The administration has asked such migrants to submit relevant documents and other details for this purpose.
The DC report quoted additional magistrate of Jodhpur Rajendra Singh Rathore as saying: “As per our record, these 919 Pakistani Hindu nationals have completed seven years of their stay in India, the basic eligibility to apply for citizenship.
“We have asked them to follow the procedure and if they fulfil all conditions, including fees, they will be granted citizenship,” Rathore added.
The step comes weeks after many Hindus from Balochistan and Sindh have reportedly migrated to India due to lack of security and persecution of their community.
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@Pity Paki Liberals: Nobody with right mind would advise anybody -- form Kashmir or any other place -- to go to Pakistan to be secure. Siddique Malik, Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
@Mr X from Bombay: R you a muslim.
Dear Indians, did you know people from Jammu and Kashmir come to Pakistan to escape your persecution? Please correct yourselves and I'll automatically feel ashamed. But until then, don't point at us.
@G. Din:
Now, compare that to unending portrayals of victim-hood, Haj subsidies, ceaseless hankering for quotas and reservations not only in jobs but subsequent promotions, too.
What does Affirmative Action, Social security & Hajj subsidy & Caste-based Reservations or massive State subsidy for education,industry, exports,agriculture, healthcare & so on have to do with a generation of noble Sindhis long gone? It is true that without Hajj-subsidy Air India will collapse but that is not the point here.
@Vikas: I extend my welcome to progressive Muslims who want freedom to practice their belief and believe in giving equal freedom to others for following their belief. All fanatics from any race whether they are form hindu, christian or islam, please stay back. We have enough troublemakers to handle.
The day Rinkle was forcibly converted and forced to go with her captor, I was devastated and feel that all Pakistani Hindus should leave the country and make India their home where they can live in peace. Eat what they want, drink what they like, dance, sing, and most important of all don't pray if they don't want to.
@Rakib: to Bruteforce "Within a week the elders among the Sindhis humbly requested the donors not to give food but to give a one-time loan of either some small amount to start a petty trade or some merchandise on credit to hawk. Their self-respect prevented them from becoming beggars & they did not want the youngsters to become lazy bones. " Now, compare that to unending portrayals of victim-hood, Haj subsidies, ceaseless hankering for quotas and reservations not only in jobs but subsequent promotions, too. Democratic Party in US created a system such as that for Blacks in the sixties, seventies and eighties. Result: at least one generation prided itself on not ever having worked a day in their life. Of course, all that ended in nineties. The big difference between the US and the world is that they are resilient enough to change the system. We cannot. Haj subsidies are continuing (even though Supreme Court has asked to put an end to it within ten years), demands for quotas and reservations are all the rage!
@Raj: Vikas said all none muslims!
Ah, Pakistanis must thank India, because of India, Pakistan is becoming more pure ,every passing year!
@Zeeshan Sheikh: After getting rid of the pagans, you can start sorting out the believers according to their degrees of purity and get rid of them too one by one, until only the 100% pure remain.
@JaMeS: "Time for Pakistan to introduce a new flag (full green) without having the white stripe on it representing minorities. With the situation like this, there won’t be many minorities living in Pakistan in the coming years.
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Oh and the flag should be a darker shade of green because only really really true Muslims can live there. Who does that exclude? - Ahmadis - Shias - People who listen to music - People who party - People who watch fayyash Indian shows and movies - People who celebrate basant
@Prabhjyot Singh Madan: "India belongs to all persecuted minorities and Muslim sects from pakistan. Ahmadi Muslims especially amongst the sects."
Disagree my friend. Ahmadis were amongst the people who sought a different coutnry because they did not want to live with Hindus. Well, they have their country - let them sort their mess out.
Muslims who stayed back in India in 1947 are true Indians no different from you and I and deserve every right that any Indian should get but those Muslims who asked for and got a separate country - they need to pay the price of their own actions. I feel sympathy for them but feel no ownership to help resolve their situation.
@Pakistani Pakhtoon: We are not that greedy. We leave all these to our brotherly neighbour for them to enjoy their fruits.
Time for Pakistan to introduce a new flag (full green) without having the white stripe on it representing minorities. With the situation like this, there won't be many minorities living in Pakistan in the coming years.
@BruteForce:
I really hope the Indian Govt waives off the fee for the Indian citizenship
In the aftermath of Partition of 1947 when the first wave began of penniless Sindhi Hindu migrants to Gujarat (India) many philanthropic locals made a practice of donating food, clothing and other items to the indigent refugees. Within a week the elders among the Sindhis humbly requested the donors not to give food but to give a one-time loan of either some small amount to start a petty trade or some merchandise on credit to hawk. Their self-respect prevented them from becoming beggars & they did not want the youngsters to become lazy bones. In few years Sindhi became synonymous with success in every walk of life in India! Even today Revdi Bazar in Ahmedabad stands as witness to their early endeavours at petty trade. And symbol of their immense pride despite hardships exists in the very name they gave to their refugee colony-Kuber Nagar-named after mythological treasurer of the heavens. By all means India must collect the fees & protect their honour. Donors can always lend them money. They will return it. Let none say they came as beggars.
This is a win win situation for everyone!
Pakistanis are happy to get rid of them, Indians are happy to receive their people who unfortunately got stuck there after partition.
Should India allow Muslims also to migrate? No. Why? Because India is taking Hindus because they are persecuted in Pakistan, politically and institutionally. Are Muslims persecuted in Pakistan or Bangladesh?
By that criteria Sikhs and Christians are also allowed to migrate.
I really hope the Indian Govt waives off the fee for the Indian citizenship. Its more than a piece of paper and they belong to the same land.
Aryabhat, many have migrated eg Dawood Ebrahim,Zabiuddin Ansari etc.....
@FJ, Pakistani Pakhtoon, Paki christian
I urge you Indians to stop pretending to be Pakistanis. We don't have to pretend to be Pakistanis to make a point. The whole world knows the truth today.
What ET,nothing wrong with the comment.If you want, i can give you evidence referring newspaper DNA.
Better for them..
@FJ: . I wish we shias get the visa to India as well because Pakistan is only for wahabis! . DearMuslim Brother : There are FIFTY ISLAMIC COUNTRIES. In addition there is Pakistan's Taller than the Himalays etc.etc. & etc. Friend for you Pakistanis to Migrate to. . India is already over-populated and cannot feed its population. As such you will starve in India - that is a fact. . So please apply for a Visa to one of the Fifty Islamic Countries . Cheers
hindus migrating to india from sindh in 2012; now atleast urdu speaking migrants would not be blamed as in previous some articles they were. what sindhi muslims say now why their sindhi brothers are leaving mother sindh!
No prizes for guessing why the Hindus are fleeing.
please India also allow pakhtoons as well as these terrorists have brutally killed thousands of innocnet pakhtoons.
Good news. No place for Pagans in Pakistan
Hindus fleeing the land of Sapta Sindhu, the land of Harappa,Mohenjodaro,Taxila, the land that had produced sacred Hindu scriptures (Vedas & Upanishads).
Very good news good bye!
As i have said before .. Pakistan might be the only country where invaders are decorated and ancestors are prosecuted.
@FJ who writes "I wish we shias get the visa to India as well because Pakistan is only for wahabis!"
Wasn't it a Shia who created Pakistan? Now good luck. However, I feel that you are a Hindu Indian masquerading as a Pakistani. I know. Because I am a Hindu Indian.
@Indian Interior Minister
I urge you to execute stringent screening on all these Hindus. We do not want Pakistani Muslims pretending to be Hindus to escape the travails of Pakistan. Please ensure that strict screening is conducted. This is a humble request.
How about the Rohingyas being welcomed to the citadel of Islam?
@Sridhar: I salute India for its secularism, pluralism and commitment to human dignity. Siddique Malik, Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
@FJ:
No Thanks! May be Iran. Definitely not India.
When India can have millions of illegal immigrants from Bangladsesh, why can't we have these unfortunate people.
This is nothing new to India. Throughout its history India has received people escaping relgious persecution be it Zorastrians or the Jews. The tolerence and capacity of Mother India is infinite...(so it seems)
Good news for those persecuted families!
BTW, not a single muslim has come from India to Pakistan asking for asylum!
Who is stopping them? These were words of former prime minister but in general It's shame and no one in Pakistan side taking any productive step to stop this.
No other option left for them.......
All non-muslims from Pakistan and Bangladesh are welcome in India with open arms.
I wish we shias get the visa to India as well because Pakistan is only for wahabis!
good step.
Very Sad to leave our motherland Sindh !! but have no option ....