A young Hindu girl was gang-raped for 2 days in a flood-hit area of Sindh, Pakistan, on the pretext of being given food.

The girl was promised rations by autorickshaw driver Khaled, but he instead took her and raped her (archived video). She was kept drugged for 2 days and also raped by another man Dilsher. Both accused Muslim men are from the Macchi caste, she informed. The incident occurred in Shahdadpur, Sanghar district of Sindh province.

Earlier, some Hindus in Umerkot, Sindh who were forced to live on roads due to the floods, had complained about attempted rape of their women by goons.

Most Pakistani Hindus live in Sindh province, and they are among the poorest sections of Pakistani society. They face human rights violation like land grabbing, abduction, conversion, suicide of young generation due to lack of employment etc. Worse, many still live as bonded laborers of their Muslim landlords and suffer routine exploitation which they dare not report to police.

Hindus and other minorities face severe institutionalized discrimination in Pakistan. Even during the pandemic, discrimination in relief work was widespread. Reports of Pakistani Hindus and other minorities being denied rations and Covid-19 relief by NGOs and Government authorities had appeared widely in media at the time. Here is a reminder of some of those heart-breaking incidents:

1.) Shirimati Dia w/o Zal kaju Kohli commited suicide becouse of poverty and hunger in village Haji Sultan, Jhudo, Mirpur Khas, Sindh after rations were denied to Hindus by NGOs and government.

2.) Chaglu Meghwad was tortured (a hot iron rod was pushed into his anus) and murdered by his ‘owner’ Hayat Khan when he tried to escape as he was not being paid and his children were starving. Police initially tried to close it as a ‘suicide’ case, but later registered a murder case against Hayat Khan and others.

3.) 2 Hindu men, Ashok and Chaman, were severely beaten by shopkeepers when they went to buy daily use items in Tando Jan Muhammad,Mir Khuda Bakhsh Colony, Sindh. Police lodged a case against the 2 victims.

The hapless Hindu victims often do not have the resources to pursue the cases, and it is dangerous for anyone living within Pakistan to raise too loud a voice on behalf of Pakistani minorities as there is the perennial risk of swift retribution from the Pakistani Army-jihadi-mullah nexus.

Police and governments are oblivious to their plight, and often hand in glove with influential men like Sufi pir Mian Mithoo who runs an organized racket of abducting, raping and converting Hindu girls. Even basic laws to prevent conversion of minors fail to pass in Pakistan due to pressure from Islamic religious bodies.

Public in Bharat is also largely unaware of the brutal genocide being carried out against Pakistani Hindus and other minorities as our media also tends to avoid such news in the interest of ‘secularism’ & ‘liberalism’. While Indian cricketers like Yuvraj Singh and Harbhajan Singh made video appeals to raise funds for the charity of a bigoted Islamist Pakistani cricketer like Shahid Afridi, ignorance and apathy means our cricketing and Bollywood celebrity world maintains pin-drop silence on the brutal persecution of Hindus in Pakistan.

Politicians, cutting across party lines, hesitate to raise such issues inside or outside Parliament due to fear of being labelled ‘communal’ or ‘majoritarian’. CAA, the one step taken by the Government of Bharat in a long-long time to offer some respite to beleaguered Pakistani Hindu refugees living in Bharat, faced rioting & strong resistance from the entire Islamist-liberal-secular-communist spectrum of society.