A day after a Sikh trader was killed in Peshawar in Pakistan, New Delhi lodged a protest with the neighboring country’s government for targeting the minority community there.
A senior diplomat from Pakistan’s High Commission in New Delhi was summoned to the Foreign Ministry, where officials conveyed to him that India had taken serious note of incidents of attacks on minority communities in the neighboring country, including Sikhs. .
New Delhi noted that there were at least four incidents of attacks against Sikhs in Pakistan between April and June this year.
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A 35-year-old Sikh, Manmohan Singh, was shot dead in Peshawar as he was returning home from his shop in the northwestern Pakistani city. Previously, another Sikh had survived a similar attack in the same city. The Islamic State, a terrorist organization, claimed responsibility for both attacks, claiming the victims had been targeted because they practiced a polytheistic religion. Two other Sikh businessmen were killed in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in May last year.
Islamabad also lodged a protest outside New Delhi on Saturday alleging that the violation of the ceasefire along the Line of Control (LoC) by Indian army personnel resulted in the deaths of two civilians in Pakistan. That was the first time that one of the two nations claimed a violation of the 2003 ceasefire throughout the LoC after they reached an agreement in February 2021 to strictly abide by it and not breach it. However, the Indian Army stated that its soldiers had thwarted an infiltration attempt by three armed intruders from Pakistan.
New Delhi’s acting envoy to Islamabad was summoned to the Pakistani Government’s Foreign Ministry and conveyed a “strong protest” over the alleged “ceasefire violation” by the Indian armed forces. However, the Indian Army stated that its soldiers had thwarted an infiltration attempt by three armed intruders from Pakistan.
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