Minority Persecution in Pakistan: After being accused by the notorious Pir Sarhindi group of anti-Islam actions and dealing as an “Indian agent”, Shiva Kachhi, a famous Hindu rights activist in Pakistan, has reportedly been receiving life threats.
He has publicly expressed his fears, alleging that extremist factions are plotting in opposition to him. “Will our establishments and the federal government take discover after I’m killed? I’m receiving threats of being beheaded. I could be killed at any second,” he wrote on X.
The threats, he says, are related to his work supporting Hindu ladies in Sindh who’ve been kidnapped and forcibly transformed. “These concerned in forcibly changing Hindu ladies, the Sarhindi group, are falsely accusing me of being anti-Islam and anti-state. They need to have me killed similar to Dr. Shahnawaz Kumbhar,” he defined.
He referenced the killing of Dr. Kumbhar, a Sindh-based physician who was murdered after being accused of blasphemy, as a warning of what may occur if authorities fail to behave.
“My solely ‘crime’ is that I increase my voice for Sindhi Hindu ladies. I’ve supported them and have already reunited dozens of kidnapped ladies, who had been forcibly transformed after abduction, with their households. We have now all the time protested, at each the nationwide and worldwide stage, in opposition to the growing incidents of abduction and compelled spiritual conversion of underage ladies,” he mentioned.
“Will our establishments and the federal government take discover after I’m killed?
I’m receiving threats of being beheaded. I could be killed at any second.”کیا میرے مارے جانے کے بعد ہمارے ادارے اور حکومت نوٹیس لے گی
مجھے سر کاٹ کے مارنے جیسی دھمکیان مل رہی ہین کسی بھی وقت مین مارا جا… https://t.co/Q0gv4NXjLo
— Shiva Kachhi (دراوڙ) (@FaqirShiva) December 11, 2025
He has referred to as on Pakistan’s state establishments, together with each the Sindh provincial authorities and the federal authorities, to take quick motion and guarantee justice for victims.
Shiva insists that his work is rooted in human rights and compassion, not politics. Emphasising the urgency of the state of affairs, he mentioned, “State establishments, the Sindh authorities, and the federal authorities ought to take quick discover and supply justice.”
He runs an NGO referred to as Darawer Ittehad Pakistan, which works on behalf of non secular minorities and has documented varied circumstances by which Hindu ladies had been allegedly kidnapped, coerced into spiritual conversion and subsequently married off to males of different faiths.
Such alleged practices throughout Sindh have fuelled worry and outrage throughout the Hindu group within the nation.
Lately, for instance, a Hindu girl and her younger daughter had been reportedly kidnapped in Karachi’s Sindhi Mohalla, inflicting worry in the area people that they’d be forcibly transformed and married off.
Shiva says he helped get a primary data report (FIR) registered with the police and has repeatedly appealed to senior officers to make sure the safety of minorities and to research such crimes.
Regardless of repeatedly elevating the difficulty with regulation enforcement, he says the state of affairs has escalated. He claimed that the Pir Sarhindi group, which is allegedly behind many compelled conversions, has intensified marketing campaign in opposition to him. This adopted his efforts in registering circumstances in opposition to their members, together with Pir Ajaz Sarhindi, who reportedly officiated the compelled marriage of a minor woman named Sonia.
Shiva mentioned the group has labelled him as a traitor and referred to as for violent retaliation in opposition to him.
Shiva insisted his activism is peaceable and focussed on human rights, saying he has by no means made derogatory feedback about any faith. “The reality is that I’ve by no means made any feedback in opposition to Islam or different faiths,” he mentioned.
He has filed formal complaints with the police relating to the alleged loss of life threats and requested for state safety.