A father and son from India have requested asylum from Pakistani authorities after being attacked by "Hindu terrorists" in their own country.
Mohammad Hasnain, 70, and Ishaq Amir, 31, both New Delhi residents, had planned to travel to Pakistan after being repeatedly attacked by "Hindu terrorists."
On September 5, the father and son pair left for Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), where they applied for an Afghan visa two days later. On September 8, they arrived in Kabul, caught a flight to Kandahar, and then took a cab to Spin Boldak, where the Pakistan-Afghanistan border is located.
They said that a travel agent helped them cross into Pakistan from the Chaman border. The two bribed a Pakistani cab driver with Rs60,000 to drop them off at Hub after entering Pakistan; from there, they took a rickshaw into Karachi.
They notified the police when they got to Karachi, who then sent them to an Edhi center.
While talking to a private news channel, both father and son stated that they were residing at the Edhi facility in Sohrab Goth. They continued by saying that Muslims in India are being persecuted and do not want to return.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a Hindu nationalist party led by Narendra Modi, came to power in 2015. Since then, religious prejudice in India, the largest democracy in the world, has increased to a "frightening" level.
The US State Department identified various atrocities against India's religious minorities, including Muslims and Christians, in its yearly reports on religious freedom. India is a country of more than a billion people.
Human rights organizations assert that Modi's government has encouraged discriminatory religious nationalism against Muslims, Christians, and Sikhs.