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Sikh minorities facing persecution in Pakistan, alleges DSGMC chief

New Delhi/Peshawar (Pakistan), May 24: Predominantly living in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab provinces, the Sikhs make a small population in Pakistan. However, the minority community is deprived of their religious and constitutional rights. About 60,000 Sikhs live in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, including 15,000 live in Peshawar alone. Those Sikhs living in Peshawar city have to travel miles in order to perform last rites of their loved ones in the absence of a crematorium for the community. President of the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee, Manjit Singh GK says it was a sense of prevailing discrimination in Pakistan which forced Sikh representative to take the matter to judiciary. Manjit Singh asserted that the situation of the minorities in Pakistan is not up to the mark, and a devious nexus of Political class and land mafias had snatched thousands of acres of the land belonging to their gurdwaras. Various human rights reports over the years point towards Pakistan’s dismal record at managing minorities’ affairs. Despite having a dedicated ministry for minorities and other religions, Pakistan establishment has failed to address the plights and concerns of Sikhs in an unbiased and constitutional manner owing to its unscrupulous political class which has failed miserably in executing its duties. Today, Pakistan’s internal affairs policies by and large are decided by influential army generals and they have just been working for the welfare of the Muslim majority.