Rajasthan Government encourages illegal infiltration of Pakistani Muslims in Bikaner's border areas

apr 9th, 2010

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Jivan Ongole Says:
March 26th, 2010 at 12:51 pm

 

I live in Bikaner and work in Malaria Department. Have to visit border villages. In about 30 villages there has been a huge increment of Pakistani Muslim population. They are Pir Pagara followers. In Rajasthan borders also there are Pir Pagara followers (that give shelter and help the infiltrators blend in easily). Congress is encouraging them by giving all facilities. Hindu refugees are pitifully neglected.

 

 

Note: Pir Pagara is the title given to the leader of Sunni Muslim Sufi order of Hurs in Sindh province of Pakistan.

 

To know how anti-India and Islamic fundamentalists these Pir Pagara followers are, one must read the history of the 1965 India-Pakistan war.

 

In 1965 war between India and Pakistan, the latter's Southern desert sector was a mere sideshow to the major battles fought in the Punjab and in Kashmir. However the Indian Army had placed two divisions in the desert with the aim of tying down Pakistani troops.

Facing a shortage of troops and unable to divert any substantial forces from the Punjab and Kashmir sectors (where the main Indian thrust has come), the commander of the Pakistan Rangers, Brigadier Khuda Dad Khan, turned to local help. Pir Pagara's followers (Hurs) volunteered in droves for the Pakistani Rangers. Given only basic training and light weapons, the Hurs nevertheless gave a fine account of themselves in the conflict. Fighting alongside Rangers and regular Pakistani army units (known collectively as the Desert Force), the Hurs used their knowledge of the desert to good effect and helped to blunt the Indian offensive. But, perhaps their most famous (and militarily important) action was the capture of the Indian fort of Kishangarh, a feature located several kilometers inside India.