Pakistani Hindu Migrants

After facing backlash over the demolition of "encroachments" of temporary settlements (Kachchi basti) for Hindus displaced from Pakistan, Rajasthan Minister Pratap Khachariyawas on Thursday said that the officials will be taken to task who is "trying

Two years after 11 members of a family of Hindu migrants from Pakistan were found dead at a farm in Rajasthan's Jodhpur district, police are yet to conclude what drove them to take the extreme step.

The Pakistani establishment is exploiting the death of 11 migrant Hindus from the country in India to further its anti-India propaganda and a staged protest was held in Islamabad recently by people who claimed to belong to the Hindu community, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Thursday.

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Wednesday said he will order any kind of inquiry into the deaths of 11 members of a family of Pakistani Hindu migrants at a village in Jodhpur.

Autopsies on the 11 Pakistani Hindu migrants, found dead at a farm 100 km from Jodhpur, indicated the consumption of a poisonous substance, police said on Monday, pointing at the possibility of a mass suicide.

A day before the model code of conduct came into effect in Rajasthan, the BJP-led state government relaxed its policy for allotting residential plots to Pakistani Hindu migrants.

"We would much rather die than go back to Pakistan," said a Hindu migrant echoing the sentiments of many migrants who have come here in the last few days from Pakistan. The exodus of Pakistani Hindus is on the rise. In the last fortnight alone, a fresh batch of 350 migrants, including 150 children and 90 women, have arrived here.

After facing backlash over the demolition of "encroachments" of temporary settlements (Kachchi basti) for Hindus displaced from Pakistan, Rajasthan Minister Pratap Khachariyawas on Thursday said that the officials will be taken to task who is "trying

Two years after 11 members of a family of Hindu migrants from Pakistan were found dead at a farm in Rajasthan's Jodhpur district, police are yet to conclude what drove them to take the extreme step.

The Pakistani establishment is exploiting the death of 11 migrant Hindus from the country in India to further its anti-India propaganda and a staged protest was held in Islamabad recently by people who claimed to belong to the Hindu community, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Thursday.

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Wednesday said he will order any kind of inquiry into the deaths of 11 members of a family of Pakistani Hindu migrants at a village in Jodhpur.

Autopsies on the 11 Pakistani Hindu migrants, found dead at a farm 100 km from Jodhpur, indicated the consumption of a poisonous substance, police said on Monday, pointing at the possibility of a mass suicide.

A day before the model code of conduct came into effect in Rajasthan, the BJP-led state government relaxed its policy for allotting residential plots to Pakistani Hindu migrants.

"We would much rather die than go back to Pakistan," said a Hindu migrant echoing the sentiments of many migrants who have come here in the last few days from Pakistan. The exodus of Pakistani Hindus is on the rise. In the last fortnight alone, a fresh batch of 350 migrants, including 150 children and 90 women, have arrived here.