SIKHS PERSECUTED IN SWAT

Date: 19 May 2009

Comment:

Pakistani Sikh families Flee after Targeted by Taliban 
Sikhs are considered bravest of the braves in India. Truly, 35 Sikh families in Lower Orakzai at Pakistan-Afghanistan border had refused to leave their homes even after mass murders of Hindus and Sikhs in Pakistan during the partition of India in 1947. But Taliban forces now have captured Orakzai town and started persecuting the Sikhs. Taliban imposed huge amount of protection tax (jaziya) on Sikhs there. And if not paid then their men folks would be murdered and their women would be raped. Both Pakistan and Indian governments are so far silent on the issue… 
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