TYRANNY OF THE TIMES, THEN AND NOW ... 2 (PLIGHT OF THE HINDUS IN PAKISTAN)

The plight of the Pakistani Hindus is unbearable. The Hindus have since the formation of the State of Pakistan been undergoing systematic discrimination and the situation has gone from bad to worse over the years. Adolescent Hindu girls are randomly abducted and molested, force-converted and infrequently released only on realizing from their guardians a heavy ransom. More often than not, these girls are forever lost to their families, remaining untraced for life. Hindu property is looted by goons and hardly any legal action is taken against such heinous acts. Indian sacred texts such as the Bhagavad Geeta and the Guru Granth Sahib have been on many occasions been set on fire. Hanumanji's idol inside the temple has been set on fire. The population of the Hindus in Pakistan is dwindling and every year thousands leave Pakistan for India. The Hindus are ridiculed as being cow-worshippers and otherwise also treated as second-class citizens. The sheer arrogance of the Islamic clerics is intolerable and yet these hapless Hindus have to put up with all the insults heaped upon them, their so-to-say inferior Hindu culture and idolatrous inferior religion. There is no escape for them from this terrible torment as they have no recourse in terms of effective law protecting them or social activism guarding their rights. Pakistan is out and out an intolerant Islamic State that considers the kaffir (unbeliever in Islam) Hindu its worst enemy. Ghazwa-e-Hind or the final war against the infidel Hindu is being fought by Pakistan at every level, be it domestic persecution of the Hindus or terrorism across the border. The final agenda seems to be very clear---the mass extermination of the kaffir Hindu race barring those alone who will embrace Islam. Fearing forced conversion which is the order of the day in Pakistan, many Hindu families have fled their homes and sought refuge in India. And consider this my countrymen. They have left home and hearth for the sake of their religion, the honour of their age-old Vedic culture. Ought we not to support them in their plight? We must raise a voice so loud that our hapless sisters and brothers will get to know that they are not alone in this struggle for survival, that we are with them, always and forever. Jai Hind!