Ex-Pakistani Hindu cricketer Danish Kaneria, who took over 250 Check wickets, says discrimination as a consequence of faith destroyed his profession
Kaneria participated in a Congressional Briefing on the ‘Plight of minorities in Pakistan’ on Wednesday (native time), the place he shared his experiences of inequality and disrespect.
Having performed 61 Assessments for Pakistan, Kaneria is notably the second Hindu to play for the nationwide cricket workforce, following Anil Dalpat. He has taken over 260 Check wickets and has additionally featured in 17 ODIs for his nation.
“Right now, all of us gathered right here and expressed how all of us confronted discrimination and raised our voices. I additionally confronted discrimination in Pakistan and my profession was destroyed. I didn’t get equal worth, respect in Pakistan… All of the individuals who got here right here spoke in opposition to discrimination, on how Pakistan handled them. So, the principle goal was to unfold consciousness amongst everybody, particularly the US, on how individuals undergo and the issues that exist in Pakistan and take motion in opposition to it,” Kaneria instructed ANI.
Indian-American Congressman Shri Thanedar additionally attended the occasion, calling for the US to sentence the “human rights violations” confronted by Hindu minorities in Pakistan and urging quick motion in opposition to the nation.
“Hindu Action is having this convention in Rayburn Home Workplace Constructing of the US Congress and I am right here to help the Hindus and their wrestle to get human rights, their wrestle to cease the atrocities which might be occurring in Pakistan on the Hindu minorities. Many women are being coerced to transform their faith. There was kidnapping that has occurred of Hindu individuals and I’m right here to demand that the State Division take motion, financial actions, sanctions in opposition to Pakistan till these atrocities cease,” Thanedar stated.He additional added, “We ask that US State Division demand that we strongly condemn these. United States strongly condemn these human rights violations in Pakistan in opposition to the Hindu minorities and fast motion be taken, not simply phrases but in addition fast motion so far as financial sanctions in opposition to Pakistan to make sure that these atrocities cease.”Zeba Mohammed Arif, one other participant on the convention, echoed these sentiments, and stated, “We’re right here all collectively to talk in opposition to the Pakistani authorities, who’re pressuring minority faith, in addition to individuals who have no voice, and particularly we’re speaking in regards to the ladies who’re struggling in Pakistan, the nation that pressuring ladies in opposition to the minority faith. So, we’re right here to talk about them and lift their voices.”
Former Wall Avenue Journal journalist Asra Nomani recounted the tragic story of her colleague Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and murdered in 2002, highlighting the plight of minorities in Pakistan.
“I noticed on the streets of Karachi, Pakistan, the tragic impression of the sectarianism that’s laying declare to too many minorities. My buddy and colleague, Daniel Pearl, was the journalist who was kidnapped after which beheaded and lower into items in 2002,” Nomani stated.
She additional added, “Within the a long time since and till right this moment, we now have a disaster through which too many minority individuals within the nation of Pakistan are usually not allowed the rights and freedoms of being equal residents. And so I stood right here right this moment to testify to my witness and to my very own journalism seeing this injustice that is occurring and that must be corrected.”
(With inputs from ANI)
