Pakistan's former legislator from Imran Khan's celebration seeks asylum in India

A former legislator from Pakistan prime Minister Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) birthday party has sought asylum in India, claiming that minorities had been deprived of their rights in the neighbouring nation.

Baldev Kumar, 43, together with his spouse and two babies got here to India closing month and are right now staying at Khanna in Punjab's Ludhiana district.

"I actually have come right here to searching for asylum and should request (prime Minister Narendra) Modi Sahib to help us," Kumar instructed journalists in Khanna on Tuesday.

When asked why he left his nation and got here to India, Kumar said, "the entire world is watching what the situation is in Pakistan now. We have been expecting from (Pakistan PM Imran) Khan Sahib that once he came to energy, the destiny of Pakistan will change." He claimed that Imran did not achieve this.

Kumar become a former Member of the Provincial meeting from Barikot seat in Khyber's Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan.

"you're gazing the situation in Pakistan and that i am also observing the equal. That day our Sikh woman become kidnapped. Such issues should still no longer take location," pointed out the former legislator.

primarily, in Pakistan's Punjab province, a teenage Sikh lady, daughter of a Gurdwara priest there, was abducted and forcibly transformed to Islam at gunpoint before she turned into married to a Muslim man, her family unit had alleged.

A video of the lady's household had long past viral on social media during which one in every of her members of the family can be viewed alleging that a gaggle of men attacked their apartment, abducted the Sikh woman and forcibly transformed her to Islam.

Kumar mentioned, "had minorities been getting rights in Pakistan, such situation should not have arisen," adding that he has requested his other members of the family to go away Pakistan.

Kumar noted that there have been a few households in Sindh and Nankana Sahib, who informed him that if he acquired asylum there, they would additionally are attempting to depart Pakistan.

India had expressed potent concerns over the incidents of pressured conversion and asked the neighbouring nation to take remedial action to stop such cases.