Baloch families seek asylum

LurkerBaba · Mar 6, 2012

More than a 100 Baloch families have applied to the Indian High Commission seeking asylum

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Traditionally religious minority groups in Balochistan have lived in a tolerant environment, rubbing along with others of differing faith reasonably well â€“ but that is changing. There are recent reports borne out by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan that Hindus are feeling threatened in many cases and there are reliable reports of many abductions from the Hindu community. In the last month alone about 35 Hindu families have fled to Hub from different parts of the province, seeing it as a â€˜safe havenâ€™ from the conflicts that abound across Balochistan. Reports say that this is not just a recent phenomenon and has been going on at â€˜trickleâ€™ level for years, but there has been a recent uptick in the numbers of families feeling so insecure that they decided to relocate.

The reports speak of abduction for ransom, traders and business-people as well as professionals like teachers and doctors, being harassed and in some cases dragged from their homes or places of work and killed in broad daylight. These people are not criminals or anything other than the â€˜otherâ€™ â€“ but they are now the targets â€“ but of who? It is not just Hindus who are being targeted, it is Muslim minorities too. In at least one incident a double-top pickup with government plates was seen to be used by armed men who dragged a Bohra named Zohaib from his shop and killed him by the road. The HRCP chapter in Quetta says that at least 25 Bohra families have fled Quetta in recent months. Nobody is ever brought to book for these crimes, there seems to be little inclination on the part of the government, provincial or federal, to follow up on them and pursue those who murder and harass minorities, and it is difficult to deduce other than that a blind eye is being turned, a deaf ear to protestations. Matters have got so bad that around 100 families have applied to the Indian High Commission seeking asylum â€“ and these are people who were born and bred in Balochistan and whose families have lived there for generations. They have grown up with Baloch customs and consider themselves Baloch â€“ which does nothing to stop them suffering miserably at the hands of...who? Seemingly the misery of Balochistan never ceases, and almost daily there is evidence that it is ever-deepening with the minorities also being targeted.
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Mad Indian · Mar 6, 2012

Good lord! Sins of the fathers

Blackwater · Mar 6, 2012

If they apply asylum in Canada or UK embassy probably they will get it sooner and their life will be better there.

Too much of red tapism in India and life will not be that easy in India too.

Mad Indian · Mar 6, 2012

blackwater said: ↑

If they apply asylum in Canada or UK embassy probably they will get it sooner and their life will be better there.

Too much of red tapism in India and life will not be that easy in India too.
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Sadly this is very too

Blackwater · Mar 6, 2012

Mad Indian said: ↑

Sadly this is very too
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very too ????

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