“‘Fear and Anxiety’: Pakistan’s Minority Sikhs flee restive Province in face of rising violence”, Rferl, September 28, 2024:
“Radesh Singh Tony survived three assassination attempts in 2018, forcing him and his family to flee their home in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar.
Tony, a member of the tiny Sikh religious minority in predominately Muslim Pakistan, had run in the parliamentary elections that year on a platform of tolerance.
The threats to the family persisted even when they moved to the eastern city of Lahore, where Tony and his teenage son were brutally beaten by a group of hard-line Islamists in 2019.
The incident compelled Tony and his family to escape to neighboring India, where the vast majority of the world’s estimated 25 million Sikhs reside……..”
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