Karachi, Pakistan (AP) -- they come dusk, Shouting "kill hindus, hindus kill these children," they hit the religious ICONS close women's bosom, flash gun, torn gold bracelet in the night sky. Pakistan's biggest city suburb of Hindu temples attack, this is not the first time, and the residents worry, this will not be the last.
"People don't think we as equal citizens. They beat us, whenever they want," Moore chang DE said, teenage boy gathered in one of the temples. "We are not worship."
This is the second time krsna lhamo temple be attacked, and this time the mob didn't even hide their faces. Small temples, stone surrounded by, is a small religious outpost, in a dust float in the sky of, poor nearby suburbs of the city on the main road a mark, in the hope that people leave Karachi a pleasant journey.
The local Muslim residents accused person from the nearby pushtun family village attack, occurred in late September, the prophets of love, the government announced in dealing with anti islamic movie in the United States have no a national holiday in a serious were wounded in the attack.
This is the latest in a rising hindus in this 95% of the Muslim countries, islamic extremist violence and discrimination. Pakistan hindus say, it faces were forced to convert India girl Islam, lack of legal admitted that their marriage in the service and physical abuse, discrimination, they into the street.
India's population in Pakistan's story, is a long-term decline. In the 1947 years of Pakistan and India, violence separated into independent countries, hundreds of thousands of hindus choose moved to India, Hinduism is the dominant religion. Those who still and their descendants are now a small part of Pakistan, an estimated 1.9 million people, mostly concentrated in the southern sindh part of the country.
Their former figure signs can be found everywhere, in Karachi, the capital of sindh. In the 150 - year - old idol's temple pull up along the city one of the main road, thousands of hindus gather in years to celebrate important religious holiday. Hindus in the 200 - year - old pull g sago nano pull for temple scattered the ashes of the cremation relatives from the Arabian sea waters of the entrance.
But there are also many far down the social from all walks of life signs. Hungry land in a city residents have begun to set up the Hindu cemetery, community leaders said. Hindus to help construct Karachi port decades ago, but did not work.
It is estimated that in Pakistan of India's population size on the map - in sindh have 2.5 million or 100000 to 7 million in all parts of the country - the fact that the country has been no census since 1998 reflect.
It is not only a problem of hindus. And other minority christians, muslims branch of the sufis and mahmoud denominational mysterious have found themselves attacked Pakistan, the rise of the islamic fundamentalism, sometimes launched a violent against those who don't follow strict religious creed.
The discrimination, prompted some hindus to India, activists warn that although degree don't know. About 3000 hindus left this year, four years ago migration, causing people's discrimination and crime rates are rising, in sindh, part of the DM horse hala jie said, who is responsible for the organization to help hindus called Pakistan Indian lok sabha.
He said he recently with a group of ready to move to India, from the countryside sindh hindus, complain, they can not eat Muslim restaurant, Muslim officials refused to agricultural loans. Even in the recent floods, they say, the Muslim don't want to let them live in the same refugee camp.
As members of the provincial council Pitamber Sewami deny Hindu digital, reflecting the sensitive question is how to have a migration. Earlier this year, Pakistani media reports, about hindus leave the country there is a string, triggered a promise Pakistani officials were investigated.
In India, a family office officials said, the Indian government notice from Pakistan people have rising trend, but the report Pakistan people escape from India "exaggeration." He said he is no exact figures how many Pakistan hindus stay in India after the tourist visa to enter the country. The person in charge of topic sensitive because not to be named conditions.
More important is a Hindu of forced to convert the consensus of the seriousness of this problem.
Face Hera · optimal prime blessed, Pakistan's human rights commission chairman said that, this model is like this: an Indian girl missing, then return for days or weeks later marry a Muslim boy. In the court hearing, to determine whether it is voluntary conversion from nearby islamic school students is often called religious school flood room, trying to bully the judge's chanted required conversion confirmation.
The horse hala jie said, he tried to intervention in about 100 cases of forced conversion, but only successful return to a girl safely back to her family. If a girl decided to abandon Islam and Hinduism, she might be signed death warrant she and her family were forced to even when her conversion.
The team in a lack of unified Hindu society also hurt. Indian society in Pakistan and other place in history is divided into class, a system, low caste society stratification often considered inferior. The lower caste in Pakistan members said, it is not from a high caste family, until two girls were forcibly conversion this year high caste hindus problem, but it has been for many years.
Bholoo Devjee said: "we always myself our war, from Karachi, India activists, talking about low caste.
In recent months, the government had started taking Hindu social attention, more serious is. In sindh, members of the legislative council of the proposed law, in order to prevent forced conversion part of the marriage between a Hindu and Muslim can go to achieve a waiting time, and also puts forward such law, and at the national level discussion.
In krsna lhamo temples, law enforcement authorities open the rampage, building on the people's profane case. But, the people are skeptical, these developments said any long-term improve their plight. Weeks after the incident,
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