Pak Hindus threaten to launch protest to seek Indian citizenship

Aug 19, 2012, 11:05AM



Jalandhar: With their hopes dashed to seek Indian citizenship, Pakistani Hinuds are likely stage a dharna outside Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's residence.

According to a report published in an English daily, All India Shiv Sena - an organisation working for Pak Hindus - has threatned to stage protest outside PM residence if the government failed to give them citizenship.

Pakistani Hindus have been urging the Indian government to grant them either refugee status or citizenship, claiming that they are not treated well in their home country.

The Union government should grant them Indian citizenship as they are migrating from Pakistan under distress and have been left with no option, said Surinder Kumar Billa, who leads the organisation.

"The government is doing injustice to the Hindus by not giving them a permanent settlement," he alleged, and demanded that the government should consider their cases on humanitarian ground.

Most of the Pak Hindus have come on a month-long visa ostensibly for pilgrimage and many of them have reportedly expressed their desire not to go back to Pakistan.

And all these years, they have been surviving on hope- that one day they will be granted Indian citizenship.

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