Pakistan-based Sikh Man, Daughters Threatened By Local Muslims

A Pakistan-based Sikh man was threatened by local Muslims in Jacobabad, Sindh when he went to pick his daughters up from school. A video shared by the Founder and Chief Organiser of the Hindu Organisation of Sindh shows the Sikh man describing the incident. He has also urged the locals to save him from these atrocities.

“I am pleading with the locals of Jacobabad with folded hands that on January 26 when I was coming back after picking up my daughters, there was a lot of crowd on the road. Bike-borne Muslims abused and threatened to kill me and my daughters. They hit my scooter. I suffered an injury in my leg. My daughters are worried. They are refusing to go to school,” said Harish Singh in a video shared by Narain Das Bheel, Founder and Chief Organiser of the Hindu Organisation of Sindh.

Singh appealed to the Muslim leaders and the local community for their support and asked them to save his family.

BJP leader Manjinder Singh Sirsa urged the Ministry of External Affairs to look into the matter. He shared the video as well and said, “Radicals of Jacobabad issuing open threats to Sikhs but Pak Govt stays silent. A resident of Harish Singh Gurdwara says that Muslims are threatening to kill him. Only Govt of India can raise the voice for safety and justice of minorities in Pak @MEAIndia.”

Cases of aggression and violence against the Sikh community in Pakistan have been on the rise. According to a report, in August 2021, Sikhs in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa protested as Islamic extremists forcibly converted a female Sikh teacher and performed her nikah. Her family approached the police station, but nobody registered their complaint. According to an India Today report from February 2022, the population of Sikh people in Pakistan has dropped significantly over the past two decades from around 40,000 in 2002 to 8,000 now.

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