Sikhs protest against 1984 Golden Temple carnage

LAHORE: Members of Sikh community held a protest demonstration in front of Punjab Assembly on Saturday against 1984 Golden Temple carnage in India.

Thousands of Sikhs were killed in series of mob attacks on the community in India in response to the assassination of former prime minister Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards.

Demanding of Pakistan government to raise voice against the atrocity in the United Nations, the community presented a memorandum in Punjab Assembly.

The protesters, including women, gathered in hundreds outside the provincial assembly building and also staged a protest camp. They paid homage to those died in the 1984 riots and shouted slogans against Indian government.

Sardar Shaam Singh, a community elder belonging to “Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee”, said that Sikhs were living safely in Pakistan and India was doing an unfounded and fabricated propaganda against the country.