Seeking safety, we decided to move to India,”

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The latest batch of refugees from the Swat-Peshawar belt, who reached Amritsar in January 2009, say that with increasing Islamic radicalisation, the sense of insecurity of their women and the future of children has created a situation so terrifying that leaving home and hearth remained the only honourable option.

Five such Hindu families from Peshawar and nearby tribal areas have arrived in India as refugees, seeking political asylum. The group, including 16 men and an equal number of women and three children, are presently lodged with their relatives in Chheharta town of Amritsar district on the Indo-Pakistan border. Some other fellow travellers have, in the meanwhile, gone to New Delhi seeking political asylum.

“After taking control of the Swat Valley and tribal areas, the Taliban have started moving into cities. They are approaching Peshawar, having already occupied the outskirts of the city. We have heard stories of molestation and cruelty against women in these areas. Seeking safety, we decided to move to India,” says Jagdish Sharma, a hakeem (a doctor who practices traditional medicines) whose family has been residents of Peshawar for generations. When the threat became too difficult to take, Sharma sold off his medicine shop, a property owned by his forebears. The situation in Swat in 2009, tragically, has invited comparisons with Punjab in 1947. “I don’t know what the situation was during Partition, but the present situation is so stifling that no one can even breathe freely. Posters have appeared in villages around Peshawar in support of the Taliban and their social and moral code, which stipulates beards for men and no education or rights for women. The Taliban have written their own laws. Now India should help us by granting us nationality because we are not willing to go back”, Sharma wails. They cannot, under the circumstances.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).

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