Pakistan provincial govt offers compensation to household of murdered Sikh dealer

By Press Trust of India: The authorities of Pakistan’s restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province handed over a compensation of Rs 5 lakh every to the households of the Sikh dealer who was killed final week and one other who was injured in a separate incident, in what seems to be instances of targetted assaults towards the minority communities the nation.

Caretaker Chief Minister of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province Muhammad Azam Khan handed over the cheques to the households of slain Manmohan Singh and injured Tarlok Singh.

Manmohan Singh, 35, was attacked by some armed males after which he was shifted to a hospital however was pronounced useless by the medical doctors.

Khan directed the police to create a safety plan for the safety of members of the Sikh group within the province within the wake of rising incidents of killings and focusing on of members of the minority group.

Foolproof safety preparations, together with CCTV cameras, needs to be put in on the residential areas of the Sikhs, their buying and selling and worship locations within the province, stated the caretaker chief minister.

He condemned the killing and stated that Sikh group members are peaceable and patriotic residents and so they have a significant function within the nationwide growth.

Targeting members of the minority communities means disrupting the prevailing spiritual concord in Pakistan, he stated, including that these parts won’t ever succeed of their nefarious agendas.

The Islamic State terror group has claimed accountability for a few of the assaults on the Sikhs.

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa authorities will take each step to make sure the safety of the life and properties of minorities, he asserted.

Separately, Additional Secretary Shrines Evacuees Property Trust Board Govt of Pakistan Rana Shahid Saleem and Pardhan Sahib Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee gave Rs 5 lakh cheque every to Sardar Diyal Singh, who was killed earlier and the household of slain Sardar Manmohan Singh. A cheque of Rs 3 lakh was given to the household of Tarlok Singh.

India on Monday summoned a senior diplomat of the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi and lodged a robust protest over the latest incidents of assaults on Sikh group members in that nation.

The diplomat was instructed that Pakistan ought to guarantee the security and safety of its minorities who dwell in “constant fear of religious persecution”.

Four incidents of assaults on Sikh group members have taken place between April and June and India has taken severe word of those incidents.

About 15,000 Sikhs dwell in Peshawar, principally within the Jogan Shah neighbourhood of the provincial capital Peshawar.

Most of the members of the Sikh group in Peshawar are concerned in enterprise, whereas some even have pharmacies.