It states that whoever "defiles the sacred name of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) shall be punished with death, or imprisonment for life, and shall also be liable to fine. The 1911 Census put the Muslim population at 75.94 per cent. Those who still are brave enough not to leave their roots and culture are converted by force. Earlier these people were known as Dhimmis, and they had to pay extra taxes to be a Dhimmi. When he migrated to India in 2014, he was grateful to leave the violence and pressure of Karachi, Pakistan’s commercial hub. This meant people were forced to take their deceased loved ones to their hometowns for burial, sometimes travellingÂ.The move was one of the very few acts of cooperation between the Khan-led government and India, which has seen relations worsen in recent years. 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. 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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. That is 95% of oppression against free will and the choice to practise one’s religion.One of the primary reason why the minorities are fleeing from Pakistan is to save themselves and their culture. ... During the 2019 Bangladesh elections, eight houses belonging to Hindu families on fire in Thakurgaon alone. As per this census, Pakistan's non-Muslim population was 3.70 per cent of the total population in 1998. According to an estimation by Pakistan Hindu Council there are more than 8000000 Hindus are currently living in the different states of Pakistan, but majority of Hindus is settled in the province of Sindh. Historical Hindu Population; Year Pop. Geeta was burnt to keep the Quran warm. The Hindus of Pakistan are a religious minority in an overwhelmingly Muslim society. It didn’t stop there. Recently, though Pakistan carried out a fresh census in 2017 but its religious data is yet to be released. According to Hindu mythology, one’s mortal soul is supposed to be burnt after death. Construction of the much-needed temple complex begins as part of government's outreach to the minority Hindu community.Construction of the first Hindu temple in the Pakistani capital Islamabad began on Tuesday,Â.The site of the Shri Krishna Mandir (temple) complex, will include a crematorium, accommodation for visitors, a community hall and a parking space spread across an area of 4 kanals (2,023sq metres).The plan was approved in 2017 under former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's government, but construction had been delayed until this year by administrative hurdles.Â,"This is very big step for the Hindu community and Pakistan," Pritam Das, anÂ.Das said Pakistani Hindus across the country, and especially in Islamabad, were grateful to Prime Minister Khan and his government for facilitating the construction of the temple and other related facilities, which he said was much needed considering the steady growth of the capital's Hindu population. 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. Hindus have to travel all the way down to Sindh to perform the last rites. The government of Pakistan doesn’t give permissions to make such crematoriums.The plight of the minorities in Pakistan is sad, and there is little awareness about it. 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. 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.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.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.

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