Hindu community in Pakistan protests against kid-nappings, lawlessness

ISLAMABAD: The Hindu community in Kashmore district of Pakistan's Sindh province has had enough of the continuous lawlessness, kidnappings for ransom and failure of authorities to recover the victims.

The continued kidnappings targeted on Hindu traders and community members in Kashmir has sparked a wave of protests across the province. Kashmore’s Hindu community staged a strong protest, blocking the main In-dus Highway for at least 34 hours, disconnecting the road route of Sindh province from Balochistan and Punjab. The protesters chanted slogans for freedom and justice, demanding immediate action against the ongoing abduc-tions of their loved ones from the community and others in and around the Kashmor district, who they said have been kidnapped for ransom by miscreants.

The protests in Kashmore have also been supported in the main centre of the Sindh province Karachi, where hundreds of protestors from the Hindu community, the civil society and others gathered at the “teen talwar” round-about in Clifton, to record their strong protest against the ongoing abduction and provincial government’s failure.

“Kidnapping for ransom, highway robberies, shop looting, motorcycle stealing and house robberies in Kashmir and Kandhkot have spread panic and fear among the Hindu community, which has been living there for decades. It as become negligible to carry out trading and other business activities after the rising lawlessness”, said Jitesh Kumar, a local resident and businessperson in Kashmore.

Another local trader in Kashmore said that the security situation and fear among the Hindu community has be-come so high that many families started migrating to others parts of the province, while many were migrating from Sindh to India. “Migration of Hindu families from Thulh, Kashmore is due to the failure of Sindh police in main-taining law and order. Hindu families have also started migrating from Sindh to India because of increased cases of kidnappings and forced conversions of Hindu girls,” said Sumeet Rathore. IANS

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