Residents of Delhi's Majnu Ka Tila camp express joy over CAB
5 years ago

Residents of Delhi's Majnu Ka Tila camp express joy over CAB

Op India  

Following the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Bill by both the Houses of Parliament which grants citizenship to persecuted religious minorities of three neighbouring countries, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, there is a sense of jubilation and newfound freedom among minorities especially Pakistani Hindus who are currently residing in the country. On Thursday, speaking to OpIndia team, Pakistani Hindus living in north Delhi’s Majnu ka Tila expressed joy following the passing of Citizenship Amendment Bill in both houses of Parliament. Speaking to OpIndia team, several families, who had come to India years ago after fleeing Pakistan said that they had left the country on the pretext of visiting India on a religious trip. With both the houses of Parliament passing the historic Citizenship Amendment Bill, people belonging to six minority communities of three Islamic countries – Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, will now be granted citizenship in India provided they had arrived here on or before 31 December 2014.

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Pakistan says 1.45 million Afghan refugees can stay for another year
5 months, 4 weeks ago

Pakistan says 1.45 million Afghan refugees can stay for another year

The Hindu  

Pakistan announced on July 10 that it is extending the stay of 1.45 million Afghan refugees who legally reside in the country, a day after a visit by the U.N. refugee agency. Afghan refugees with proper documentation will be able to remain in Pakistan until June 30, 2025, according to a statement issued by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's office. The …

Pakistani refugees hail citizenship rights
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Pakistani refugees hail citizenship rights

The Hindu  

The granting of citizenship to over 300 people by the Centre under the Citizenship Act, 2019, has ignited the hope of a better future among Pakistani Hindu refugees living in north Delhi’s Majnu ka Tila. Yashoda, 29, who came to Delhi in 2013 from Pakistan and got citizenship, said she would now be able to send her children to a …

Gujarat: 18 Hindu refugees from Pakistan conferred Indian citizenship at camp in Ahmedabad
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Gujarat: 18 Hindu refugees from Pakistan conferred Indian citizenship at camp in Ahmedabad

India TV News  

CAA implementation: As many as 18 Hindu refugees from Pakistan residing in Ahmedabad were conferred Indian citizenship on Saturday at a camp which was attended by Gujarat minister of state for Home Harsh Sanghavi. With this, a total of 1167 Hindu refugees from Pakistan residing in Ahmedabad district have so far been granted Indian citizenship. Gazette notifications of 2016 and …

Hindu refugee in Delhi's Majnu Ka Tilla recall horrific days in Pakistan, others thank Modi for notifying CAA
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Hindu refugee in Delhi's Majnu Ka Tilla recall horrific days in Pakistan, others thank Modi for notifying CAA

Op India  

On Tuesday, March 12, the Delhi High Court instructed the Delhi Development Authority to not take any coercive action against the Pakistani Hindu refugee camp at the city’s Majnu Ka Tilla area until the next date of hearing. pic.twitter.com/ZbrqB1XCGd — Swati Goel Sharma March 14, 2024 With the Centre notifying the rules for the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act, …

Fact Check Pakistan Has Not Implemented Citizenship Amendment Act For Indian Muslims
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Fact Check Pakistan Has Not Implemented Citizenship Amendment Act For Indian Muslims

ABP News  

Logically Facts contacted two Pakistani journalists who confirmed that the viral claim on social media is 'totally wrong' and has 'no basis.' Amid discussions around this law, a screenshot purportedly from an X post by Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has gone viral on social media. The text in the screenshot reads: “To counter Indian Govt's undemocratic and communal CAA, …

Pakistani Hindu refugees in Delhi celebrate after implementation of CAA
9 months, 4 weeks ago

Pakistani Hindu refugees in Delhi celebrate after implementation of CAA

India Today  

Holi came early for around 1,000 Pakistani Hindu refugees staying in a camp in the Majnu Ka Tila area in Delhi. The reason for this celebration was the hope that the 200 families would become official citizens of India after the notification of the Citizenship Amendment Act. One of the refugees, Dayal Prasad, left Sindh in 2011 and came to …

MHA says CAA doesn’t impact Indian Muslims, they enjoy equal rights like Hindus
9 months, 4 weeks ago

MHA says CAA doesn’t impact Indian Muslims, they enjoy equal rights like Hindus

Hindustan Times  

The ministry of home affairs on Tuesday sought to allay fears among the Muslim community about the Citizenship Amendment Act saying the law doesn’t impact them as they enjoy equal rights like their Hindu counterparts and that no Indian citizens would be asked to produce any document to prove his or her nationality. No Indian citizen would be asked to …

CAA: Who Will Benefit -- Pak Hindu Refugees in Delhi, Matuas, Rajbanshis in Bengal? What Changes Now?
9 months, 4 weeks ago

CAA: Who Will Benefit -- Pak Hindu Refugees in Delhi, Matuas, Rajbanshis in Bengal? What Changes Now?

News 18  

After the delay of four years, the government has finally notified the rules under the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019, which will be implemented in the entire country. According to the Ministry of Home Affairs, at least 30,000 “persecuted” minorities such as Hindus, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis, Sikhs and Christians from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh could benefit from the CAA. Rajasthan & …

India notifies citizenship law for minority refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan
9 months, 4 weeks ago

India notifies citizenship law for minority refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan

Firstpost  

The CAA was passed in December 2019 and subsequently got the president’s assent but there were protests in several parts of the country against it The Prime Minister Modi-led BJP government on Monday notified the Citizenship Amendment Act rules. The Ministry of Home Affairs in a statement on X, formerly Twitter, said, “Ministry of Home Affairs will be notifying today, …

Scapegoating: The Hindu Editorial on Afghan refugees in Pakistan
1 year, 2 months ago

Scapegoating: The Hindu Editorial on Afghan refugees in Pakistan

The Hindu  

The Pakistan government’s order to all undocumented migrants to leave the country by October 31 has thrown the lives of hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees in jeopardy. But Pakistan’s Interior Ministry says some 1.7 million people are staying “illegally”, a vast majority of them Afghans. Thousands are now stranded on the Afghan-Pakistan border, while others are in fear of …

Thousands of Afghan refugees fleeing Pakistan as deportation deadline looms
1 year, 2 months ago

Thousands of Afghan refugees fleeing Pakistan as deportation deadline looms

Al Jazeera  

People head to the border before the expiration of a deadline for ‘illegal’ migrants to leave or face deportation. Earlier this month, Pakistan’s interim interior minister, Sarfaraz Bugti, issued an October 31 deadline for all “illegal” refugees and migrants to leave, citing security concerns. Khan said removing Afghans who had been living in Pakistan for many years – and even …

Pakistan wants undocumented migrants to leave by November 1 or get deported
1 year, 3 months ago

Pakistan wants undocumented migrants to leave by November 1 or get deported

Al Jazeera  

Government’s planned crackdown makes the future of an estimated 1.7 million Afghans in Pakistan uncertain. Pakistan has ordered all undocumented immigrants, mainly nearly 1.73 million Afghan nationals, to voluntarily leave the country or face deportations. Bugti said an estimated 1.73 million Afghan nationals in Pakistan have no legal documents to stay, adding that a total of 4.4 million Afghan refugees …

Old tweet of Pakistan's caretaker PM saying he is waiting for all Hindus to convert to Islam goes viral
1 year, 3 months ago

Old tweet of Pakistan's caretaker PM saying he is waiting for all Hindus to convert to Islam goes viral

Op India  

Pakistan, which has a tainted history of persecuting, and discriminating against religious minorities especially the Hindus there, is currently under the rule of caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar ul Haq Kakar. An old post on X of Pakistan’s caretaker PM has now gone viral wherein he said that Muslims are ready to wait for a millennium to see all Hindus get …

CAA back in limelight as Pakistani Hindus face renewed attack
1 year, 5 months ago

CAA back in limelight as Pakistani Hindus face renewed attack

Firstpost  

Hindus in Pakistan are often treated as second-class citizens and experience systematic discrimination in various aspects of life, including housing, jobs, and access to government welfare The idea of Pakistan was founded on the Two-Nation Theory, which proposed that Hindus and Muslims in South Asia could not coexist peacefully and needed separate nations. Over time, anti-Hindu riots and discrimination further …

75 Years After Partition, Hindus Still Treated Like Second-Class Citizens in Indian Subcontinent
1 year, 11 months ago

75 Years After Partition, Hindus Still Treated Like Second-Class Citizens in Indian Subcontinent

News 18  

On 5 January, Bangladesh National Hindu Grand Alliance tabled its annual report of atrocities on Bangladeshi minorities. Pakistan didn’t even have a legal provision to register Hindu marriages until 2017 when a law was passed in the Pakistani senate. Seventy-five years have passed since Partition but even today certain rights such as divorce, adoption and inheritance evade Hindus of Pakistan. …

Pakistan issues 96 visas to Indian pilgrims
2 years ago

Pakistan issues 96 visas to Indian pilgrims

Deccan Chronicle  

NEW DELHI: The Pakistan high commission on Monday said it has issued 96 visas to a group of pilgrims from India to facilitate their travel to the Shree Katas Raj temples in the Punjab province's Chakwal district. Under the provision of a bilateral protocol on visits to religious shrines, Sikh and Hindu pilgrims from India visit Pakistan every year. "The …

‘Very Much Indian’: 25 Hindu Refugees from Pakistan Living in Rajkot to Cast Vote for First Time in Guj Polls
2 years, 1 month ago

‘Very Much Indian’: 25 Hindu Refugees from Pakistan Living in Rajkot to Cast Vote for First Time in Guj Polls

News 18  

Sunil Dev Maheshwari, a 37-year-old refugee from Pakistan, received a prized possession in August – Indian citizenship. Sunil and 24 other Pakistani Hindu refugees will vote in an Indian election for the first time after being granted citizenship in Rajkot. On August 12, 25 Pakistani Hindu refugees were granted Indian citizenship in Rajkot and it was the happiest moment in …

Explained: How India grants citizenship to minorities from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan
2 years, 2 months ago

Explained: How India grants citizenship to minorities from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan

Firstpost  

Matters related to citizenship are handled by the Centre but it can delegate powers to state officials. Now the Ministry of Home Affairs has empowered two districts in Gujarat to give citizenship to minority communities from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan under the Citizenship Act, 1955 The Centre will continue to grant citizenship to six minority communities – Hindu, Sikh, Parsi, …

With Sikhs practically extinct in Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, India’s case as a natural homeland deserves a revisit
2 years, 3 months ago

With Sikhs practically extinct in Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, India’s case as a natural homeland deserves a revisit

Firstpost  

If they can’t come back to India which was once the land of their ancestors, then where do they go? As 55 Hindus and Sikhs landed in New Delhi on a special flight from Afghanistan this week, the plight of persecuted minorities in India’s neighbourhood once again came to the fore. These Hindus and Sikhs are one of the very …

Gujarat: Harsh Sanghvi grants citizenship certificates to Hindu refugees from Pakistan
2 years, 4 months ago

Gujarat: Harsh Sanghvi grants citizenship certificates to Hindu refugees from Pakistan

Op India  

On Monday, August 22, Harsh Sanghavi, Gujarat’s Minister of State for Home, handed over citizenship certificates to several Pakistani Hindu refugees who had come to Ahmedabad years ago and had applied for Indian citizenship. “जहाँ डाल डाल पर सोने की चिड़िया करती है बसेरा वो भारत देश है मेरा” अहमदाबाद जिले में किसी कारणवश कई वर्षो पूर्व स्थानांतरित हुए भारतीय …

Women's panel launches study on plight of Hindu women refugees living in Delhi's Majnu ka Tila
2 years, 4 months ago

Women's panel launches study on plight of Hindu women refugees living in Delhi's Majnu ka Tila

India Today  

The Delhi Commission for Women has launched a study into the plight of women and child Hindu refugees who have escaped from Pakistan and have been residing in Majnu Ka Tila, Delhi for the past several years. PLIGHT OF HINDU REFUGEES Secluded within a confined zone in Delhi's Majnu Ka Tila, Hindu refugees continue to live in deplorable conditions where …

‘If we convert to Islam, will you give us houses?’: Pakistani Hindu refugees ask Centre
2 years, 4 months ago

‘If we convert to Islam, will you give us houses?’: Pakistani Hindu refugees ask Centre

Firstpost  

A Pakistani Hindu who migrated to India in 2014 from Karachi and now lives in Jodhpur awaiting Indian citizenship told how 35,000 refugees such as him have been living in deplorable conditions New Delhi: “If the Hindu refugees from Pakistan, who have been languishing across several cities in India, convert to Islam, will Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri provide them …

Pakistani Hindu refugees at Delhi's Majnu ka Tila remain devoid of basic facilities
2 years, 5 months ago

Pakistani Hindu refugees at Delhi's Majnu ka Tila remain devoid of basic facilities

The Hindu  

Secluded within a confined zone in Delhi's Majnu-Ka-Tila, Pakistani Hindu refugees who moved to India with hopes of securing their lives have been surviving in tents and semi-kutcha houses with no access to basic facilities like water and electricity. Fifty-two-year-old refugee Radha Solanki, who moved to India from Pakistan nine years ago, said their hopes and dreams were shattered after …

800 Pakistani Hindus left India after failing to get citizenship, says advocacy group
2 years, 8 months ago

800 Pakistani Hindus left India after failing to get citizenship, says advocacy group

The Hindu  

May 08, 2022 06:28 pm | Updated May 09, 2022 07:57 pm IST - New Delhi Around 800 Pakistani Hindus in Rajasthan, who came to India seeking citizenship on the basis of religious persecution, returned to the neighbouring country in 2021, according to Seemant Lok Sangathan, a group that advocates for the rights of Pakistani minority migrants in India. It …

MP: Six Pakistani Migrants Granted Indian Citizenship
3 years, 6 months ago

MP: Six Pakistani Migrants Granted Indian Citizenship

News 18  

Six Pakistani migrants, living in Madhya Pradesh for decades, were granted Indian citizenship on Wednesday under the Citizenship Amendment Act, officials said. “Indian citizenship has been provided to these Hindu migrants who reached here due to religious persecution in neighbouring countries. Among the six who were granted Indian citizenship, Nandlal and Amit Kumar are residents of Bhopal while Arjundas Manchandani, …

Hindu migrants — Persecuted in Pakistan, ignored in India
3 years, 6 months ago

Hindu migrants — Persecuted in Pakistan, ignored in India

The Hindu  

For two decades, Jogdas Maharaj waited in vain for Indian citizenship. Hindu Singh Sodha, president of the Seemant Lok Sangathan, an organisation working for the welfare of migrants, points out that there have been three waves of migration of Hindus to India from Pakistan. While affirming that the government needs to be migrant-friendly, Sodha has sought the grant of citizenship …

IUML moves Supreme Court against Centre seeking applications for citizenship of non-Muslim refugees
3 years, 7 months ago

IUML moves Supreme Court against Centre seeking applications for citizenship of non-Muslim refugees

India Today  

The Indian Union Muslim League has moved the Supreme Court challenging the recent Ministry of Home Affairs notification seeking applications for citizenship from non-Muslim refugees from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh. IUML has moved the Supreme Court against the Centre’s notification making it possible for persons residing in certain districts belonging to minority communities such as Hindus, Sikhs, Christians, Buddhists, Jains …

Afghan Sikh refugees happy over invitation for Indian citizenship
3 years, 7 months ago

Afghan Sikh refugees happy over invitation for Indian citizenship

Op India  

Hours after the Modi government invited applications from non-Muslim refugees for granting them Indian citizenship, Sikh refugees from Afghanistan have expressed their happiness over the decision. Punjab: Sikh refugees in Ludhiana express happiness over Central govt’s decision to invite them to apply for Indian citizenship. The Union Home Ministry issued a notification asking people belonging to six persecuted communities to …

CAA: MHA Invites Indian Citizenship Applications from Non-Muslim Refugees from Afghan, Pak, B'desh
3 years, 7 months ago

CAA: MHA Invites Indian Citizenship Applications from Non-Muslim Refugees from Afghan, Pak, B'desh

News 18  

The Centre on Friday invited non-Muslims like Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and Buddhists belonging to Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan and residing in 13 districts in Gujarat, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Haryana and Punjab to apply for Indian citizenship. The Union home ministry issued a notification in this effect for immediate implementation of the order under the Citizenship Act 1955 and Rules framed under …

Set Us Free From This Cage, Let Us Return: 'Brides of Pakistan' in Frontier J&K District
3 years, 9 months ago

Set Us Free From This Cage, Let Us Return: 'Brides of Pakistan' in Frontier J&K District

News 18  

Zareena Begum, 33, came to north Kashmir’s frontier Kupwara district over a decade ago. Saira is at the forefront of a campaign demanding citizenship rights for “the brides of Pakistan” and their children. “If they don’t want to give us citizenship rights and passport, they should simply deport us back to Pakistan along with our families,” she says. In 2010, …

A year after CAA, refugees in India still waiting for citizenship
4 years ago

A year after CAA, refugees in India still waiting for citizenship

Al Jazeera  

Hindu and Sikh refugees in India still wait for nationality a year after a controversial citizenship law was passed. Last December, India’s Hindu nationalist government amended the country’s citizenship law to expedite nationality for persecuted immigrants – except Muslims – from three neighbouring countries, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. A Sikh refugee, Surbeer, 33, is among some 31,313 eligible refugees in …

Pakistan: Hindu homes set on fire to force them to convert to Islam
4 years, 2 months ago

Pakistan: Hindu homes set on fire to force them to convert to Islam

Op India  

Pakistani human rights activist Rahat Austin had recently shared that the homes of Hindus belonging to the highly marginalised and socio-economically backward Bheel and Meghwal community was set on fire in Pakistan. He said that one Dost Muhammad and some others simultaneously set fire to the houses of these poverty-stricken Hindus in Pakistan’s Sumar Puli, Khai, Sanghar and Sindh district. …

Hindus in Pakistan are accepting Islam so that they can survive in the country
4 years, 5 months ago

Hindus in Pakistan are accepting Islam so that they can survive in the country

Op India  

Pakistani Hindus are known to be one the most badly persecuted minority community in the world. There have been regular reports about how young Hindu girls are kidnapped and married off to their abductors in Pakistan. Now a report in the New York Times has shown how the poor Hindus of Pakistan are left with no choice but to accept …

Hundreds of Pakistani Hindus, victims of bonded labour and poor, convert to Islam for jobs: Report
4 years, 5 months ago

Hundreds of Pakistani Hindus, victims of bonded labour and poor, convert to Islam for jobs: Report

India TV News  

Religious persecution and forced conversion continues unabated in Pakistan as dozens of Hindu families were converted to Islam in June in the Badin district of Sindh Province in southern Pakistan, which borders with Gujarat's Kutch at its south. According to a New York Times report, the mass ceremony was the latest in line of growing number of attempts by various …

100 Pakistan Hindu families cross Attari-Wagah border fearing persecution, say want to settle in India
4 years, 11 months ago

100 Pakistan Hindu families cross Attari-Wagah border fearing persecution, say want to settle in India

India Today  

Amid the controversy over the Citizenship Act, minority Pakistani Hindu families continue to flee the Islamic country saying that they are being persecuted on the basis of their religion. Nearly 100 Pakistani Hindu families crossed Attari-Wagah border and reached Amritsar on Monday. The 100 Hindu families, who crossed the border on Monday, said: "Humanity has died in Pakistan and they …

Citizenship Amendment Act will help us: Pakistani Hindu refugee thanks PM Modi
5 years ago

Citizenship Amendment Act will help us: Pakistani Hindu refugee thanks PM Modi

India TV News  

Amid various protests taking place in the country on Citizenship Amendment Act and NRC, Pakistani Hindu refugees in Jaisalmer held a march in support of CAA on Monday. Speaking in the favour of CAA, a refugee said, "we have been staying here since last 5-7 years and we are yet to get citizenship. A woman refugee thanked Prime Minister Narendra …

Hindu refugees in Delhi force anti-CAA activist Medha Patkar to leave
5 years ago

Hindu refugees in Delhi force anti-CAA activist Medha Patkar to leave

Op India  

On Thursday, controversial ‘activist’ Medha Patkar suffered a huge embarrassment after Hindu refugees from Pakistan staying in Delhi confronted her yesterday. Delhi: Refugees from Pakistan living in Delhi compel anti Citizenship Amendment Bill activist Medha Patkar to leave, video clip goes viralpic.twitter.com/Xg6dBO0qrC — DeshGujarat December 19, 2019 The angry crowd then urged Patkar to go and live in Pakistan to …

‘Now we can fly like a bird’: Pakistani Hindus in Delhi on citizenship bill
5 years ago

‘Now we can fly like a bird’: Pakistani Hindus in Delhi on citizenship bill

Hindustan Times  

Fireworks, whistles, loud cheers, and claps summed up the festive mood among Pakistani Hindus in the Majnu Ka Tila area here as Rajya Sabha passed the Citizenship Bill, stamping the seal of home for them in India. Her grandmother Meera Das told PTI that the baby was born on Monday and the family decided to name her “Nagrikta” anticipating the …

Citizenship Amendment Act: Hindu refugees from Pakistan hail PM Modi, Amit Shah
5 years ago

Citizenship Amendment Act: Hindu refugees from Pakistan hail PM Modi, Amit Shah

India Today  

Hindu refugees from Pakistan across the national capital were seen dancing to dhols and celebrating with sweets after the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Bill in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday. Thanking Narendra Modi and Amit Shah, Kumar said he'd never thought he would see this day. Rajya Sabha MP Vijay Goel and Delhi BJP President Manoj Tiwari reached the …

Hindu refugee family in Delhi names their daughter 'Nagrikta'
5 years ago

Hindu refugee family in Delhi names their daughter 'Nagrikta'

Op India  

The passage of Citizenship Amendment Bill in Lok Sabha has given hope and a lifeline to persecuted Hindus of Pakistan, who are currently living in the country as refugees. While several Pakistani Hindu refugees staying across India have been cheering for the Citizenship Bill and thanking PM Modi and Amit Shah, the Pakistani Hindus living in Majnu Ka Tila, a …

Pakistani Hindu refugees in Punjab and Rajasthan cheer for the CAB
5 years ago

Pakistani Hindu refugees in Punjab and Rajasthan cheer for the CAB

Op India  

The passage of Citizenship Amendment Bill in Lok Sabha has given hope and a lifeline to persecuted Hindus of Pakistan, who are currently living in the country as refugees. Following the passing of the bill in the lower house, Pakistani Hindus living in Rajasthan have thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah for bringing the historic bill …

Partition-era debate on who is Indian has been reopened by the citizenship bill, with grave consequences
5 years ago

Partition-era debate on who is Indian has been reopened by the citizenship bill, with grave consequences

Firstpost  

The Citizenship Bill is, at its heart, a debate waged around the rights of ignored Partition refugees, but with far wider implications for what it meant to be Indian Each time the angel of history awakened the dead, and made whole what had been smashed: those that had been battered, for generations, in wars against the Delhi sultans, against the …

Hindu migrants from Pakistan celebrate Citizenship Bill; massive protests rock North East
5 years ago

Hindu migrants from Pakistan celebrate Citizenship Bill; massive protests rock North East

India TV News  

Hindu migrants from Pakistan are cheering the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Bill in the Lok Sabha and are now looking forward to the bill getting a nod from the Rajya Sabha. We express our gratitude to Union Home Minister Amit Shah and the BJP government for giving us a chance to live in India with dignity," he said, adding …

Citizenship Amendment Bill: Shiv Sena wants no voting rights for persecuted Hindus
5 years, 1 month ago

Citizenship Amendment Bill: Shiv Sena wants no voting rights for persecuted Hindus

Op India  

The Citizenship Amendment Bill set to be tabled today aims to give citizenship to persecuted minorities from neighbouring Islamic nations of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut took to Twitter today to say that illegal intruders should be thrown out and immigrant Hindus should be given citizenship but they should not have voting rights since that would …

Citizenship Amendment Bill: A protest for some but hope for many Hindus, Sikhs who left Afghanistan
5 years, 1 month ago

Citizenship Amendment Bill: A protest for some but hope for many Hindus, Sikhs who left Afghanistan

India Today  

Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2019 was approved by Union cabinet on November 4 and it has received strong criticism by the opposition parties calling it a bill against the principle of Constitution. Now living in Delhi's CR Park on Afghan passport with no valid visa since past couple of years, Ramnath Kapoor told India Today, "In 1989 when Mujahideen and Taliban …

Pakistan ex-legislator seeks asylum in India
5 years, 3 months ago

Pakistan ex-legislator seeks asylum in India

Deccan Chronicle  

Chandigarh: A former Pakistan legislator from Imran Khan-led Tehreek-e-Insaaf Party on Tuesday sought political asylum in India, as he “fears for his life’’ in Pakistan. Mr Kumar has been staying with his wife and two children at Khanna in Punjab’s Ludhiana district since last month, told media that he has come to India seeking asylum as he feels his life …

34 Pakistani Hindus granted Indian citizenship in Rajasthan
5 years, 6 months ago

34 Pakistani Hindus granted Indian citizenship in Rajasthan

Op India  

The Rajasthan government has granted Indian citizenship to 34 Pakistani migrant Hindus living in 3 districts in Rajasthan. Recently, additional chief secretary Rajeeva Swarup has informed that in the month of June, 34 Pakistani Hindu migrants were granted citizenship by the government. In Barmer, district collector Himanshu Gupta and additional district collector Rakesh Kumar Sharma had handed over the certificates …

Why can’t Pakistani Hindus go to Europe or America as refugees if Syrians and Rohingyas can?
5 years, 9 months ago

Why can’t Pakistani Hindus go to Europe or America as refugees if Syrians and Rohingyas can?

Op India  

A tragic picture of a Syrian child lying lifeless at the sea shore as his family tried to escape his war-torn country had sent the entire Western world in collective guilt, because they thought they were not doing enough to help people who are persecuted in their own land. Because with an unfavourable government at Delhi and a global Hindu …

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