Pittsburgh_Patrika_October_2019
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The <strong>Pittsburgh</strong> <strong>Patrika</strong>, Vol, 25, No. 1, <strong>October</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />
cleansing, ill-treating minorities and<br />
others — are more applicable to Pakistan.<br />
The Hindu population in Pakistan<br />
in 1971 (after the Bangladesh war) was<br />
nearly 2.9%. Now it is around 1.7%.<br />
Pakistan’s Hindus, Christians, Ahmedis,<br />
and Sikhs complain about violence<br />
against them and their women. Balochs<br />
complain that Pakistan’s Punjabis and<br />
Sindhis are changing the demographics<br />
of Baluchistan, the mineral rich, thinly<br />
populated region. Christians, Sikhs and<br />
Hindus are prohibited by law from holding the office of president, prime<br />
minister, or chief Justice, or in the military. Ahmedis are hounded out and<br />
persecuted, and cannot even contest elections. And Pakistan has already<br />
changed the demographics in the part of Kashmir it occupies and in the<br />
Gilgit/Baltistan region with people from the Punjab. Pakistan-occupied<br />
Kashmir is now directly administered by Islamabad. So, on these matters,<br />
Imran Khan has to only stand in front a mirror before accusing Modi.<br />
The real winner are the Ladakhis. People in Jammu have welcomed<br />
the abrogation. The Ladakhis, now in a directly administered Fed-<br />
Uncertainties in South Asia... Continued on Page 26<br />
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