{"id":9171,"date":"2010-06-22T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/06\/22\/pakistani-hindus-feel-pressure-to-convert-to-islam\/"},"modified":"2010-06-22T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T12:00:00","slug":"pakistani-hindus-feel-pressure-to-convert-to-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/06\/22\/pakistani-hindus-feel-pressure-to-convert-to-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani Hindus Feel Pressure to Convert To Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/15970\/57-hindus-convert-to-islam-in-10-days\/\">tribune.com.pk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SIALKOT, PAKISTAN, May 25, 2010: A total of 57 Hindus have converted to Islam since May 14 in Sialkot. The people belong to adjacent Pasroor town and embraced Islam to &#8220;survive in the society,&#8221; their Hindu relatives told The Express Tribune on Monday. Mangut Ram, a close relative of some of the new converts, said that 35 members of a family embraced Islam because they were under pressure from employers. <\/p>\n<p>He said four Hindu brothers along with their families lived in the village of Nikki Pindi. Two of them and their families embraced Islam on May 14 in a local mosque (Haidri Mosque) in the village. Ram said that Hans Raj, Kans Raj, Meena\/Kartar and Sardari Lal along with his with nephews and sons worked at an eatery in Karachi.<\/p>\n<p>Ram said that his co workers often spoke against Hindus in Karachi where his family worked. &#8220;The owner of the shop where I worked said that after a few months of his employing me the sales dropped drastically because people were avoiding purchasing and eating edibles prepared by Hindus, said Ram&#8221;. Sardari Lal and his brother Meena\/Kartar worked at a sweets shops for several years and made a decent living. Other Muslims employees of the nearby shops discriminated against them and persecuted them. The shop owner was forced to think about their future at his establishment. &#8220;That was when the two brothers and their families decided to embrace Islam in order to keep their jobs and be secure,&#8221; Ram added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: tribune.com.pk SIALKOT, PAKISTAN, May 25, 2010: A total of 57 Hindus have converted to Islam since May 14 in,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}