Maloy Krishna Dhar

Persecution of Christians in Pakistan

Posted on | September 5, 2009 | 47 Comments

I learnt from Richard Aldrich, professor of International Security, University of Warwick and an eminent authority on intelligence, that inquisitiveness about what cooks in neighbor’s pot and under his quilt was one of the primitive ingredients that went in making the science and art of intelligence.

Besides Jihadist upsurge, Pakistan is beset with several other ailments which have plagued its civil society across the board. These ailments are not well publicized and only occasionally Pakistani media and to a very little extent international media pay attention to these malaises. Let us visit our favorite neighbor Pakistan what is usually cooked in its pot, other than Talibani and Lashkar and al Qaeda broth. The global community is not well informed of what’s really cooking on the other darker areas of Minority bashing by the religious fanatics in Pakistan. They take advantage archaic Blasphemy Act and other medieval provisions introduced by Zia-ul- Haq and perpetuated by the Ulama community.

Let us focus attention on the beleaguered Christian community of Pakistan. Minority persecution is a trademark for most Pakistani sectarian militant organisation, especially the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and the Sipah Sahaba. When I say this, I equally castigate minority bashing by certain pro-Hindutwa chauvinists. But the scale of oppression against the Christians in Pakistan is appalling. This has developed as a pattern and all over Pakistan most minority religious groups; especially the Christians are systematically persecuted.

Recently I received three communications, one from NWFP and the others from somewhere near Lahore. The letters were from prominent Christians in two different provinces. I quote the letters sans the real names of the senders and their exact locations.


“I am feeling very pity and difficult from where should I start and for what I would start I/we are in such a vicissitudes which even have stuck the brain to think and act.  You may find this email very strange! But I/we are in Trauma.

Dear you are very well aware about the circumstances we are going through particularly one can imagine as a minority what would be our situation in this time (state of war) and one even do not know for what reason he/she has been assassinated.  Anyway we were and are not living but struggling to live or fighting for our survival.  Every second day brings something new in our country and we get in new crises namely War against Terror, political, judiciary, water, power, food, fuel and blab blab…; the law n order situation is never ever under control.  The Government supremacy is nowhere in the country and their transgressions have taken us further in worse situation.  I would say this is totally a potpourri Govt.  On the other end the inflation really has broken the back born of individual’s budget.

In the sequence of different issues raised the World Recognized Leader was assassinated in on 27 December 2007.  Which was not only shocked me but even to the whole world.  My very little daughter was about 3 years at that time and she said “Papa my friend (who even could not pronounce her name) Baibazeer Bhutto ki death hogai”.  I do not why but whenever my little use to se Benazir Bhutto on screen, she use to say “she is my friend”.

Anyways, latter Tehrik Nafaz-e-Shariat brought another trauma in the country; obviously that was situation like state in the state.  This killed hundreds of innocents who had nothing to do with and forced thousands to get displaced. On the other hands few anti Pakistani are having slogan for Azad Balochistan.  And on this they are killing the innocents rather target killing the Punjabi’s. 

You know I really get numb, stung by this, my grandfather came to XXX in year 1890 but yet we are not local of the area but domicile.  I heard from my aboriginals that once the Christian delegation raised this issue in year 1972 to be given status of local to the Govt. but some so called “Son of the Soils” declined by asking to provide your real identity and contribution in the freedom of Pakistan.  Anyways, many of the real patriots and true Pakistani know the contribution of the minority for this Country.

Being in this trauma from last five years I even have not taken my kids for outing rather would say simple outing i.e. for hotelling in the town to avoid any misshape,   But for how long? Now we are getting sick.  Every second day tell us that how insecure we are here by hearing a news of bomb blast and firing rocket launcher.  When we do not here news of any Bomb blast, my daughter asks me “Papa Aaj koi Dhmaka Nahi huwa”

You know what? This is very first time that the schools have been closed for summer vacations from Aug 1 to 17.  Usually it gets close in July every year.  The main reason is that in most of the schools not even offering their National Anthem in assembly because they are threatened by some XXX army.   And due to this Govt. close the school to avoid misshape.  We are so week that even can’t celebrate our Independence Day.   Most of the institutes have raised their boundary walls from 6ft to 10ft by taking preventive security measures.

So the Govt. just avoided the situation forced to give summer vacations in such a time so that we as a Nation in schools/colleges would not celebrates our Day of Independents on 14th August in particular Province. This all is ridiculous to me; I cannot take my kids out for enjoying the independence day, playing for anything; even before going to church one is also give thinking that we are putting ourselves in risk or not.  I would not say who are but whoever is killing the innocents and killing against the name of racial discrimination is not right.  Nobody think as a human being and what our religions tell us about Humanity.
Christians are openly humiliated, their women abducted and their churches defiled. We are afraid of holding any open religious function. The rifle wielding goons threaten to loot our homes unless we pay them handsomely. We have to buy our breath, leave aside bread.

You must have heard the killing of innocents in Gojra, hundreds of home fired and many women were raped few of them yet missing (which not being highlighted in the news).  The BIBLE was burnt, if QURAN is a Holly Book than Bible is too.  Why they do not drag those who burnt the BIBLE.  Why they do not apply blasphemy law on those.  Are they supreme? I have not seen such Muslims in my whole life rather they are beasts.  What Govt. was doing, neither Police nor any other force intervene and stop the so called Muslims to stop the killing and brutal act.  What (ASAW PBUH) said “if we save one life we safe whole human being” and “if we kill one human being we kill whole humanity.  I do not know that what I have written is having any sequential detail or not but I have one thing in my mind I do not want my family to live for survival but to live the life at the fullest….

…It seem quite awkward to say and ask such thing which might be beyond your limit but what to request.  Dear living in this entire situation from years and years, I get tired and see no future of my family.  Sending kids to school create worries if they would return home safe and sound.  If visiting the market for grocery and commodities we fear to get the essential item and reach home as early as possible.  But in the night while going for sleep again threats comes in mind if someone shoot rocket launcher “God forbidden” would lend on our home roof; than?

 There is one option left to get rid of this situation is to migrate; which again people/person like me cannot afford.  But the Big Fishes of our Country easily move and having dual nationalities.  I do not have money in the bank to show, I might would have it if would involved in Bribery. 

 So the only option left to me is to sale myself and my family (even in this country we have been sold to IMF/World Bank) to someone aboard.  So that he/she can keep us as slave (we are here slaves and minority too) at least we would be secure.  No fear of landing of rocket launcher, bomb blast.  My kids would be able to play whatever they want and move freely elsewhere. I do not if this would be possible for you or not but truly asking you to kindly … kindly do forward this email to some major news papers, George W. Bush, Obama and Clinton and the parliamentarians and to some Churches too.

With Best Regards and God Bless You…”

I have edited this letter for ensuring safety of the writer. The other letter from somewhere near Lahore is more pathetic. In this case also I have edited heavily to protect identity of the sender.

“Sir, we read you regularly and derive inspiration. But village Korian on July 30 and in Gojra on August 10, 2009, where Christian homes were attacked, burnt, their women raped and nearly 15 Christians were killed including four women and children. All because, the Sipah Sahaba and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Al Qaeda gangs alleged that we had burnt pages of the Koran. The raiders numbering 500 were armed with sword, Kalashnikovs, pistols and they fired in the air to scare the Christians. My neighbour ZZZ was dragged out from his home and was beheaded in front of his children. His wife was grabbed by some militants and taken away. We do not know about her as yet.

The police standing nearby did not do anything. As you know this part of Punjab is the strongest hold of Jhangvi and Sipah Sahaba. They openly move with arms and threaten the Christians and Hindus. The real intention of the militants is to evict us from our land and grab the same. They looted 15 shops run by the Christians and took away four motorbikes.

One of the raiders threw petrol soaked torch on at least 5 homes of Christians. One woman of about 40 was raped on the open street. They raised slogans: Allha hu Akbar, Jiahil Christan murdabad, Pakistan for Islam etc…They plundered most valuables and desecrated the Holy Bible by urinating on them.

I am ashamed to mention that over 8 Christian women were raped in the open and a girl child who protested against molestation of her mother was killed with a spear. Punjab and Islamabad governments are giving only lip services. Sir, please bring our plights to the notice of the broader world as you have wider readership…”

What really happened on 10th August, 2009 was included in the letter vividly. To summarize, the Muslim militants belonging to Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Sipah Sahaba came from Jhang side. The Jhang-Maghiana belt in Punjab is the cradle of jihadist Islam. This belt has now become a refuge for the Talibanis and al Qaeda cadres. The area is dominated by the Markaz-ud- Dawa and its militant outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba. Both the Jhangvi and Taiba outfits are intricately connected to Jaish-e-Mohammad (Multan area) and the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan and al Qaeda units in the province. Lahore and Islamabad may not agree, but the fact remains that most parts of Punjab has been radicalized and the militants are eager to either convert the Hindus and the Christians or drive them out.

A map of Gojra area, near Jhang and Lahore would show that it is not a remote village. It is on a main road and there are administrative infrastructures nearby.

GOJRA LOCATION

GOJRA LOCATION

It leaves no doubt from the second letter that the attack was preplanned and there no desecration of Quran. The attack was inspired by hatred against Christian minorities who are equated with the hated Americans.

These two communications from beleaguered minority citizen of Pakistan help opening up the can of worm-box in which the minorities in Pakistan are forced to live and periodically subjected to rapine, arson, murder and mayhem.

Authentic observers commented that the police held back as 75 homes and 2 churches were burnt down. The rampant aggressors lay before emergency services such as the fire and ambulance teams preventing them from reaching the homes in which Christians were roasted alive. A few weeks before the Gojra incident the Muslim militants attacked Christian homes at Kasur, near India Pakistan border.

Another mail from Kasur, on Amritsar and Lahore road conveyed no less a pathetic situation of the Christian and Hindu minorities in the area. The writer conveyed in August 2009, “Only a week back a crowd of 150 armed Muslims reached our village in the outskirts of Kasur from where the police post is only half a kilometer away. Our village XXX Walla on Kasur Deepalpur road has a large number of Muslim populations. The raiders herded us at one place, assaulted some of our leading people and said that we should vacate the village immediately and go over to relief camps and that was the order of the Sipah Sahaba. On way back they torched two homes and carried away a 30 year old lady. She has not returned to village so far…”

The President and the Interior Minister of Pakistan assured adequate help and protection to the Christians in Pakistan. Minority Affiars Minister Shabaz Bhatti visited the Gojra spot of carnage but the Christian inhabitants of Gojra and Sangla are still being threatened by the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Sipah Sahaba activists. In spite of such lip services the ground realities are different. According to a PTI dispatch from Islamabad, August 18, 2009 over 2000 thousand Christians were evicted from their lands. “Hundreds of Pakistani Christians are living in tents in Islamabad for the past three months, and most of them claimed they were evicted off their lands without warning by the government citing their religion, a news report has said. They are not war refugees, not displaced by violence; rather they believe they’re here because they are Christian,” the CNN reported.

“Nearly 3,000 Christians have ended up living in tents for the past 3 months. According to the report, they alleged the government kicked them off their land without warning: only because they are Christian. The report said people are dying of poverty and their living conditions are said to be quite pathetic.”

Despite claims by Zardari the Christian population in Pakistan lives in mortal fear of being attacked any time by the Muslim militants on flimsy and cooked up charges of blasphemy. Some Pakistani commentators ascribe growing hostility against the Christians as fundamentalist reaction to US war in Afghanistan and indiscriminate Predator rocket attacks against Pakistani civilians in Swat and Waziristan. They argue that large number of jihadis have taken shelter in the interiors of Punjab and Sind and certain areas of Balochistan. By attacking Christians they try to avenge US attacks on innocent people. However, the salient point remains unanswered: Pakistan is a willing partner of the USA. It is equally responsible for US Predator attacks. Therefore, it is incumbent on the government to protect all minorities, be it the Christians, Sikhs in Swat, and other areas of NWFP. The plight of the Hindu minority is equally distressing in Sind, NWFP and Punjab.

What happened in the aftermath is stranger. Punjabi police have issued warrants for the arrest of the Bishop of Faisalabad and 128 other Christians, charging them with ‘conspiracy’ in the Gojra incident. The FIR was filed against Rt. Rev. John Samuel, the Church of Pakistan’s Bishop of Faislabad and 100 others. It was said to be out of revenge for accusation against police for standing as mere witness when the Gojra carnage took place. Some Pakistani media alleged that a website managed by the Christians, www.pakistanchristianpost.com/voting_result.php?id=51 was taking poll in favour of a separate province for the Christians of Punjab who constitute about 18% of the population. These are wild allegations.

On Augusts 27 The Taliban of Pakistan has kidnapped 8 Christians in South Waziristan according to reports released by political agent of Waziristan Agency.

The Christian were traveling in a truck from North Waziristan to South Waziristan when Taliban stopped them few miles away from Razmak, where they were living from decades. The Christian, Hindus and Sikhs have left tribal area when Taliban imposed protection tax on minorities in January 2009.The Sikhs and Christians were allowed to stay in tribal area after paying ’Jizia” but majority left Taliban controlled FATA and migrated to other parts of Pakistan. The Sikhs and Hindus decided to go to India which brought Protection Tax issue in the media. The recent abduction of 8 Christians have created wave of fear among their relatives living in Punjab and NWFP. There was abduction of 7 Christian from a Church in vicinity of Peshawar University but they were released by Taliban Commander Mangal Shah with a deal from government after two days.

Pakistan has an approximate Christian population of 2, 800, 000 (2008), nearly 1.6% of the population, of which 50% each belong to Roman Catholic and Protestant denominations. Rev. Thomas Valpy was appointed as the first Anglican Bishop of Lahore in 1877. Since then the foreign and indigenous Christians have contributed in the building of the peoples of the Punjab and Indus valley.
Since the creation of Pakistan the Christians have been subjected to discrimination but the trend gained momentum during the regime of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and Zia-ul-Haq. Total Islamisation of Pakistan had converted the Punjab region to the main jihadist producing bowl. In recent times Islamist zealots are everywhere even intimidating the ordinary civil society.

In October 2001 after US invasion of Afghanistan following 9/11 the Muslim militants raided a Church and killed 15 Christians all around Pakistan. According to local Christians of Sind, Punjab, Balochistan and NWFP more than 30 Christians were killed but the government of Musharraf suppressed the incidents. In the same year 5 business establishments of the Christians were plundered in Sind and Punjab.

On September 25, 2002 Muslim militants, suspected to be members of Sipah Sahaba raided a Christian locality in Karachi and killed 7 Christians shooting all of them in head from point blank range. After some initial outcry the case was forgotten by the provincial administration. In fact, since 9/11 there have been thirty-six Christians killing in 6 separate attacks against Christians and their schools, churches and villages (up to 2003 figure). It is argued by some Pakistani Muslims that a rising tide of Islamic fundamentalism amongst the uneducated poor and their frustration at the plight of Muslims elsewhere in the world leads these militants to lash out against the easy targets within their own country who happen to profess the same religion that is professed by their avowed enemy- the West.

In February 2005 several churches and schools managed by the Christians were attacked and destroyed in Punjab, Sind and NWFP in protest against publication of a controversial cartoon of Prophet Mohammad by a Danish cartoonist. In Hyderabad, Gujranwala and Sheikhupura areas about 10 priests and chaplains were mercilessly beaten.

In November 2005 about 3000 Muslim militants attacked the Christian localities of Sangla Hills (in Jhang area). The raiders were armed with firearms and other lethal weapons. They were led by a fanatic from Muridke-the headquarters of Lashkar-e-Taiba. They burnt down churches belonging to Roman Catholic, Salvation Army and Baptist denominations and destroyed about 25 Christian homes. Sangla is not a village. It has emerged as an industrial area and the Christians are comparatively affluent.

Again in August 2006 the Muslim militants attacked churches and homes in a village near Lahore over alleged land dispute. The raiders wanted to evict the Christians and grab their lands. In the incident 2 Christians were killed.

The Christian Medical Superintendant posted at Bannu was kidnapped by the militants on charges of encouraging music, modern dress and free behavior of women of the area. After prolonged negotiation he was released.

The Bishop of London and the Grand Mufty of Egypt had condemned the Gojra and other attacks. A representative demonstration of the Pakistani Christians before the Pakistani High Commission in London on August 14, 2009 submitted the following demands:

= “We want to see the total abrogation of the unjust Blasphemy Law 295 Section B and C. This act does not even require evidence to be enacted almost encouraging people to use the act to settle personal differences.

= We want equal rights for people from Minority Religious groups so that they can vote in normal elections and stand for parliament and other government positions. Currently, Christians can only vote for Christians in provincial positions allocated to our faith.

= We want the Pakistani Government to apologize for years of discriminatory practice, supporting of intolerance and unjust prison sentences for people from religious minority groups.

= We want the Pakistani Government to allow more people from diverse faiths to seek employment within the Police, Army and other civil service posts.

= We want the Pakistani Government to address the imbalance of opportunity and unequal distribution of wealth for religious minorities.

= We want justice to be served on the intolerant people that have wrecked the lives and been involved in the.”

= We want justice to be served on the intolerant people that have wrecked the lives and been involved in the.”

Based on such developments the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) and the State Department had declared Pakistan a “country of particular concern.”

Minority bashing, be it Hindus, Christians, Sikhs, Ismailis, Shias, Ahmadias are rampant in Pakistan. The Pakistani religious leaders proclaim that only purest form of Sunni Islam of the Hanafi. Salafi schools would be permitted. They forget that the founding father of their nation was a Khoja (shia) Muslim.

Sipah Sahaba (banned) is considered as the mother of all jihadi tanzeems in Pakistan. Its growth all over Pakistan is alarming. Well known Sipah leader Maulana Azam Tariq assumed leadership in 2003. There was nothing secret about him. He can be heard on UTube under the rubric of Radd-e-Shiat (refutation of the Shia) and read what he had to say about Ahmedias and Ismailis too on ahnaf.com. And people believe in what he says to them.

Violence by the Sipah had erupted in Khairpur (Sind) and spread to Gilgit where one can expect more trouble in the coming days. Impact will also be felt in such cities as are home to big Shia settlements: Dera Ismail Khan, Parachinar, Gilgit, Jhang, Kohat, Hangu, and other far-off places where the writ of the government is weak.

Concern about the rising strength of the Sipah in Jhang, its place of birth, has already been raised in Parliament. MNA Sheikh Waqqas Akram complained about the comeback of the Sipah there, in the context of its show of force against the Christians of Gojra in Toba Tek Singh.

In Sind, the followers of the Sipah have gone around forcing the shops to close. Trains have been stopped in the railway stations of the province and track damaged in a planned manner. Foreseeing the trouble, the administration in many districts has closed down schools for three days and the matriculation exam has been stopped in the middle.

In Karachi, the mobs were out with sticks in hand, breaking everything in sight, including a bus and a car which they later burned. There was heavy fighting and exchange of fire in Judia Bazaar and its adjoining markets in Karachi, pointing to the sensitive areas where the factions have already drawn their battle lines.

A Sipah lawyer-cleric was killed in the city a fortnight ago. Sipah workers took positions in two domes of the mosque in the area and opened fire on the streets. Karachi is home to the most powerful madrassas of the faith to which the Sipah belongs.

In faraway Gilgit where a majority Shia population makes the region vulnerable, sectarian clashes occurred in the aftermath of Hyderi’s death, the trouble-makers obviously assuming that the murder was committed by the other side. If the fire spreads, Gilgit will be the one place where most violence can be expected.

The Pakistan Ulema Council has condemned the killing of Allama Ali Sher Hyderi (former Sipah leader) and has announced three days of mourning across the country. It thinks that the murder is a “conspiracy” to restart the sectarian war that Pakistan has been going through in the recent past. Some TV channels also took up the conspiracy theory — usually implicating India — for reasons of self-defence in the days to come when violence at the national level is expected. However, it is wrong to assume that sectarian violence is at low ebb. It is there in Dera Ismail Khan and Parachinar and is clearly one-sided against the Shia.

A lot of research is available on Sipah Sahaba because it is the mother of all jihadi organisations fielded by the state of Pakistan as “non-state actors” against India. Living in civil society, these organisations have injected violence into the lives of ordinary citizens.

In the past, the Sipah targeted the Shia and killed them inside mosques and imambargahs and the country shook under the intensity of the sectarian hunger for death. But then, one by one, most of the leaders of the Sipah were killed, including the father of Allama Ali Sher Hyderi; most of the clerics supporting the Sipah have been done to death too. And both sides engaged in this terrible war blame the state of Pakistan and vow revenge against it.


With the spread of Taliban and al Qaeda into the interiors of Sind and Punjab and the Northern Area Pakistan has been burdened with more onerous tasks. These fanatic jihadis are now likely to target minority religious groups with aggressive vigour. They have also formed groups of dacoits and underworld mafia to trade in contraband and drug. The drug money provides them the sinews of their campaign against the minority faiths. Pakistan and the US are now required to plan out strategies to combat these new forces inside its backyards. It is more imperative for the US to ensure that the Christian population is well protected as it apparently wants root in Pakistan for longer period, as in Iraq and Afghanistan. With increased US presence sectarian violence is likely to increase and the combined forces of the jihadis and the sectarians is likely to disturb the security ambience in the region.

Plight of the Christian, Hindu and Sikh minority should engage attention of the global human rights agencies and minority protection orgs of the United Nations. Mere denouncement by certain religious congregations in India and the US is not enough. The Indian Christians and media particularly have greater responsibilities. They have been very vocal over certain Hindu aberrations in Gujarat and Orissa. The Hindutwa orgs are now obsessed with Jinnah. The SGPC is battling over turf control outside Punjab. When would they wake up to the realities of “Secular Jinnah’s” Pakistan abusing its religious minorities? They remained silent when hundreds of Hindus were uprooted in Sind last year. The SGPC looked idiotically to the imposition of Jizya on the Sikhs in Swat region. They may now consider drawing attention of the global Christian orgs, Indian religious orgs and the media orgs towards trampling of the rights of the religious minorities in Pakistan.


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  4. Raut
    September 5th, 2009 @ 7:57 am

    I am sorry to say this.”I disagree with the sentence”
    “I equally castigate minority bashing by certain pro-Hindutwa chauvinists”

    Only there is a say that hindu bashing in india,have any one heared minority bashing.No way ,No chance.
    1) If there is a attack in mumbai then “Terror has no religion” but malegaon yet it is not proved but “Hindu terror”.
    2) Can you say any country in the world providing “hajj yatra”,Indian goverment is sepending nearly 500 crores money.Will the indian goverment ready to provide free service to “amarnath yatra”.
    3) Atheism means friendly to other religions but enemy to hindus.

    I come to your point of christians,
    Every one knows only there is a attack on karnataka.But howmany of us know why it happened,what motivated it.
    They issued pamplets of hate speech and bad sentences like a popular hindu goddess is a slut and other three hindu gods are lust. [ Even Arch Bishop of India itself in a debate in devil's advocate,refer youtube]

    Will you imagine if a Bajrang Dal issed this like pamplets to other religions about there god what will happen.
    I will say you what will,

    1) Hindus Bashing against minoritys.
    2)Hindus are suppressing others.
    3)Hindu Terrorists.
    4)Hindus Fundamentalist.
    5)Put them in Jail.
    6)Hang them publicly.
    7)Ban Bajrang Dal.
                  - Once you said,SIMI is hidden face of Gihad.Ok have we seen any portys in india including communists asked any ban on SIMI. But every Party said,protested,cryed,hunger strike to ban bajrang dal.
    8)Heart brokeing actions buy hindus Fanatics.
    9) Etc
         Note:This Etc itself contains many ects.

    The Truth is the fact which can not change whether others accept or not.What is said is the fact.
    The Truth is Hindus are being criticised for nothing,humiliated for nothing,Soon hindus are going to minority in the land and no one will be here ot speak for the innocent hindus.

    Pls note Maloy sir,My intention pure and not having any idea to harm you.If you think some of my words hurts you “I am Sorry”.
    Thank You

  5. Bentham Fisher
    September 5th, 2009 @ 8:46 am

    This is a revealing article. The world community of Christians should take up this with Pakistan and all aids to Pakistan should be stopped.

  6. Sayiid Akhtar Ahmad
    September 5th, 2009 @ 8:52 am

    You are unnecessarily harsh on Pakistan. The Christians are killing hundreds of Muslims all over the world in the name of war on terror. Why do not you condemn them?

  7. Dravid
    September 5th, 2009 @ 11:56 am

    Sayiid Akhtar Ahmad,

    Correction, Christians are killing radical muslims all over the world. Where as Radical Muslim Pakistan is killing innocent Christians.

  8. Raghu
    September 5th, 2009 @ 1:17 pm

    Nice to know what is happening in our favorite neighbour,but disturbing things.
    There core moto is to make the the world, A islamic world.

  9. Sultan Shahin Qadryi
    September 5th, 2009 @ 7:54 pm

    You are an anti_Muslim. Why are you trying to destroy Pakistan? Know you Hindus and Christians that Pakistan has got 120 atom bombs, Your India will be punished severely. America will be similarly punished. In India you treat Muslims as slaves and you speak of fate of Christians in Pakistan? Muslims of the world Unite to destroy Hindus, Jews and Christians. Treat us equally or we will dominate.

  10. Jonathan Guiter
    September 5th, 2009 @ 7:57 pm

    An excellent story. The US Christian bodies should react and stop aid to Pakistan.

  11. Bharat Nair
    September 5th, 2009 @ 10:11 pm

    Dhar ji,
    ““I equally castigate minority bashing by certain pro-Hindutwa chauvinists”

    Were you thinking of  pro hindutwa chauvinists like Swami Lakshmananda who “bashes” peoples of minority communities on the holiest day of Janmaashtami or else were you thinking of pro hindutwa chauvinists like Kashmiri pandits who for the last decades are constantly bashing peaceful minority communities?
    Regards
    Bharat

  12. Madhur Zaveri
    September 6th, 2009 @ 8:34 am

    Dear Sir,
    It is a great expose. But I regret that you have also mentioned about Hindutwa working against minorities. This is based on wrong interpretation of events in Gujarat and Orissa. I think, a person like you should write impartially on Orissa and Gujarat incidents. Congress and the Communists are maligning the Hindus.  Muslims are killing Hindus in Assam and Bengal.

  13. Lesile Hanni
    September 6th, 2009 @ 8:37 am

    We tune to Vatican radio. That is a good source about knowing about Christians in Pakistan, India and Bangladesh, as well as in other Muslim countries.  Please tune to Vatican radio. Incidentally are you a Christan?

  14. Namita Kakkar
    September 7th, 2009 @ 5:30 pm

    Are you a Christan Dhar? It is surprising you put Pakistan and Hindus on same footing. When did the Hindus persecuted the Muslims and Christians. Hindus are under attack. The Christians still feel they are the ruling class because a particular leader is Christian. Please stop abusing HIndus>

  15. Parvez Alam
    September 7th, 2009 @ 5:32 pm

    Shame you Dhar. You are blatantly anti-Muslim. You are a card holder of the RSS.  Stop your tirade against Pakistan. WE can look after our minorities. Stop killing Christians and Muslim in India

  16. Dravid
    September 7th, 2009 @ 8:43 pm

    I like it when these pakis, hindu fundoos join forces together to denounce rationality. Something common The only 1 thing uncommon between these twins is that one is a hindu fandoo and the other is a paki. Rest all characteristics and tendencies are same. Hindu fandoo is a occupier of India. Now a Paki also claims the same.

  17. Kamran
    September 8th, 2009 @ 12:20 am

    Mr Pervez Alam, Its true that Muslims have lost the ability to even see the wrong doings going deep inside with their brothers. They are blinded with the potion of discrimination and Victimisation. So the fault inevitably the world over is of the Kafirs.

  18. raut
    September 8th, 2009 @ 9:16 am
  19. Karaikal Peter
    September 8th, 2009 @ 4:47 pm

    It is not the question of Christians. It is the issue of minority hatred in Pakistan and minorities being suspected in India. Pakistan is determined  to kill most of the minorities. The global Christian community is aware of this. They are pressing Pakistan. What a pity not a single Hindu leader has so far talked about plights of Hindus in Pakistan and Bangladesh.

  20. Jonathan Guiter
    September 9th, 2009 @ 12:47 pm

    Some visitors are misreading the nice article. There is no Hindu Muslim issue involved. It is about Christians in Pakistan. I appreciate the expose.

  21. Maluk Meena
    September 10th, 2009 @ 8:26 am

    Today’s Times of Indiasays thousands of Hindus fleeing Taliban. Please write about hindu persecution.

  22. R.Venkatanarayanan
    September 10th, 2009 @ 5:57 pm

    Christianity is a global imperial power, not merely a religion. So is Islam. Killing each other is a common pastime for both of them. Violent confrontation between them is a historic fact. But as a Hindu in India I wish Christian conversion institutions keep in perspective what is happening to poor christian families in Pakistan, while formulating and executing their relationship with the concerns of Hindu majority in India. Christian missionaries in India keep on parroting that Christians are a small minority in India and need special protection. Firstly Christian population is deliberately and grossly understated in the Census of India. Secondly the clout of Christian institutions in India is enormous with very strong backing from overseas. Christianity and Islam own more land and property in India than Hinduism. Their imperial nature is nowhere so clear than in India. These thoughts may not constitute a comment on the contents of  Maloy’s very good article. But they put the Christian grievances in a proper perspective.

  23. Dravid
    September 10th, 2009 @ 7:26 pm

    R.Venkatanarayanan,

    Aryan Hindus have already taken our land. Now Christians and Muslims want it too. What is the problem? let these dogs fight together and die.

    we Indians will fight with the winner.

  24. Francis Jesudasan
    September 11th, 2009 @ 7:59 am

    I fail to understand why some visitor are giving the excellent write up on the plights of Christians in Pakistan? They are giving it Hindu color. Even yesterday some vandals damaged a church near Bangalore. What is out fault? We are parts of composite India. Why should Hindus have anything against us? We do not force anyone to convert. Willing conversion is not against law. Has any Hindu done any philanthropic work for the betterment of their coreligionists? Why crib when we try to serve the humanity?  

  25. Satish
    September 11th, 2009 @ 9:45 am

    Francis Jesudasan 

    Every one knows that is being done by missionarys and i know what justice niyogi said.

    ok, the reply is,

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8jm3y6xy3g&feature=related

  26. Satish
    September 11th, 2009 @ 9:46 am

    If ur a true cristian reply to this.

  27. Ali
    September 12th, 2009 @ 7:46 pm

    The measure of a nations strength and vibrancy of its national spirit is demonstrated by how the people who are the weakest on their society are treated. There is a lesson in what is happening in Pakistan for all the people of India. The constant bickering between the different provinces of Pakistan over their shared resources, the reports of the ill treatment of minorities are symptoms of the lack of unity of the people and the society which translates into the weakening of the nation as a whole.Is it any wonder that the United States treats the Northwestern Areas of Pakistan as its own backyard, killing people with drones(execution without any trial or jury, maybe getting a terrorist oncein a while but mostly killing innocents) and building an embassy which would even remind most observers as a renactment of the heyday of the British Raj. The American Ambassador to Pakistan is a viceoroy of the realm in all but in name and countries like Saudi Arabia dictate to the politicians of Pakistan at will showing the nations lack of strength. 

    The acts of certain parties in India sometimes seem to ape the policies implemented in Pakistan in terms of nation building focussing on a specific community and leaving others to their own fate or perpetrating acts of vioelnce to “keep them in their place”. This somehow seems to bely a visceral hatred towards the concept of secularism and the concept of equal nationality for all members of the country. This is manifested in opposition to all things secular(branding them as pseudo-secular) and all the symbols and personalities which stand for it, case in point eulogising Jinnah with a one point agenda of making Nehru look bad (latest manifestation of which is the Jaswant Singh episode in which a senior member of the BJP elevated Jinnah to be one among the pantheon of Indias great pre independence leaders, for which he was hurriedly kicked out). Notice that Christians in India too have not escaped the age old cycle of bashing a minority, the Muslims first and the Christians later, to polarize the Hindu vote and reap electoral dividends in order to gain power and the subsequent wealth, influence and other perks that come with it. Thus the gameplan becomes something to the order of excite the lower rung cadres to kill, loot and plunder while simultaneously making plans for legal defence of the would be criminals so that they will escape the reach of India’s inefficient, slow and  often ineffective legal system. Any political party in India knows that the votes usually go to the party seem to be siding on the side of their community and this cycle continues like clockwork and in sync with the electoral cycle in the different Indian states and sometimes on an all India basis.  

    Indians do not want foreign countries to have military bases in India to make a mockery of their independence, to have foreign military contractors like Blackwater or Xe killing Indians in oursuit of a foreign countries objectives and treating Indians as chattels and slaves. All this requires strenghtening the country by making people come together, not breaking apart the fabric of the society. Maybe this will be a silver lining a lesson to be learnt by Indians from these episodes in the neighbouring country that the slow process of disintegration by first vilifying the minorities and trying to create divisions does not stop only at that(case in point, Praveen Tagodia vilifying the Shankaracharya of Kanchi, Jayendra Saraswati,  for trying to mediate int he Ayodhya dispute and questioning his locus standi on the grounds of him being a Shaivite, which was robustly and strongly condemned by AB Vajpayee to his credit) and continues further and thus eventually weaking the nation and allowing foreigners to come in and exploit the situation further. The independence and sovreignity of this nation was hard won with tears, blood and sacrifice and should be bartered away by our own lack of unity.

  28. Kamal Poddar
    September 14th, 2009 @ 8:48 am

    You are so concerned with Christians. Why do not you turn eyes to Bangladesh where the minorities are reaped, killed and their properties forcibly taken away?  If you are a Bengali you should feel for Bengal. Have you any idea what the Musalmans are doing in about 5 districts in Assam and six districts in W. Bengal? They are getting majority and we are being evicted from our land. Read Hindu Samhati regularly. Do not live in fool’s paradise.

  29. Niladri Sarkar
    September 14th, 2009 @ 5:41 pm

    I agree with Poddar. Shed tears for minorities in Bangladesh.

  30. Zaved Kanuni
    September 14th, 2009 @ 5:42 pm

    Hey old friend. Why risk your life? Stop needling Pakistan

  31. Satish
    September 15th, 2009 @ 11:52 am

    Kamal Poddar

    I agree.

    This is the country where we worry about christians in pakistan but not hindus in bangladesh.
    NO one for bangladesh hindus b’cas he is a hindu.

  32. Lutfur Rahman
    September 15th, 2009 @ 5:55 pm

    I like it. Write something about minorities in Bangladesh.

  33. Dravid
    September 15th, 2009 @ 10:24 pm

    I wonder what Hindu Kamal Poddar and Hindu Satish are doing about their Hindu bhais in Bangladesh.

  34. David Murugan
    September 16th, 2009 @ 5:53 pm

    We appreciate your comments. Some people are unnecessarily communalising this. We have no big problem in India. In such vast and complex country minor disturbances are inevitable.

  35. Hassan Andrabi
    September 17th, 2009 @ 5:27 pm

    When you kill Muslims and Christians than it is alright. In Pakistan even the drop of a pin pains you. You appear to be a Hindu, Hindus are majority demons. Our Faith will uproot all blasphemy from Pakistan.

  36. Dravid
    September 18th, 2009 @ 9:23 am

    Hassan Andrabi,

    Are you justifying your killings?

  37. Inder Raj
    September 19th, 2009 @ 12:54 pm

    Why are you silent about China’s threat to India? Are you a Commie Bangali? Write something.

  38. Xavier Pedro
    September 22nd, 2009 @ 8:54 am

    Dear Sir,
    I appreciate your unbiased report on Christians in Pakistan. This only proves that Islam is an intolerant religion and it makes people absolute fanatic. How are they going to survive if they challenges the major civilizations of the world? With little bit of intolerance amongst fringe Hindus we a re safe in India. I also regret that some fanatic Christians bring out offensive literature against Hindus. This we are trying to stop.

  39. Stefano Putranzi
    September 27th, 2009 @ 8:51 am

    Dear Dhar,
    We in Vatical are converned with the fate of the Christians in Pakistan, Sudan, Kenya, Indonesia, Malysia etc cpuntries. Thanks for drwaing international attention to the problem. Pray Jesus bless you. 

  40. am
    October 1st, 2009 @ 4:38 am

    Mr. Dhar has been called or suggested to be a Commie and a RSS person here by some people. But all he is doing is presenting the facts – if you have a baised and radical opinion you will view his arguments in the way you want to. Just because you fail to understand his assesment of facts and situtaion he does not become a Commie and RSS guy. He is only urging baised and radical people like you to be understand the facts that minorities in India are much better off than in most parts of the world. For all the extreme hindus, muslims and christans .. please be rational and create new conflicts .. it wont help anyways cause most people do not agree with either one of you.

  41. Christians in Pakistan Attacked for Religious Beliefs « #Alertpak#
    October 1st, 2009 @ 8:05 pm

    [...] more details please read : http://maloykrishnadhar.com/persecution-of-christians-in-pakistan Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)Christians Begin FleeingTelling it like it is [...]

  42. mijanurn rahaman
    October 1st, 2009 @ 8:34 pm

    Your article :“Persecution of Christians in Pakistan” has been published under courtsey in http://alertpak.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/christians-in-pakistan-attacked-for-religious-beliefs/. Please write something about the Persecution of Hindus in Pakistan and Bangladesh. From Your profile We came to know that you born at Kamalpur, Bhairab-Mymensingh in East Bengal, erstwhile East Pakistan. You never born in East Bengal. East Bengal was confirmed with the establishment of West Bengal by Dr. Shyama Prasad Mookerjee in 1947. Always You Hindu people try to skip to matter of Persecution of Hindus in this Subcontinent. My Hindu Wife also always nagging me not to raise any voice in favour of Persecuted Hindus in Pak. I Don’t understand the psychology of pity Hindus.
    Please give priority to draw an extensive picture of pursecution of Hindus in Pakistan and every where in this sub-continent. Insh’allah.  

  43. Gulistan Khan
    October 4th, 2009 @ 8:58 pm

    To

    Mijanur @ 41 >> below.

    Hi Mijanur ! If you don’t mind, I would like to tell you a secret thing.

    I have also my Hindu Wife being Hindustani from Lucknow.

    In my opinion…

    Bengali Hindu Girls are idle.

    Tamil Hindu Girls are sexy.

    Punjabi Hindu Girls are Possessive.

    Keralian Hindu Girls are extrovert in disguise.

    Hindustani Hindu Girls are extravagant.

    Marathi Hindu Girls are too much moody.

    North East Hindu Girls are lavish.

    The Tribal Hindu Girls are not easy to afford.

    But none of them are happy after marrying with a Muslim Boy, even after a long foreplay before marriage.

    This is a mystery to me that these Hindu Girls behave odd after marriage and oppose everything we want to do. The Hindu girls are never satisfied with their Muslim Counter parts. Really, always they are nagging us to stop our normal activities. But it is not possible to stay always with them to satisfy their whims.

    Anyway, in #Alertpak# blog some serious reports of Persecution of Hindus are published recently. If the blog is yours, please do all of your activities carefully. The fundamentalist Muslims never accept such propaganda against Islam, though you tell the 100% truth.

    Really Pakistan has been made as a hell to all the minorities like Hindus, Sikhs, Christians and for the general Muslims who does not believe in Taliban or Islamic Fundamentalism.

    I am sure, that Mr. Maloy K Dhar, the Spy Master and Master Writer for thought provocation to the new generation and serious readers, will surely throw a flood light upon the issue of Persecution of Hindus in Pakistan in near future. Till then we may get some news from  http://alertpak.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/hindu-exodus-from-pakistan-conventional-torture-upon-hindus-by-pak-terrorists-forceful-conversion-of-hindus-in-pakistan-rape-of-hindu-women-by-talibans/
    about the same matter.

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