Five Hindu families migrate to India due to worsening law and order in Jacobabad

Another five Hindu families migrated to India from Sindh's Jacobabad district due to worsening law and order situation.

In a video being widely shared on social media platforms, the Hindu families can be seen in tears while saying goodbye to their ancestral land of Jacobabad.

Earlir, a member of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Dr Ramesh Kumar Vankwani revealed in the National Assembly that around 5,000 Hindus are migrating from Pakistan to India every year.

Commenting on law and order situation in the country, the PML-N MNA said that six incidents of religious desecration happened within last two months in Sindh, majority of the incidents were regarding burning the religious books of Hindu minority in the province.

Vankwani said that it was the constitutional rights of the people, belonging to different minorities, to practice their religion freely in Pakistan. “Are we not part of Pakistan?” he questioned.

He said that influential people were forcefully converting religion of Hindu girls in interior Sindh, urging the government to take steps to counter such attempts from Muslim majority in the country.