New Delhi: India has responded strongly to the murder of Hindu woman Daya Bheel in Pakistan’s Sindh province asking the nation to protect its minorities. The report of the murder led to outrage in Sindh.
Spokesperson Arindam Bagchi of the Ministry of External Affairs told media that India ‘reiterated that Pakistan should protect its minorities along with their safety, security and well-being”.
The incident made shockwaves in media after Krishna Kumari, a Senator of Pakistan Peoples Party from Tharparkar Sindh, made revelations visiting Daya Bheel’s village.
Confirming the murder of the woman she tweeted that Daya Bheel, 40-year-old widow was brutally murdered and her head was separated from the body and flesh from her whole head was removed.
Following this The Rise News, a nonprofit news organization, tweeted asking whether the police would apprehend culprits, adding Daya Bheel was brutally murdered and her case would not be highlighted in media and nor would politicians in Islamabad or Sindh would issue a statement.
The lopsided treatment of minorities in Pakistan has long been a subject of international scrutiny and criticism.
Most recently, the UK government imposed sanction on a Muslim cleric Mian Abdul Hag for forced conversions and marriage of girls from minority communities, according to a report in NDTV.
According to The International Forum For Rights And Security (IFFRAS), the latest sanction highlighted the ‘precarious situation’ of minorities in the nation.
Mian Abdul Haq, according to, IFFRAS was a Pakistan People's Party (PPP) lawmaker between 2008 and 2013.
He was expelled from the party following reports of forced conversion and marriage of Rinkle Kumari from minority Hindu community.
Reports of situation of women, minorities and children in Pakistan, according to NDTV, suggest that human rights have touched a new low in Pakistan.
Forced conversions of minor Hindu, Sikh, and Christian girls, and attacks on minority communities have become even more rampant in Sindh, the report said.