Ex-MLA of Imran’s PTI wants political asylum in India, says ‘Hindus, Sikhs Being Killed’ in Pak

TIL Desk/World/Delhi/ Former Hindu lawmaker from Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, Baldev Kumar, on Tuesday, sought political asylum from New Delhi. He is staying with his wife Bhavana and two children in his in-laws’ house in Punjab’s Khanna town for over a month.

“Minorities in Pakistan are not feeling secure and they have been denied rights. There is an increase in atrocities and target killings. I was put behind bars for two years,” the former MLA from Barikot (reserved) seat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly told reporters in Khanna, some 100 km from the state capital here. He said he won’t go back to Pakistan.

“I came here with my full conscious mind. I am requesting (Prime Minister Narendra) Modi saab to grant me asylum and provide me security,” he said. Kumar, the 43-year-old turbaned man, said minorities were being prosecuted in Pakistan. He said killings of Hindu and Sikh leaders were being carried out.