The population in the Tharparkar district in the Sindh province of West Pakistan was 80% Hindu and 20% Muslim at the time of independence in 1947. During the Indo-Pakistani Wars of 1965 and 1971, estimated 1,500 Hindu families fled to India, this led to a massive demographic shift in the district. During these same wars, 23,300 Hindu families also migrated to Jammu Division from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and West Punjab