{"id":103897,"date":"2020-06-24T14:47:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T21:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=103897"},"modified":"2020-06-24T14:47:30","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T21:47:30","slug":"a-silent-support-to-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/06\/24\/a-silent-support-to-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"A SILENT SUPPORT TO TERRORISM"},"content":{"rendered":"

ALI SUKHANVER<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Bahawalpur is a\nland of sandy plains in the South Punjab area of Pakistan. Last month on 21st<\/sup>\nMay a protest was carried out at Deputy Commissioner Office Bahawalpur. This\nprotest was led by two local residents Mansha Raam & Laskshman Raam. They\nwere protesting against demolishing of their houses by the city administration.\nSome of the Indian newspapers and TV Channels simply misguided the public by\nmisreporting the matter. They said it was an action against the Hindu\nminorities living in Pakistan. In fact, it was anti-encroachment operation\ncarried out by the local administration. According to the City administration,\nthe protesters are professional state land encroachers and there have been many\ncomplaints that they are involved in money-grabbing also and most of the time\ntheir target are the people belonging to the Hindu community. Indian media is\nportraying this incident to propagate negative image and create atmosphere of\nuneasiness among minorities living in Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pakistan is a\nvery safe country for the minorities and the government always remains very\nalert regarding their rights. It is not Pakistan but India where the minorities\nlive a life of pain and agony. Once proud of its secularism, India has become a\nland only for the upper-caste Hindus; others are not allowed even to breathe\nfreely.  Every day, countless Muslims,\nSikhs, Christians and Dalits have to pass through a grind just because they do\nnot belong to the Hindu community. The Christian Post recently published a\nreport which says that the early quarter of 2020 had been a very frightening\nperiod for the Christians in India. Attacks on Christians and their places of\nworship in India continued to escalate in both number and severity in the early\nmonths of 2020 with 27 violent incidents reported in March alone. The report\nreferred to a document prepared by the United Christian Forum which pointed out\n56 threats against Christians as well as 78 incidents of violence against the Christian\ncommunity between January and March of 2020. The UCF said that all these\nattacks took place in Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, Bihar,\nKarnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Telangana, and Goa. In most cases, the\nattacks were perpetrated by mobs objecting to Christians holding worship\nservices. There are countless examples of forced conversion of Christians to\nHinduism. Hindu extremists are threatening the Christians that they would have\nto face serious consequences if they do not change their religion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This cruel\nbehaviour with the minorities is purely an inhuman approach and it must have\nbeen discouraged but unfortunately the members of the UN Security Council\nappreciated this approach by electing India as a Non-Permanent member of the\nSecurity Council. The UN Security Council is one of the most sacred bodies\nresponsible for maintenance of peace and harmony all over the world. Whenever\nthere is a situation of anarchy or civil war or any other type of disturbance in\nany country, it is the UN Security Council which decides about the deployment\nof UN peace troops in the troubled area. The Security Council is a very\nsensitive body of the United Nations, so the member-countries must be those\nhaving an unblemished reputation. In case of India, the situation is altogether\notherwise. Those who voted for India in UN Security Council\u2019s elections were well\naware of mistreatment and injustice; the religious and racial minorities have\nto face in India.  By supporting India\nthey have done nothing but lent a helping hand to extremism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though the same\nhorrible situation is being faced by the Sikhs and the Muslims too but the\nworst of all are the Dalits.  Most of the\nDalits or the Untouchables belong to the low-caste tribes. Their fate is to\nface violence and forced \u2018social distancing\u2019 at the hands of the upper-caste\nHindus. Even their shadows are not allowed to touch the people from more\nprivileged castes but when the matter comes to the rape of a Dalit woman, the\nUpper-caste Hindu men try to ignore all that \u2018untouchablity\u2019. On 13th<\/sup>\nJanuary, 2020 an article of Sumanti Sen was published in The Logical Indian which\nsaid, Four Dalit women are raped every day in India. Every time a Dalit woman\nor a woman from any so-called lower-caste is subjected to sexual violence, it\nbecomes clear that the prevailing structure of caste and the status of women in\nsociety are largely responsible for the violation of their human rights.\u201d  From the Dalits to the Muslims, BJP\u2019s India\nhas become a blazing hell for all minorities. It is simply the callousness of\nthe world that such a \u2018dangerous\u2019 country has been prized with Non-Permanent\nmembership of the Security Council. Certainly by voting for India, the member\ncountries have expressed their silent support to terrorism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ALI SUKHANVER Bahawalpur is a land of sandy plains in the South Punjab area of Pakistan. Last month on 21st May a protest was carried out at Deputy Commissioner Office Bahawalpur. This protest was led by two local residents Mansha Raam & Laskshman Raam. They were protesting against demolishing of their houses by the city […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ali-sukhanver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}