A group of 48 Pakistani Hindus has yet again landed in Jodhpur on Sunday and joined 347 members of Pakistan’s Hindu minority at a transit camp. “All of them came on pilgrim visa and refused to return to Pakistan,” says Singh Sodha, president of Seemant Lok Sangthan (SLS). The group included 24 people of shepherd community of Raekas. It is first time when a group of Raekas migrated to India from Pakistan.
“They came with no money to feed their family member. They are penniless and one can see only garments they wearing as their only wealth,” says Mr Sodha. The SLS has been campaigning for the Hindu minority of neighbouring Pakistan for years and seeking India’s intervention to resolve the matter as well a refugee status to the migrated Hindus.
“We are arranging food and shelter for such helpless Hindus with the help of locals, but it is most unfortunate that no government help reached so far,” laments Mr Sodha.
The Thar Express brings such Hindus from Pakistan every week.
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Woman held after security scare at ISRO
age Correspondent
Bengaluru, Sept. 24
Whether she’s a spy or mentally challenged, as claimed by her husband is yet to be established. What is clear is that 40-year-old Buela M Sam, who attempted to enter the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) posing as a scientist, and arrested in Bengaluru on Monday, may have been behind the biggest security breach of this highly sensitive research facility in recent times.
The last big scandal was when ISRO scientists were targeted by two Maldivian women in the infamous Nambinarayan case in 1994.
Ms Sam who posed as a senior scientist of Isro had stayed at the Isro guesthouse on Old Airport Road, Bengaluru east, for two whole days before attempting to enter the closely guarded organisation’s headquarters in Yelahanka at Bengaluru north.
City police commissioner B.G. Jyothip-rakash Mirji said the woman was arrested after CISF (Central Industrial Security Force) at the Yelahanka office determined her identity card, identifying her as Buela M Sam, a native of Kerala was fake. Her claim to have visited the Isro offices for a conference also set off alarm bells.