National Commission for Minorities (NCM) chairman Chela Ram Kewalani has said that members of the Hindu minority community, who have migrated from Pakistan to India, now want to return due to gross human rights violations in the neighbouring country. APP/File
ISLAMABAD: National Commission for Minorities (NCM) chairman Chela Ram Kewalani has said that members of the Hindu minority community, who have migrated from Pakistan to India, now want to return due to gross human rights violations in the neighbouring country.
Chairing the sixth meeting of the commission here on Wednesday, he urged India to stop persecution of religious minorities.
National
December 24, 2020
ISLAMABAD: The National Minorities Commission on Wednesday strongly condemned Indian persecution of the peaceful Sikh community and use of brutal force against their peaceful protests.
A meeting of the Commission also demanded that India must stop human rights violation, saying that Hindus, who migrated from Pakistan, also wanted to return. National Minorities Commission Chairman, Cheela Ram Kewalani, presided over the sixth session the Commission. The meeting was attended by members of the Minority Commission, officials of the Islamic Ideological Council, Ministry of Interior, Law and Justice, Human Rights and the Ministry of Religious Affairs.
The meeting discussed a number of important issues, including the draft of the National Minorities Commission Act 2020, improving the plight of minorities, living in Pakistan, protecting their religious places and eliminating negative propaganda against Pakistan at the international level.
Minorities panel condemns Indian persecution of Sikh farmers’ peaceful protest
December 23, 2020
India must stop human rights violations; Hindus who migrated from Pakistan also want to return: Cheela Ram Kewalani
By Hamid Khan Wazir
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The National Minorities Commission (NMC) has strongly condemned India’s persecution of peaceful protests by Sikh farmers, saying that India, the claimant of the largest democracy, has always deprived the rights of its minorities.
While presiding over the Sixth Session of the National Minorities Commission at the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony in Islamabad on Wednesday, the Chairman NMC Cheela Ram Kewalani said that India must stop human rights violations, noting that Hindus who migrated from Pakistan also want to return.