At least 14 members of Pakistan’s Hindu minority community recentlyreturned from India after six months, saying their dreams of bettereconomic prospects in the neighboring country had been shattered.
Speaking to reporters at the Wagah border crossing, Kanhaya Lal and NanakRam, the heads of the families, said they went to India hoping for bettereconomic prospects, but it was a “farce” and they suffered great hardships.
India recently passed a controversial law allowing Hindus, Sikhs, Parsis,Jains and Christians from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh to apply forfast-track citizenship.
Last month, a family of 11 Pakistani Hindus was found dead in a rentedfarmhouse in the city of Jodhpur in India’s Rajasthan state.
“I knew that family, and most of them were educated. But there are noopportunities for any outsiders in India,” Lal told Anadolu Agency.
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“The fact is they were living in miserable conditions and suffered fromextreme poverty and there were dangerous threats to their lives.”
He said more than 28,000 Pakistan Hindus are stranded in Jodhpur waiting toreturn home.
