Kulkarni lauds treatment of Hindu minority in Pakistan

Karachi
Speaking at the launch of the book “Neither a Hawk nor a Dove” by Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri at a hotel on Monday, Observer Research Foundation Chairman Sudheendra Kulkarni spoke highly of the way the Hindu minority was treated in Pakistan.
Kulkarni, whose face was blackened with paint by Shiv Sena activists in Mumbai on October 12 for organising the launch of Kasuri’s book there, said he visited the Swami Narayan temple in Karachi the other day and met a whole lot of Hindu devotees there. He said all of them were contented with their condition and told him that despite their religious difference, they were treated as equal citizens and faced no discrimination. He said they all told him they were proud to be Pakistanis. In reply to a query as to what message he would be carrying for the Shiv Sena, he said he would tell them that while they (the Shiv Sena) acted as the monopolists of Hinduism and the Marathis, he met so many Marathi-speaking Hindus in Karachi and they all told him how happy they were to be in Pakistan.