Minority Hindus in Pakistan continue to face religious persecution. Two Hindus have been found hanging inside a law enforcement official’s room in the Sindh province of Pakistan.

According to the reports, the girls were identified ad Babita Meghawar and her relative Dongar Meghawar—were found hanging from the ceiling in a room of a police officer ASI Gul Mohammad Sand in Mithi, Tharparker, Sindh. 

Pakistani activist and lawyer Rahat Austin has reported that Babita was the sister-in-law of Dongar Meghawar and they both were tortured before being murdered.

Earlier, Hundreds of Muslims attacked and set fire to a Hindu temple in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, police and witnesses said.

The incident took place in a remote village in Karak district, some 100km (62 miles) southeast of Peshawar, the capital of the northwestern province of Khyber Pakthunkhwa.

Discrimination and violence against religious minorities is commonplace in Pakistan, where Muslims make up 97 percent of the population and Hindus just approximately 2 percent.

Earlier this month, the United States placed Pakistan on a list of “countries of particular concern” for religious freedom violations.

The country’s human rights minister, Shireen Mazari, said the government has a responsibility to “ensure safety and security of all our citizens and their places of worship”.

Mazari said the local authorities had registered the incident and “further action being taken”.

The temple was vandalised and demolished in 1997 but, in 2015, the Supreme Court ordered its restoration.

Pakistan has approximately eight million Hindus, the majority of whom are based in the southern province of Sindh, near the border with India.

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