Showing posts with label Efforts to rescue abducted Pak Sikhs intensify. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Efforts to rescue abducted Pak Sikhs intensify. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Efforts to rescue abducted Pak Sikhs intensify

Pakistan (February 17, 2014): It is learnt that Pakistan Sikh leaders has been holding meeting with the Pakistan leadership, including the so-called ‘hardliners’, to save the two Sikh who were abducted near Deraban area of Dera Ismail Khan last week.

The abductors though released the other two men, who along with two Pakistani Sikhs were kidnapped, but the other captives, who were identified as Pawinder Singh and Nand Singh, resident of Mohallaj Jogan Shah, Peshawar, and deal in natural medicines, remain untraceable.

PakistanAs per information member provincial assembly of Imran Khan’s Pakistan According to media reports Sadar Singh father of Pawinder Singh and uncle of Nand Singh has registered a case with the Deraban Police station under Pakistan Penal Code against abductors.
“We had meeting with Maulana Sami ul Haq, the head of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan’s (TTP), Jamaat e Islami KPK Ameer Prof M Ibrahim Khan, Maulana Atta Ur Rehman , vice presedent Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam and so on to make early and safe release of the Pawinder Singh and Nand Singh”, Swarn Singh reportedly told news-agency ANI.

Sikh leaders in Pakistan and India have also shown their concern for the safety and security of minorities living in Pakistan.

Sham Singh, President of the Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Parbhandhak Committee (PSGPC), has urged the federal government to make sure the two Sikhs are released.

Whereas Avtar Singh Makkar President Shiromani Gurdwara Parbhandhak Committee (SGPC), the premier body of the Sikhs that have been looking after the religious affairs, appealed to the Pakistan government to find out the whereabouts of two Pakistani Sikhs.


with thanks : SikhSiyaasat