Pakistan’s former legislator seeks asylum in India

A former legislator from Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party has sought asylum in India, claiming that minorities were deprived in their rights within the neighbouring kingdom.

Baldev Kumar (43), alongside with his spouse and  youngsters got here to India last month and is presently staying at Khanna in Punjab’s Ludhiana district.

“I actually have come right here to are trying to find asylum and will request [Prime Minister Narendra] Modi Sahib to help us,” Mr. Kumar informed newshounds in Khanna on Tuesday.

When requested why he left his usa and got here to India, Mr. Kumar said, “the complete world is watching what is the state of affairs in Pakistan now. We have been anticipating from [Pakistan PM Imran] Khan Sahib that once he got here [to power], the destiny of Pakistan will trade, he stated, claiming Mr. Imran didn't do so.

“You are watching the scenario [in Pakistan] and I am additionally watching the identical. That day our Sikh girl turned into kidnapped. Such matters must no longer take area,” said Mr. Kumar.

Notably, in Pakistan’s Punjab province, a teenage



Sikh girl, the daughter of granthi (priest) of a Gurdwara there, was abducted and converted to Islam at gunpoint before she become married to a Muslim guy, her circle of relatives had alleged.

A video of the lady’s family had long past viral on social media wherein one in all her circle of relatives members had alleged that a collection of fellows attacked their residence and she turned into abducted and forcibly converted to Islam.

He stated, “had minorities been getting rights in Pakistan, such scenario should no longer have arisen.”

He similarly said he has additionally asked his different own family contributors to go away Pakistan.

Mr. Kumar stated that there had been several households in Sindh and Nankana Sahib which instructed him that if he were given asylum there (India), then they could additionally try to go away Pakistan.

Mr. Kumar become a former Member Provincial Assembly (MPA) from Barikot seat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan.

India had expressed robust subject over the incidents of pressured conversion and asked the neighbouring us of a to take remedial motion to forestall such cases.