Monday, April 7, 2008

On Minority

I had done a small research work on the minority conditions in India and Bangladesh. During that time I found the former Prime Minister of India, Mr. Rao to have silently supported the demolition of the Babri Masjid. Two Circles.net reports:

...Addressing a press conference on 3rd April in the capital, Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Ashok Singhal made sensational disclosure. He said Rao had information about the demolition and he had asked the then-RSS chief Bala Saheb Deoras to inform him about the actual act of demolition at least a day before. Babri Masjid was demolished on 6th December 1992 by thousands of Hindu fanatics while police and civil administration remained mute spectator...

A review of Minority in Pakistan by Daily Times:

...Out of Karachi's total Hindu population of 9,000, the merchant class dominated...The non-Muslims of Pakistan have had a raw deal since 1947 when they decided to remain in the new state...Hindus, Christians, Sikhs and Parsis have been short-changed by the Pakistan Muslim League on a moderate programme; the party succumbed to the hardline religious politics of the very clerics who had opposed the idea of Pakistan...The state got out of hand after 1947 and threatened the non-Muslims, and then gradually journeyed towards eating its own children

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