Pakistani Hindus demand to settle Burma Muslims in Pakistan

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Pakistan Christian Post

Pakistani Hindus demand to settle Burma Muslims in Pakistan

Karachi: June 10, 2015. (PCP) Pakistan Hindu Council, representative body of Hindu community living across the country, has demanded Government of Pakistan for taking practical measures by sending Pak Navy ships to help oppressed Muslims of Burma wandering in the seas in search of shelter, saying that Muslims of Burma must be settled in the Pakistan on emergency bases with the financial support of Government and Malik Riaz, who recently announced 10 Crore Rupees grant for them.

Dr. Ramesh Kumar Vankwani, Patron-in-chief of Pakistan Hindu Council and MNA, while addressing a ceremony, has said that one of the objectives to establish Pakistan, according to the founder Quad-e-Azam, was to provide shelter to the Muslims of sub-continent, emphasizing that Burma was also part of Indian sub-continent under the British rule and last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar was also buried there.

"Proving shelter to the Burma Muslims in the birth place of Budha, which is today's Pakistan, will rest the soul of Budha in peace," Dr Ramesh said. In addition, he also paid rich tribute to the decision during the first tenure of PM Nawaz Sharif for providing refugee to the Bosnian Muslims.

Briefing his recent visit to Sindh, he said that financial aid was provided to the deserving patients in the hospitals of Mithi and Islam Kot, Rs. 7 Lac were provided to establish Guo Shala in Mithi, condolence to the family of Hindu boy who was died in a bus accident was offered, while addressing a seminar at Hyderabad Press Club, he emphasized the need to promote religious freedom, interfaith harmony and collective efforts to counter extremism and terrorism.

On the occasion, members of Pakistan Hindu Council also staged a peaceful demonstration outside Karachi Press Club in favor of Burma Muslims.

 

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With whats happening in Karachi I think they are safer in Burma

 

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Shaming Muslim leaders, Obama speaks for Rohingya rights - Daily Pakistan Global

Shaming Muslim leaders, Obama speaks for Rohingya rights

WASHINGTON (Web Desk) – US President Barack Obama has urged Myanmar to end discrimination against its ethnic Rohingya Muslim minority if it wants to succeed in its democratic transition from decades of junta rule.

“The Rohingya have been discriminated against significantly, and that’s part of the reason they’re fleeing,” Obama said Monday in Washington at an event with young leaders from Southeast Asia, the NDTV reported.

The plight of the Muslim group, 1.3 million of whom live in western Myanmar but are mostly denied citizenship, has come under scrutiny as a migrant crisis unfurls in Southeast Asia.


Around 3,500 people, mainly Rohingya or economic migrants from Bangladesh, have reached land in Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, while thousands more are feared trapped on boats adrift at sea.


Obama has thrown his political weight behind the complex transition in Myanmar, which was ruled by the military with an iron fist until reforms began in 2011.

Tens of thousands of Rohingya have lived in displacement camps since 2012 when deadly communal violence tore through the western state of Rakhine.

Addressing what is “required for Myanmar to succeed”, Obama said “one of the most important things is to put an end to discrimination against people because of what they look like or what their faith is.”

“I think if I were a Rohingya, I would want to stay where I was born. But I’d want to make sure that my government was protecting me and that people were treating me fairly,” he added.

“And that’s why it’s so important, I think, as part of the democratic transition, to take very seriously this issue of how the Rohingya are treated.”

Myanmar does not recognise the Rohingya as a separate ethnic minority, instead calling them “Bengalis”. It insists they are illegal immigrants from neighbouring Bangladesh.


As a result they face restrictions on movement and on access to jobs and services, prompting thousands each year to brave the dangerous sea journey south towards Malaysia and Indonesia.

Myanmar’s first census in three decades, held in 2014, did not include them in the tally after authorities refused to allow the group to identify themselves as “Rohingya”.

A powerful Buddhist nationalist campaign for tighter restrictions on all of Myanmar’s Muslim population has deepened hostility to the Rohingya – and has been met with a muted response from political leaders, including Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.

Her opposition party is set to contest elections in November, which Obama has backed as a key stepping stone towards democracy.


But during his last visit to the nation in November last year, Obama warned that Myanmar’s reforms were by “no means complete or irreversible”, citing the cramping of freedom of expression, ongoing conflicts and the treatment of Myanmar’s minority groups – especially the Rohingya.

 

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ASSK looks horrified by his arm around her.

 

[tsinga]

We agree with Pakistani Hindus on this.

Pakistan must take all the Rohingyas - win win situation for Rohingyas as well as Myanmar.

 

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"Proving shelter to the Burma Muslims in the birth place of Budha, which is today's Pakistan, will rest the soul of Budha in peace," Dr Ramesh said.

Wait, what?