to target the Hindus.
These are just few statistics to show the atrocities Pakistain as a state has meted out against the Hindus and other minorities in the country. The persecution coupled with terror attacks is what Pakistain has offered India over the past many years.
The question is should India help. The other question is will Pakistain change. The answer to both is one big 'NO.'