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While NGOs and human rights activists have been pulling out all the stops to help the Pakistani Hindus seeking refuge in India, the government has poured cold water on their hopes for asylum in India.

In a written reply in the Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Home Mullappally Ramachandran, said: "All such Pakistani nationals who have come to India on group pilgrimage visa will have to return to Pakistan... within the visa validity period or the short extended period allowed in specific cases."

Help has been pouring in for these illegal migrants seeking sanctuary in India days after Headlines Today brought their plight to light.

People offer help to Pakistani migrants

NGOs, lawyers, professors and artists have stepped in to bring relief to the 113 Pakistanis, living in a refugee camp in the national capital. They have arranged for food, sanitation and even education for them.

Even spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar met the refugees at their camp on Tuesday.

These Hindus from Pakistan were victimised and persecuted in their country following which they came to India with no plans to go back. Some human rights activists have also come to their rescue.

Human Rights Defence secretary general Rajesh Gohna said, "We have moved the application for extension of visa for them and now we are going to meet the chief visa officer on the first (December 1). Our group could go there along with their representatives. We will request the government of India that their visas should be extended and long-term visa should be granted to them and subsequently citizenship should also be granted to them."

The refugees were overwhelmed with the support they have been getting and made no bones that they want asylum in India.

One of the refugees, Shanti Devi, said, "We are surviving because of help from such people. We have food and shelter. But now we need help from the government."

"Yes, we used to study there," said a girl in reply to a question, adding, "We were not taught Hindi or even Sindhi. They used to hit us a lot."


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While the center is turning a blind eye to BD immigrants getting ration card & voter ID in India, it is actively rejecting asylum to Pakistani Hindus. I guess the Govt wants to portray how "secular" it is :tdown:
 
India should definately help them....and yes we don't need to send our kashmiri brothers to pakistan as someone said above...right now they are misguided but will come on track in some time.
 
Poor chaps now have nowhere to go.

Manmoahsn singh is not concerned about Indians be it hindu, muslim, sikh, christians how can one expect he will help some poor foreign souls.
 
i believe that we should help them...as a human we ought to...but the only thing am worried about is that it should not become a precedent ...we dont want more people even if they are hindus coming to India...we are already have a lot of people to feed...
 
GOI have no problem with 20 millions Bangladeshis living illegally In India, but snubs the few hundred Pakistani Hindus who are basically religious refugees.
 
Funny how UPA has no problem with fundamentalist illegal Bangladeshis living in India while Hindus and possibly Buddhists of Pakistan are being ignored.

Secularism; it never fails to prove you right. :lol:

I am better off being called a fundamentalist Buddhist, if this is called secularism. To hell with such secularism.
 
Pakistani Hindus are welcome in india .Nobody gives a F about law and visa in India.Pay some bribe if you are caught.

To make room and not create strain on our economy, we must find ways to kick out the 20 million+ illegal fundo banglas living in our country first. Once they are bunted out (legal ones deputed on company requirements are fine), we could bring them in.

But don't expect that from Congress; their political life survives on non-Dharmic votes.
 
how pakistan treats it's citizens should not concern us. it is their internal affairs.
The bangladeshis have already crossed over, but that can't be an excuse to let in more refugees.
 

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