Amir Khusrau’s Urs: Mistreatment of Pakistani Pilgrims in India

Lahore: Pakistani pilgrims going to attend Amir Khusrau’s Urs are facing ill-treatment in India.

According to reports, the Pakistani pilgrims going to India to attend the Urs of the great Sufi poet of the subcontinent, Abul Hasan Yaminuddin, known as Amir Khusro, have been confined in a hotel in New Delhi by the Indian police and agencies officials for the last two days in the name of security. .

Pilgrims are not allowed to go out of the hotel and they are not allowed to meet anyone in the hotel. 70 Pilgrims from Pakistan went to New Delhi India via Wagah border two days ago where they were accommodated at Hotel Today in New Delhi. has been done

Talking to Express News, Pakistani visitors said that officials from Delhi Police and Indian agencies are stationed outside the guest rooms in the hotel, in the main hall of the hotel and outside. They have not been allowed to visit the shrine of Amir Khusrau for two days and they cannot go out of the hotel.

According to reports, some pilgrims have demanded to be sent back to Pakistan after being fed up with the inappropriate behavior of Delhi Police and agency officials.

It should be noted that the Indian High Commission not only delayed the issuance of visas to Pakistani pilgrims and gave them only one-week visas, but rejected 119 of the 199 visa applications sent by the Federal Ministry of Religious Affairs and issued visas to only 80 pilgrims. released

Due to the delay in issuing visas, only 70 pilgrims have gone to India. Pilgrims say that Pakistan respects Indian Sikh and Hindu pilgrims, they are provided with all facilities, but Pakistani pilgrims are not welcomed by the Indian government. They are not even allowed to roam freely.

The pilgrims have demanded that the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi and the Federal Ministry of Religious Affairs take notice of this mistreatment of the pilgrims and talk to the Indian government about it.