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Claim: Speech of a Hindu MP of Pakistan pleading for Mercy on Hindus (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-31)
Evidence (2024-09-22): The Hindus are one of the persecuted minority religions in Pakistan. Militancy and sectarianism has been rising in Pakistan since the 1990s, and the religious minorities such as Hindus have "borne the brunt of the Islamist's ferocity" suffering "greater persecution than in any earlier decade", states Farahnaz Ispahani – a Public Policy Scholar at the Wilson Center. This has led to attacks and forced conversion of the Hindus.[221][222][223] [...] Hindus in Pakistan are often treated as second class citizens, systematically discriminated and dehumanised.[233] Hindu women have also been known to be victims of kidnapping and forced conversion to Islam.[234] A member of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan claimed in 2010, though without official record, that around 20 to 25 girls from the Hindu community, along with people from other minorities like Christians, are abducted every month and forcibly converted.[235] Many Hindus are continuing to flee Pakistan even now due to persecution.[236] Krishan Bheel, a Hindu member of the National Assembly of Pakistan, came into the news for manhandling Qari Gul Rehman after being taunted with a religious insult.[237]
Claim: Speech of a Hindu MP of Pakistan pleading for Mercy on Hindus (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-31)
Evidence (2023-01-31): In the context of multiple recent reports on forced conversion of Hindu girls into Islam in Pakistan, a video is being shared on social media claiming that a Hindu MP of Pakistan is begging for mercy on Hindus. Let’s verify the claim made in the post. [...] To sum it up, the person in the viral video is neither a Hindu nor an MP of Pakistan; he is a Christian and a member of the Provincial Assembly of Punjab in Pakistan who spoke about plight of minorities in Pakistan.
Claim: Speech of a Hindu MP of Pakistan pleading for Mercy on Hindus (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-31)
Evidence (2022-11-15): A video is doing the rounds of social media with users claiming it to be a "Hindu MP begging for mercy in Pakistan’s parliament to spare our (Hindu) daughters". In the video, you can see the "MP" pleading the case of a forced conversion of a 12-year-old girl to Islam and the indifference of the authorities concerned in front of the assembly’s speaker. [...] Newschecker first ran a keyword search for "Hindu MP Pakistan assembly", which did not throw up any news reports of such an incident. [...] The viral video of ‘Pakistani Hindu MP begging for mercy’ in their national assembly was found to be of Christian legislator’s outburst against forced religious conversions.
Claim: Speech of a Hindu MP of Pakistan pleading for Mercy on Hindus (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-31)
Evidence (2022-06-07): The Hindu community in Sindh and Balochistan remained vulnerable to targeted killings and kidnappings for ransom. On July 19, members of the Hindu community staged a sit-in in Khuzdar, Balochistan, to protest the July 18 killing of local Hindu trader Nanak Ram by unidentified assailants in the Wadh area of Khuzdar District. On July 31, Hindu business owner and member of the Khairpur Chamber of Commerce and Industries Raja Kishan Chand was killed by unknown gunmen in that city. In a statement, the Pakistan Hindu Council condemned the killing as well as two other July incidents of violence towards Hindu citizens in the district. [...] Hindu activists in Sindh reported discrimination against the Hindu community during COVID-19 food-relief efforts by private charities. In April, some members of the Hindu community in Karachi’s Lyari area were denied food packages provided by a local charity, according to local sources.
Claim: Speech of a Hindu MP of Pakistan pleading for Mercy on Hindus (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-31)
Evidence (2006-09-11): Militants have been responsible for a long string of massacres, attacks on minority Hindus and Sikhs, bombings, killings and attacks on schools. The most recent massacre was in May 2006, when thirty-five Hindus were killed in remote hamlets of Doda and Udhampur districts; police blamed the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba.[472] [...] Allow all Kashmiris displaced by the conflict, including Kashmiri Hindus, to return safely to their homes.
Claim: Speech of a Hindu MP of Pakistan pleading for Mercy on Hindus (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-31)
Evidence (2022-11-17): What are social media users claiming?: The two minutes and 20 second long video is being shared to claim that it shows a Hindu member of Parliament "begging for mercy in Pakistan Parliament" against forced religious conversion. [...] How did we find out?: Using relevant keywords, we looked for reports regarding a Hindu MP in Pakistan speaking about religious conversion but did not find any. [...] Conclusion: A video of Pakistan's MPA from Punjab, Tariq Masih Gill – who belongs to the Christian community – speaking about forced religious conversions is being shared to falsely claim that he is a Hindu Member of Parliament in Pakistan.
Claim: Speech of a Hindu MP of Pakistan pleading for Mercy on Hindus (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-31)
Evidence (2022-11-16): A video of a Pakistani minority leader speaking about forced Islamic conversions has been circulating on social media misleadingly claiming that it shows a Hindu politician begging for mercy with folded hands in the parliament of Pakistan. [...] The 2:20 minute-long viral video shows the leader speaking about forced Islamic conversions in the country to the speaker of the parliament. He can also be heard seeking for mercy with folded hands in a request to take action against such atrocities over the minorities in Pakistan. The video is captioned as, "See how a Hindu MP is begging for mercy in Pak Parliament with folded hands... that have mercy on us, spare our daughters... This video is dedicated to those secular people who give us knowledge on religion".
Claim: Speech of a Hindu MP of Pakistan pleading for Mercy on Hindus (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-31)
Evidence (2023-12-06): Savarkar submitted a minimum of five mercy petitions (MPs) in 1911, 1913, 1914, 1918, and 1920. Savarkarites claim that these were submitted not as an act of cowardice but "as an ardent follower of Shivaji, Savarkar wanted to die in action. Finding this the only way, he wrote six letters to the British pleading for his release." A perusal of the two available MPs will prove that there cannot be a lie worse than the claim that Savarkar’s MPs were in league with the tricks which Shivaji used to hoodwink the Mughal rulers successfully. The mercy petition dated 14th November, 1913 ended with the following words:
Claim: Speech of a Hindu MP of Pakistan pleading for Mercy on Hindus (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-31)
Evidence (2024-10-03): If some woman or child pleaded for mercy, people shouted: "Revenge for Meerut's chains, revenge for slavery, revenge for the ammunition shed. The vengeful sword then decapitated the pleading head[132] [...] - Malgonkar, Manohar (2008), The Men Who Killed Gandhi, Roli Books, ISBN 978-93-5194-083-8, archived from the original on 16 April 2021, retrieved 25 November 2019 - McKean, Lise (1996), Divine Enterprise: Gurus and the Hindu Nationalist Movement, University of Chicago Press, ISBN 978-0-226-56009-0, archived from the original on 15 February 2017, retrieved 13 February 2016 - Misra, Amalendu (1999), "Savarkar and the Discourse on Islam in Pre-Independent India", Journal of Asian History, 33 (2): 142–184, JSTOR 41933141 - Noorani, A.G. (8 April 2005), "Savarkar's Mercy Petition", Frontline - Palande, M.R., ed. (1958), Source Material for a History of the Freedom Movement of India (PDF), vol. 2, Maharashtra: Government of Maharashtra, archived (PDF) from the original on 14 October 2021, retrieved 25 January 2016 - Ranade, Sadashiv Rajaram (1924), A short biography of Swatantraveer Vinakarao Savarkar (in Marathi)
Claim: Speech of a Hindu MP of Pakistan pleading for Mercy on Hindus (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-31)
Evidence (2024-10-05): Sindhi folklore, literature, poetry, music came to be influenced by Sufi ideologies to a great extent and therefore Sindhi psyche has been ingrained with piousness and the veneration of saints and visits to Dargahs - ^ "Hindus under the official Muslims of Pakistan". Daily Times. 17 July 2020. Archived from the original on 1 January 2023. Retrieved 1 January 2023. [...] - ^ "Hindu Population (PK)". Pakistanhinducouncil.org.pk. Archived from the original on 15 August 2020. Retrieved 24 June 2022. : CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "Hindu's converge at Ramapir Mela near Karachi seeking divine help for their security - The Times of India". The Times of India. 26 September 2012. Archived from the original on 10 February 2023. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
Claim: Pervez Musharraf has said “Biggest strength of Pakistan is Indian Muslims, not the nuclear bombs. They are converting India into an Islamic nation by population explosion. India can repeal article 370 from Kashmir, India can build Ram Temple, India can win war against Pakistan, but India cannot prevent itself from becoming an Islamic nation”. (FACEBOOK POST, 2019-03-13)
Evidence (2019-03-13): Pervez Musharraf hasn’t made any such comments. No credible source was found to authenticate the claim. Hence the claim made in the post is FALSE.
Claim: Pervez Musharraf has said “Biggest strength of Pakistan is Indian Muslims, not the nuclear bombs. They are converting India into an Islamic nation by population explosion. India can repeal article 370 from Kashmir, India can build Ram Temple, India can win war against Pakistan, but India cannot prevent itself from becoming an Islamic nation”. (FACEBOOK POST, 2019-03-13)
Evidence (2023-02-05): Pervez Musharraf: Pakistan leader's love-hate relationship with India In 2001, Pervez Musharraf believed the time had come to "turn over a new leaf" in rebuilding the broken relationship between India and Pakistan. [...] However, India was always divided about Musharraf. Jaswant Singh wrote about dealing with Musharraf's "many incarnations". Was he a man of peace? Or was he a crafty populist, who took an appeasing attitude towards India even as he burnished his anti-India credentials by supporting Kashmir's movement for "self-determination"?
Claim: Pervez Musharraf has said “Biggest strength of Pakistan is Indian Muslims, not the nuclear bombs. They are converting India into an Islamic nation by population explosion. India can repeal article 370 from Kashmir, India can build Ram Temple, India can win war against Pakistan, but India cannot prevent itself from becoming an Islamic nation”. (FACEBOOK POST, 2019-03-13)
Evidence (2023-02-05): Pervez Musharraf: Pakistan leader's love-hate relationship with India - Published In 2001, Pervez Musharraf believed the time had come to "turn over a new leaf" in rebuilding the broken relationship between India and Pakistan. [...] However, India was always divided about Musharraf. Jaswant Singh wrote about dealing with Musharraf's "many incarnations". Was he a man of peace? Or was he a crafty populist, who took an appeasing attitude towards India even as he burnished his anti-India credentials by supporting Kashmir's movement for "self-determination"?
Claim: Pervez Musharraf has said “Biggest strength of Pakistan is Indian Muslims, not the nuclear bombs. They are converting India into an Islamic nation by population explosion. India can repeal article 370 from Kashmir, India can build Ram Temple, India can win war against Pakistan, but India cannot prevent itself from becoming an Islamic nation”. (FACEBOOK POST, 2019-03-13)
Evidence (2024-03-09): Relations between India and Pakistan further worsened in 2019 when Modi’s Hindu nationalist government revoked Article 370 of the Indian Constitution, which used to give Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir partial autonomy. [...] "Pakistan is at a critical point, something the new prime minister acknowledged in his speech. But it cannot transform itself unless it revises its approach and relationship with its neighbours, particularly India, and bring a fresh, objective mindset, viz a viz Jammu and Kashmir," he told Al Jazeera. [...] "Indian leadership is pursuing the goal of Hindu nationalism and has followed a no-contact policy with Pakistan," he told Al Jazeera. "The government should wait until Indians change their mind and show they want peaceful relations with Pakistan."
Claim: Pervez Musharraf has said “Biggest strength of Pakistan is Indian Muslims, not the nuclear bombs. They are converting India into an Islamic nation by population explosion. India can repeal article 370 from Kashmir, India can build Ram Temple, India can win war against Pakistan, but India cannot prevent itself from becoming an Islamic nation”. (FACEBOOK POST, 2019-03-13)
Evidence (2023-02-06): Fighting against India Musharraf fought in both the 1965 and 1971 India-Pakistan wars, the former as a second lieutenant and the latter as a company commander, as per The Times of India. In 1990, Musharraf, then a brigadier in the Pakistan Army, attended London’s prestigious Royal College of Defence Studies. As per FPJ, his classmates at the time included Major-generals BS Malik and Ashok Mehta of the Indian Army. According to the report, he’d often outshine his classmates when it came to his studies. Musharraf in his Master’s Degree thesis Impact of Arms Race in the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent outlined three major reasons for Pakistan and India’s unending conflict – Hatred, Kashmir, and water. As per India Today, Musharraf in his thesis noted that the hatred was ‘visceral’ and claimed Pakistan needed control over Jammu and Kashmir because its water flowed through it. As per The Guardian, the thesis ended with an impassioned plea for the countries to settle their disputes, reduce military troop levels and increase spending to fight poverty. The thesis earned him acclaim from Commandant General Sir Antony Walker, who called Musharraf one of his ‘finest’ students, as per FPJ. [...] Explained: General Pervez Musharraf's chequered history with India
Claim: Pervez Musharraf has said “Biggest strength of Pakistan is Indian Muslims, not the nuclear bombs. They are converting India into an Islamic nation by population explosion. India can repeal article 370 from Kashmir, India can build Ram Temple, India can win war against Pakistan, but India cannot prevent itself from becoming an Islamic nation”. (FACEBOOK POST, 2019-03-13)
Evidence (2023-02-06): Beyond the news: Pervez Musharraf, a dictator with democratic pretence [...] The opportunity to ask Musharraf searching question came during an all-party Indian delegation’s August, 2003 visit to Pakistan that captured popular imagination with saturation coverage in that country’s print and electronic media. It was at a meeting with the visiting leaders, including BJP MPs and others such as Lalu Prasad, that the general famously talked about ceasefire at the "blow of a whistle" on the LoC and the international borders. The promise fructified three months later, preparing ground for the January 2004 MoU. In his interaction with the Indian MPs, Musharraf was at his charming best, seeing an opening there for the moribund bilateral engagement. Taken in the most by Lalu Prasad’s celebration by the local media, he jocularly asked the RJD leader: "Hope you’re not planning to contest elections and make a political career here." The banter apart, the commando was left red-faced and speechless when a senior Indian journalist, on being introduced to him, said the tricolour angvastram looked good on his military regalia. As his birthday fell a day earlier, the stole was placed on his shoulder by the Congress’s Margaret Alva as a belated greeting.
Claim: Pervez Musharraf has said “Biggest strength of Pakistan is Indian Muslims, not the nuclear bombs. They are converting India into an Islamic nation by population explosion. India can repeal article 370 from Kashmir, India can build Ram Temple, India can win war against Pakistan, but India cannot prevent itself from becoming an Islamic nation”. (FACEBOOK POST, 2019-03-13)
Evidence (2024-10-05): India and Pakistan have a complex and largely hostile relationship that is rooted in a multitude of historical and political events, most notably the partition of British India in August 1947. Two years after World War II, the United Kingdom formally dissolved British India, dividing it into two new sovereign nations: the Union of India and Pakistan. The partitioning of the former British colony resulted in the displacement of up to 15 million people, with the death toll estimated to have reached between several hundred thousand and one million people as Hindus and Muslims migrated in opposite directions across the Radcliffe Line to reach India and Pakistan, respectively.[1] In 1950, India emerged as a secular republic with a Hindu-majority population and a large Muslim minority. Shortly afterwards, in 1956, Pakistan emerged as an Islamic republic with a Muslim-majority population and a large Hindu minority;[2][3] it later lost most of its Hindu population following its defeat in the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, which saw the secession of East Pakistan as the independent country of Bangladesh. [...] Countries including India and the United States have demanded that Pakistan stop using its territory as a base for terrorist groups following multiple terrorist attacks by Islamic jihadists in Kashmir and other parts of India.[62] The Pakistani government has denied the accusation and accused so-called "state-backed terror" in India.[63]
Claim: Pervez Musharraf has said “Biggest strength of Pakistan is Indian Muslims, not the nuclear bombs. They are converting India into an Islamic nation by population explosion. India can repeal article 370 from Kashmir, India can build Ram Temple, India can win war against Pakistan, but India cannot prevent itself from becoming an Islamic nation”. (FACEBOOK POST, 2019-03-13)
Evidence (2024-01-01): Pervez Musharraf, president of Pakistan, 1943 — 2023 was Dkr4188 now Dkr1999 for your first year, equivalent to Dkr166.58 per month. Make up your own mind. Build robust opinions with the FT’s trusted journalism. Take this offer before 24 October. [...] Complete digital access to quality FT journalism with expert analysis from industry leaders. Pay a year upfront and save 20%. [...] Terms & Conditions apply
Claim: Pervez Musharraf has said “Biggest strength of Pakistan is Indian Muslims, not the nuclear bombs. They are converting India into an Islamic nation by population explosion. India can repeal article 370 from Kashmir, India can build Ram Temple, India can win war against Pakistan, but India cannot prevent itself from becoming an Islamic nation”. (FACEBOOK POST, 2019-03-13)
Evidence (2023-02-05): Pervez Musharraf, who passed away in Dubai on Sunday after prolonged illness, had a strong connection to India despite being the architect of the Kargil War and straining relations to nearly breaking point over the Kashmir dispute, cross-border terrorism and nuclear weapons. Musharraf's complicated ties with India:- Musharraf was born in August 1943 to a middle-class family of Urdu-speaking Mohajir (immigrant) parents in Old Delhi's Daryaganj. The ‘Neharwali Haveli’ was bought by Musharraf's grandfather Qazi Mohtashimuddin following his retirement as the commissioner of Punjab. The property is now mostly in ruins. [...] The image of Musharraf being treated as a criminal suspect shocked Pakistan, where military generals long have been considered above the law. Pakistan allowed him to leave the country on bail to Dubai in 2016 for medical treatment and he remained there after facing a later-overturned death sentence.
Claim: Pervez Musharraf has said “Biggest strength of Pakistan is Indian Muslims, not the nuclear bombs. They are converting India into an Islamic nation by population explosion. India can repeal article 370 from Kashmir, India can build Ram Temple, India can win war against Pakistan, but India cannot prevent itself from becoming an Islamic nation”. (FACEBOOK POST, 2019-03-13)
Evidence (2024-09-22): Musharraf publicly said that Pakistanis should not be India-centric in their worldview but periodically reasserted the claim that India was a permanent threat to Pakistan’s existence. His proclamations about ‘enlightened moderation’ were contradicted, on one occasion, by the arrest of over a thousand people under a counter-terrorism law for flying kites in the province of Punjab. [...] Let us examine a few examples of Musharraf’s contradictory positions. He asserted that he wanted peace with India and wanted Pakistanis to change their India-centric worldview. But he did little to examine or change the sources of Pakistan’s India obsession. In his mind, India was still the eternal enemy and Jammu and Kashmir the unresolved business from Partition. With that focus, how he expected Pakistanis to change their attitude toward India remains a mystery. [...] The India-centric view of Pakistanis flows from the centrality of the army in their lives and the continuous projection of an Indian threat in almost all public discourse. Musharraf’s deeply held prejudice that the army’s pre-eminence in Pakistani life could not be compromised led to the dichotomy in calling for abandoning the obsession with India and promising to maintain the balance of power against it at the same time.
Claim: Pervez Musharraf has said “Biggest strength of Pakistan is Indian Muslims, not the nuclear bombs. They are converting India into an Islamic nation by population explosion. India can repeal article 370 from Kashmir, India can build Ram Temple, India can win war against Pakistan, but India cannot prevent itself from becoming an Islamic nation”. (FACEBOOK POST, 2019-03-13)
Evidence (2023-02-05): Pervez Musharraf was one of Pakistan’s better dictators [...] WHEN PERVEZ MUSHARRAF was appointed army chief of Pakistan in 1998, he was considered a surprising choice. A hot-headed former artilleryman, with a reputation for bravery under Indian fire and occasional indiscipline, he was number three on a list of generals that Nawaz Sharif, then prime minister, had been given to pick from. He was also an outlier in a top brass dominated by ethnic Punjabis and Pushtuns. Mr Musharraf hailed from the southern Pakistani city of Karachi; his Urdu-speaking family had migrated there in 1947 from Delhi, where he was born. Mr Sharif, it was clear, envisaged Mr Musharraf as a weak army chief whom he could control. [...] Amid an explosive data and AI boom the superpower contest hots up
Claim: Pervez Musharraf has said “Biggest strength of Pakistan is Indian Muslims, not the nuclear bombs. They are converting India into an Islamic nation by population explosion. India can repeal article 370 from Kashmir, India can build Ram Temple, India can win war against Pakistan, but India cannot prevent itself from becoming an Islamic nation”. (FACEBOOK POST, 2019-03-13)
Evidence (2023-02-10): Musharraf’s Legacy: Peace with India and Western Reliance on Pakistan [...] Musharraf’s greatest legacy might be demonstrated by the outpouring of respect from India following his death [...] Musharraf’s greatest legacy might be demonstrated by the outpouring of respect from India following his death – despite his waging of the Kargil war in 1999. According to many Indian leaders, Musharraf came closest to reaching an enduring peace with his arch-rivals. While no fans of Musharraf, Indian media showed a grudging respect for their former foe, referring to him as the man who could deliver peace despite waging war. And it was the hard-line Bharatiya Janata Party that sat and spoke to Musharraf – perhaps the lasting legacy of his strategic nuance in the region. Musharraf’s favourite protégé, Major-General Isfandiyar Patuadi, former Director-General-Analysis of the Inter-Services Intelligence, said that ‘Musharraf was always open to new ideas from and appreciative of non-traditional thinking. He will be remembered for his four-point formula on lessening tensions between Pakistan and India. It was and still is the only workable mechanism to stabilise our region. It will be his legacy’.