Twenty-seven Hindu families from the troubled province of Balochistan in Pakistan have sought political asylum at the Indian high commission in Islamabad. These families have cited an increase in rapes, kidnappings, and murders of members of their community, and an unresponsive administration.
It is true that Pakistan has not worked out a harmonious way of integrating its minorities, an issue that its leaders and people have to solve for themselves. Christians experience the same sense of insecurity that the affected Hindu and Sikh families have experienced in recent times.