{"id":9682,"date":"2010-07-09T16:33:13","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T16:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2010\/07\/hounded-hindus-take-shelter-karachi-cattle-pen-after-drinking-water-mosque\/"},"modified":"2010-07-09T16:33:13","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T16:33:13","slug":"hounded-hindus-take-shelter-karachi-cattle-pen-after-drinking-water-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2010\/07\/hounded-hindus-take-shelter-karachi-cattle-pen-after-drinking-water-mosque\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Hounded&#8217; Hindus take shelter in Karachi cattle pen after drinking water from mosque"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p> In an incident which showcases the brutal hatred with which Hindus are seen in Pakistan, at least 60 members of the minority community, including women and children, were forced to abandon their house in Karachi\u2019s Memon Goth area just because a Hindu boy drank water from a cooler outside a mosque.<\/p>\n<p>Local tribesman, who hold a good clout in the area, thrashed several Hindus forcing them to run away and take shelter in a near by cattle pen, The News reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll hell broke loose when my son, Dinesh, who looked after chickens in a farm, drank water from a cooler outside a mosque. Upon seeing him do that, the people of the area started beating him up,\u201d said Meerumal, a resident of the area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLater, around 150 tribesmen attacked us, injuring seven of our people, who were taken to the Jinnah Hospital,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>One of the injured, Heera, said that another 400 families of the area were also being threatened to leave their households and settle elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur people are even scared of going out of their houses. 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