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Shikhar Dhawan Pays Surprise Visit To Pakistani Hindu Refugees, Gifts Them Cricket kit

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The Pakistani Hindu refugees staying near Majlis Metro Station in Delhi received a pleasant surprise on Saturday morning when India star Shikhar Dhawan paid them a visit. The cricket superstar visited the place to help the refugees during these tough times of pandemic.

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Shikhar Dhawan gifted the locals portable toilet and also spent some time with them. The left-handed batsman also gifted the children cricket kits before leaving the refugee camp. According to report, he also motivated the children to play cricket and make a name for themselves.

After distributing the portable toilets and the cricket kit, he sat with the locals and interacted with them. The delighted locals also made sure to give Shikhar Dhawan a hero’s welcome.

Shikhar Dhawan, meanwhile, has not played for India since the Bengaluru ODI against Australia in March. He suffered a shoulder injury while fielding during that match and consequently missed the tour of New Zealand. He was named in the ODI team for the series against South Africa in March but the series was postponed in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

International cricket will finally resume later this month when England and West Indies lock horns in a Test series. The series will start from July 8 in Southampton. As far as India are concerned, the BCCI is yet to give any update on when will the team return to action.

As of now, the BCCI is completely focused on conducting the IPL which was scheduled to take place between March 29 and May 17. As per latest reports, the tournament could be held in UAE or Sri Lanka.

https://cricketaddictor.com/cricket...u-refugees-gifts-them-toilet-and-cricket-kit/
 
Good gesture. Helping vulnerable people is always a good thing (doesn't matter what religion).
 
Afridi should reciprocate by meeting with Indian Muslim refugees. Are they staying somewhere in Lahore? :smith
 
At least they are alive and their daughters aren’t being forcibly converted to Islam.

Have you been to Pakistan? Apart from odd cases, I don't really see that happening. No point spreading fabricated, fake news. And they are alive in Pakistan too, there are many Hindus in Sindh.
 
At least they are alive and their daughters aren’t being forcibly converted to Islam.

Lol how ludicrous Think you are getting pakistan mixed up with the other neighbours who india is best friends with at the moment
 
Have you been to Pakistan? Apart from odd cases, I don't really see that happening. No point spreading fabricated, fake news. And they are alive in Pakistan too, there are many Hindus in Sindh.

Yes. I went to Pakistan last August. What you need to understand is that this is not a small problem. Every year, hundreds of Hindu girls are forcibly converted to Islam and then married off to Muslims men. Just two days ago, a 14 year old Hindu girl was kidnapped and then converted to Islam.

There is a video of the minor girl where she is seen and heard cursing being born in Pakistan. She goes on to curse Islam too.

I would suggest you to read more instead of spending time on PP. Thanks!
 
Afridi should reciprocate by meeting with Indian Muslim refugees. Are they staying somewhere in Lahore? :smith

Hardly any Indian muslim take refugee in Pakistan. Though they sometime do drama of India becoming intolerant , 'darr ka mahol hai' etc. but in reality hardly anyone goes anywhere. I mean we have live examples of Adnan Sami, Tarek Fateh etc. who moved to India but yet to hear anyone from our side moved there. I mean look at Amir Khan...since 2016 poor guy is planning to leave India but for some reason not doing it. Same goes for likes of Arundhati Roy, Rana Ayyub, Swara Bhaskar etc regularly spread venom and hate India to the last breath but just dont want to leave.
 
Hardly any Indian muslim take refugee in Pakistan. Though they sometime do drama of India becoming intolerant , 'darr ka mahol hai' etc. but in reality hardly anyone goes anywhere. I mean we have live examples of Adnan Sami, Tarek Fateh etc. who moved to India but yet to hear anyone from our side moved there. I mean look at Amir Khan...since 2016 poor guy is planning to leave India but for some reason not doing it. Same goes for likes of Arundhati Roy, Rana Ayyub, Swara Bhaskar etc regularly spread venom and hate India to the last breath but just dont want to leave.

That is because India is a shining democracy. The one beaming light in a world of chaos. Numero uno in the list of first world countries.
 
Afridi should reciprocate by meeting with Indian Muslim refugees. Are they staying somewhere in Lahore? :smith


Right now? Nope. Right now they're being too busy being thrown in drains and burnt alive or beaten to death on the streets by the Police in India.
 
Have you been to Pakistan? Apart from odd cases, I don't really see that happening.

Human Rights Commission of Pakistan report, over 1,000 non-Muslim girls are forcibly converted to Islam every year.

https://thediplomat.com/2019/03/how...es-blasphemy-lynching-and-forced-conversions/

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With 200M population, you are not going to see it happening yourself, but 1000 each year seems like a large number and not isolated case. Awareness of problem should be the first step for all of us otherwise we can't do anything to improve the situation.
 
Hardly any Indian muslim take refugee in Pakistan.

That hardly means that they are not descriminated in India. Also, seeking refugee status is not just due to descrimination, economy also plays a part. Any claim about minority not facing descriminiation in India is wrong.

It's not a measuring contest. No one has any control in where you are born and who are your parents. That's why all of us should try to create a world where people don't suffer due to being born in certain family.
 
That hardly means that they are not descriminated in India. Also, seeking refugee status is not just due to descrimination, economy also plays a part. Any claim about minority not facing descriminiation in India is wrong.

It's not a measuring contest. No one has any control in where you are born and who are your parents. That's why all of us should try to create a world where people don't suffer due to being born in certain family.

There is absolutely no discrimination against minorities in India. Maybe sitting in United States you are judging based on media reports but ground reality is totally different. The only thing that has changed though is the minority appeasement that used to happen under the garb of vote bank politics during congress rule has stopped. Few not able to terms with this and are mistaking no minority appeasement as discrimination.

And no...India muslims dont leave India not bcoz of economic reasons. I mean likes of Amir Khan and Nasiruddin Shah are millionaires...so money is the least of their concern. They dont leave India because they know they enjoy here every bit of freedom, human rights and freedom of speech here which they might not get else where.

Western media can say whatever they want about treatment of minorities in India but we know the ground reality. Wake me up when a minority actually have to leave India due to unfair treatment and take refuge in another country.
 
There is absolutely no discrimination against minorities in India. Maybe sitting in United States you are judging based on media reports but ground reality is totally different. The only thing that has changed though is the minority appeasement that used to happen under the garb of vote bank politics during congress rule has stopped. Few not able to terms with this and are mistaking no minority appeasement as discrimination.

And no...India muslims dont leave India not bcoz of economic reasons. I mean likes of Amir Khan and Nasiruddin Shah are millionaires...so money is the least of their concern. They dont leave India because they know they enjoy here every bit of freedom, human rights and freedom of speech here which they might not get else where.

Western media can say whatever they want about treatment of minorities in India but we know the ground reality. Wake me up when a minority actually have to leave India due to unfair treatment and take refuge in another country.

You seem lost or brainwashed by indian media. Lol no discrimination. Strange post.
 
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There is absolutely no discrimination against minorities in India. Maybe sitting in United States you are judging based on media reports but ground reality is totally different. The only thing that has changed though is the minority appeasement that used to happen under the garb of vote bank politics during congress rule has stopped. Few not able to terms with this and are mistaking no minority appeasement as discrimination.

And no...India muslims dont leave India not bcoz of economic reasons. I mean likes of Amir Khan and Nasiruddin Shah are millionaires...so money is the least of their concern. They dont leave India because they know they enjoy here every bit of freedom, human rights and freedom of speech here which they might not get else where.

Western media can say whatever they want about treatment of minorities in India but we know the ground reality. Wake me up when a minority actually have to leave India due to unfair treatment and take refuge in another country.

If this is not a trolling attempt then I genuinely pity you.
 
Hard Times Have Pakistani Hindus Looking to India, Where Some Find Only Disappointment

JODHPUR, India — By the time an angry Muslim mob stormed the local Hindu school and ransacked an adjacent temple a few weeks ago, many members of Pakistan’s dwindling Hindu minority had already been wondering whether it was worth trying to stay in a country where they felt increasingly unsafe.

In April, an angry mob vandalized a different Hindu temple, smashing its idols and chucking the pieces in an open sewer. In May, a Hindu veterinarian was accused of blasphemy in a neighboring town, his shop burned to the ground on the rumor that he was selling medicine wrapped in Islamic religious text.

More than 70 years after the partition of India and Pakistan, increasing violence in this officially Muslim country against the Hindu minority — about 1 percent of Pakistan’s 210 million people — is leading some Hindus to rethink the choices and fate that left their families on the Pakistani side of the line in 1947, residents say.

“Most of our elders at the time of partition did not migrate to India because they did not want to lose their businesses. But now they see it was the wrong decision,” said Kumar, a small-business owner from Ghotki District in Pakistan’s Sindh Province, where the attacks unfolded on Sept. 15. He asked that his last name be withheld, fearing mob violence.

“I am considering moving to India, where at least no one can kill me on the basis of my faith,” he said.

The trepidation among Pakistani Hindus is mirrored in many ways among the Muslim minority in India, where a campaign of Hindu nationalism led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party has left many Muslims feeling targeted. Sectarian fears in both India and Pakistan always peak during times of tension, and hostility between the neighbors is running particularly high right now.

In Pakistan, local officials say the pressure for Hindus to weigh moving to India has not been this great since a wave of sectarian violence led many to migrate in the 1990s, after a Hindu mob in India tore down a 16th-century mosque, the Babri Masjid, leading to retaliatory attacks in Pakistan.

The current migration is because of Mr. Modi’s open appeals to Hindu identity in India, they say, stripping the country of the secular framework it was founded on to give supremacy to their religion.

Since Mr. Modi’s election victory, Pakistani Hindus say they have had an easier time obtaining religious or pilgrimage visas to India, which they can then convert to long-term visas if they seek Indian citizenship.

Though the exact number of Hindu migrants is hard to pin down, indications of a wider push to go to India can be seen in the numbers of those long-term visas. In 2018, the Indian government granted 12,732 long-term visas, compared with 4,712 in 2017, and 2,298 in 2016, according to the Ministry of External Affairs. About 95 percent of long-term visas are granted to Pakistani Hindus, officials say.

Millions of Hindus remained in Pakistan when Britain carved out the state from the subcontinent to create a Muslim homeland at independence in 1947. They were unwilling to abandon their homes and businesses, like the millions of Muslims who ended up on the Indian side during partition, where now about 200 million live.

But angry sectarian mobs on both sides of the border sought to change those demographics at the nations’ birth, killing up to two million people and displacing 14 million. Trains packed with terrified Muslims and Hindus fleeing in opposite directions on the railway between India and Pakistan arrived full of corpses, passengers massacred mid-journey.

Train service between the countries was suspended when they went to war in 1965 and 1971, but eventually resumed. Last month, Pakistan suspended India-bound trains once again, protesting New Delhi’s move to strip the autonomy from the portion of Kashmir it controls, a Muslim-majority state the countries have long fought over.

Even among Pakistani Hindus who are considering going to India, there are very real reasons to hesitate.

Kumar is one who is torn. Though he was shaken by the recent violence in his hometown, he said he was still reluctant to pick up and leave when the trains start running again. He has said goodbye to neighbors who have migrated to India, only to see them return to Pakistan months or years later, disappointed.

Bhagchand Bheel is one of the disappointed. When he migrated to India in 2014, he was grateful to leave the violence and pressure of Karachi, Pakistan’s commercial hub. He boarded the Thar Express to Zero Point Station, the last stop before the border, where he and his family lugged their bags by foot into India, settling in a camp in the city of Jodhpur.

He was among his people, he thought, and could finally be free. But he is of a lower caste, and when he tried to enter a Hindu temple, he was barred entry by the priest because of it, he said. And when a friend tried to drink from the community water well, he was physically assaulted by upper caste Brahmins who accused him of polluting it.

“In Pakistan, the only thing that matters is if you are Hindu or Muslim,” said Mr. Bheel, whose last name is derived from his tribe. “Because we are Hindus, in Pakistan we were discriminated against. But in India, I face discrimination because I’m a Bheel.”

Like many Pakistani Hindus, Mr. Bheel migrated after Mr. Modi came to power in 2014, after a long campaign promoting Hindu nationalism.

Muslims in India say life has gotten progressively harder for them, too. Mr. Modi’s government is accused of turning a blind eye to the scores of Muslim men lynched by Hindu mobs. When an 8-year old Muslim girl was gang raped and killed in Kashmir last year by Hindu men, local police officers allegedly helped cover up the crime.

But despite the discrimination Muslims face in India, they do not tend to migrate to Pakistan in the numbers their Hindu counterparts in Pakistan do. Indian Muslims tend to migrate to the West instead.

In the Al Kausar Nagar migrant camp in Jodhpur, huts made out of thin, wispy branches, like birds’ nests, nestle in clusters, with quilts with vibrant Pakistani tribal designs hanging off their sides.

Bands of Pakistani Hindu women crouch over unfinished quilts, stitching away, hoping to sell them in the market to wealthier Indians. They complain that they receive little government assistance, siphoning what little electricity and water they can off municipal lines, and that the quality of public schooling for their children is not as good as it is in Pakistan, a main source of grievance for the many who migrated to give their children better opportunities.

This is not the Hindu paradise they had crossed the border to join, they said. This is not the India Mr. Modi promised them.

Mr. Bheel is wracked by doubt, the same doubt his grandfather had when he chose to keep the family in Pakistan during partition. Did he make the right choice?

He left his home and siblings in Karachi, trading a lucrative job as an administrator of a medical clinic there to live as a migrant in India. His medical diploma, one of the few possessions he brought with him, hangs proudly on a wall, although it is not valid in India. He struggles to make ends meet here.

“You take these decisions sometimes out of excitement for what your life could be,” Mr. Bheel said, his daughter cuddling beside him on a bench. “Then you arrive and realize it’s much different on the ground.”

Mr. Bheel looked on as his wife struggled to contain rainwater leaking from the ceiling, after a monsoon swiftly obliterated the sunny sky. Eventually she gave up, running out of pots and buckets.

“Maybe this wasn’t the right decision for me,” he said. “But maybe my children will look back and say, ‘My father made the right choice.’”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/05/world/asia/pakistan-hindu-india-modi.html
 
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There is absolutely no discrimination against minorities in India. Maybe sitting in United States you are judging based on media reports but ground reality is totally different. The only thing that has changed though is the minority appeasement that used to happen under the garb of vote bank politics during congress rule has stopped. Few not able to terms with this and are mistaking no minority appeasement as discrimination.

And no...India muslims dont leave India not bcoz of economic reasons. I mean likes of Amir Khan and Nasiruddin Shah are millionaires...so money is the least of their concern. They dont leave India because they know they enjoy here every bit of freedom, human rights and freedom of speech here which they might not get else where.

Western media can say whatever they want about treatment of minorities in India but we know the ground reality. Wake me up when a minority actually have to leave India due to unfair treatment and take refuge in another country.

You don't need to look at western media. Here are numbers reported in Indian media,

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UNHCR statistics though suggest that more and more Indians are seeking asylum and are being recognized as refugees. In 2018, there are currently 9,602 refugees and 51,812 pending cases of asylum seekers from India.

https://thewire.in/rights/the-world-is-already-recognising-refugees-from-the-hindu-rashtra

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You don't need to look at western media. Here are numbers reported in Indian media,

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UNHCR statistics though suggest that more and more Indians are seeking asylum and are being recognized as refugees. In 2018, there are currently 9,602 refugees and 51,812 pending cases of asylum seekers from India.

https://thewire.in/rights/the-world-is-already-recognising-refugees-from-the-hindu-rashtra

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The Wire is anti-national so it's basically equivalent to Western media or worse.
 
You don't need to look at western media. Here are numbers reported in Indian media,

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UNHCR statistics though suggest that more and more Indians are seeking asylum and are being recognized as refugees. In 2018, there are currently 9,602 refugees and 51,812 pending cases of asylum seekers from India.

https://thewire.in/rights/the-world-is-already-recognising-refugees-from-the-hindu-rashtra

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You need to learn a little bit more about wire and who runs that newspaper. I am not saying Indian minorities dont get attacked but those happens in silo. Similarly hindus get attacked as well, like Palgarh incident etc. But there is absolutely no discrimination towards minorities in India. Its a lie peddled by oppurtunists to tarnish the present govt. NRC/CAA all have their valid reasons and those are being debated many times before.

As I said before, show me one example...one big shot Indian celebrity left India and took refuge in other countries like Adnan Sami, Tarek Fateh etc did. I mean if I live in a country where I get mistreated....I would immidiately move out looking for a better future. Why you think..no one wants to leave India?

Media, agenda, propaganda - 3 words you need to remember. We Indians in India understand it quiet well.
 
The Wire is anti-national so it's basically equivalent to Western media or worse.

I see the same figures in other source,

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By 2018, this number rose to 51,769, reveals an IndiaToday.in analysis of data collected by the office of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

https://www.indiatoday.in/india/sto...al-asylum-in-past-10-years-1552869-2019-06-21

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As long as they are citing UNHCR, what differece it makes if they are taggged as Western or anti-nationals. In fact, many anti-nationals may play a huge part in highlighting problem areas which regular joe in country doesn't want to hear. Sure, many times they don't have good motives, but they play a part.
 
You need to learn a little bit more about wire and who runs that newspaper. I am not saying Indian minorities dont get attacked but those happens in silo. Similarly hindus get attacked as well, like Palgarh incident etc. But there is absolutely no discrimination towards minorities in India. Its a lie peddled by oppurtunists to tarnish the present govt. NRC/CAA all have their valid reasons and those are being debated many times before.

As I said before, show me one example...one big shot Indian celebrity left India and took refuge in other countries like Adnan Sami, Tarek Fateh etc did. I mean if I live in a country where I get mistreated....I would immidiately move out looking for a better future. Why you think..no one wants to leave India?

Media, agenda, propaganda - 3 words you need to remember. We Indians in India understand it quiet well.

Let's run with you scenario of ZERO minority refugees seeking aylum from India. It's not true and it can be verified with cursury glance, but let's stick with this assumption. Using it to say that there is no descrimination against minory is not a good argument.

African American don't escape USA to claim refugee status in other countries. Using this data point to prove that there is no descrimination agaiant African American in USA will be wrong.

People flee their homeland and venture into foreign countries as refugees due to vast difference in economic oppurtunities and other times when real situations of unknowns in foreign countries are still better than staying in their home land. You could be descriminated and it may not be such a scale to make you leave your homeland. If you leave out fake refugees, not many people leave their homeland easily. They need to have a huge large enough descrimination to leave.

Point is you can be descriminated like AA in USA and still not seek regugee status outside. It's not a proof for no descrimination.
 
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You don't need to look at western media. Here are numbers reported in Indian media,

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UNHCR statistics though suggest that more and more Indians are seeking asylum and are being recognized as refugees. In 2018, there are currently 9,602 refugees and 51,812 pending cases of asylum seekers from India.

https://thewire.in/rights/the-world-is-already-recognising-refugees-from-the-hindu-rashtra

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But in keeping with the spirit of the OP, how many of them went to Pakistan :smith

Regarding the refugee stats, while trying not be in denial - I can understand an Indian Muslim feeling more insecure today than he has ever felt in his life. A lot of Indians, especially BJP supporters, if they had a chance would move abroad. And I'm not talking just West. Malaysia, even Bhutan. It's a mentality thing. This mentality would be found lesser in people in big metros, but a lot of them too would jump at a move to the West, including the likes of Ireland.

The numbers of those moving under 'refugee status' is actually really low considering our population. But I would say this is because Indians haven't yet discovered this escape clause. If this explodes on Whatsapp, bet there will be a massive surge.

Getting back to my earlier point about Muslims in India today. A classmate who regularly wages battle on our Whatsapp school group with BJP supporters using facts, is recently wed and has been thinking of moving back to India. He is Muslim and should be here by end of next year. But for the first time recently, he said he is seriously considering naming his future kid neutrally.

On a less somber note, I found myself chuckling at this bit from the article.

New Zealand’s Immigration and Protection Tribunal recognised the claims of a Kerala family which converted from Hinduism to Christianity and feared harm from various groups affiliated with the BJP, including the RSS.

A Christian from Kerala worried? :)) Even [MENTION=428]Romali_rotti[/MENTION] wouldn't be able to hurt a fly buzzing outside their house.

Apologies in advance to the countries of Malaysia, Bhutan and Ireland for my somewhat offhand dismissal of their pecking position on the Indian migrant ladder. :ssa
 
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But in keeping with the spirit of the OP, how many of them went to Pakistan :smith

People go where they see their life getting better. Afghanistani refugees coming to Pakistan is one example. Life in Afghanistan was tougher due to war. Similarly, Refugees from India are likely to go to countries where they feel life will be better.

None of this should be used to claim that minority don't face descrimination in India. As I said earlier, AA are not fleeing USA, but they do face descrimination.
 
You don't need to look at western media. Here are numbers reported in Indian media,

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UNHCR statistics though suggest that more and more Indians are seeking asylum and are being recognized as refugees. In 2018, there are currently 9,602 refugees and 51,812 pending cases of asylum seekers from India.

https://thewire.in/rights/the-world-is-already-recognising-refugees-from-the-hindu-rashtra

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If this is not a trolling attempt then I genuinely pity you.
There are more cases of reverse or majority discrimination than minority discrimination in india.
I challenge anyone here to prove otherwise.
Anyone living in india knows that, some people just love to degrade their motherland.
 
There are more cases of reverse or majority discrimination than minority discrimination in india.
I challenge anyone here to prove otherwise.
Anyone living in india knows that, some people just love to degrade their motherland.
I obviously don't know much about India but from outside looking in (or you can call it propoganda whatever suits you) I would think opposite of what you are saying is true

So I would love to know the POV of an Indian who thinks that majority are the one's actually getting discriminated against?
 
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There are more cases of reverse or majority discrimination than minority discrimination in india.
I challenge anyone here to prove otherwise.

Anyone living in india knows that, some people just love to degrade their motherland.

You are the one who is making a tall claim like this so you should be the one to prove your claims here. Kindly prove that there are more cases of majority discrimination than minority ones. Waiting.... :inti
 
There is absolutely no discrimination against minorities in India..

That's not true.. yesterday I happen to read Palghar case but surprisingly they didn't mention accuses name.. We all know how big was that malappuram elephant case..
 
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