Claiming that they are being humiliated by people of ‘other community’, the family members of Nankana Sahib Sikh girl Jagjit Kaur alias Ayesha Bibi have appealed to their government to send them out of Pakistan so they could live with dignity.
“We are unable to send our young daughters to schools or to the market places alone, people of other community humiliate us whenever they get a chance to do so,” said Manmohan Singh, brother of Jagjit, while talking to TOI over phone from Nankana Sahib on Thursday.
He said on Thursday his family comprising nine members, including women of the house, gave a letter to deputy commissioner of Nankana Sahib urging him to arrange them passports so they could live in some other country without fear.
After living for nearly a year in Dar ul Alam in Lahore, Lahore high court had directed police to send Jagjit with her husband Mohammad Hassan on August 12. However, her family members resented that the court didn’t even give them five minutes to meet Jagjit. They also accused Pakistan government as well as Pakistan Punjab governor Muhammad Sarwar Chaudhary of keeping them in dark and making them false promises.
“The most surprising fact is that none of the mainstream Sikh leader of Pakistan came forward to help us,” said Manmohan. He said the family had also sent a copy of their letter to all the Sikh political as well as religious leaders of Pakistan. “We are knocking at every door for help,” he said.
Intelligence sources here said Jagjit’s family is also willing to migrate to India . “It is better for us to leave Pakistan to stay anywhere in the world, life here has become very difficult for us, especially after being ditched by our own leadership,” he said.
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