Union Ministry for Tourism and Culture in India should arrange special pilgrimage trips for Pakistani Hindus on regular basis. These trips can be of various types depending on economic status of desiring Hindu pilgrims from Pakistan.
IT REFERS to long wait of forty years ending when a group of Pakistani Hindus could come to India for immersion of ashes of their family-members in the holy Ganges. It was unfair on part of successive Indian governments that they failed to respect religious sentiments of Hindus settled across the border on humanitarian grounds by taking several decades in granting visa.
Even Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled National Democratic Alliance government which projected itself as non pseudo-secular could not provide visa to Pakistani Hindus in its regime.
Organisations like Rotary International should own responsibility for co-ordinating formalities in India and Pakistan for such religious rites of Pakistani Hindus on annual basis.
Also Union Ministry for Tourism and Culture in India should arrange special pilgrimage trips for Pakistani Hindus on regular basis. These trips can be of various types depending on economic status of desiring Hindu pilgrims from Pakistan. Such trips can specially include Haridwar so that immersing of ashes may not have to be waited so long by Pakistani Hindus.