Pakistan police arrest militants for Hindu killing
Source: Reuters
HYDERABAD, Pakistan, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Police in Pakistan have found the remains of a Hindu man at an Islamic religious school and arrested two men linked to a banned Islamist militant group in connection with the killing, police said on Wednesday. Police said the burnt and dismembered body of Grish Kumar, the son of a Hindu trader, was found on Wednesday at the madrasa, or religious school, in Kotri town, in the southern province of Sindh. "The two arrested militants have links with the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen," said Khalid Mustafa Korai, a senior investigating officer. The outlawed Harkat-ul-Mujahideen is fighting Indian rule in the disputed Kashmir region. The two arrested men were a father and son who ran the madrasa, he said. "These men have said they were brainwashed by another militant named Sohail of the same group to target Hindus living in the province," Korai said. Police were seeking Sohail in a town near the Indian border, he said. Before the independence of Muslim Pakistan and mostly Hindu India in 1947, many Hindus lived in what is now Pakistan. Most moved to India upon independence and Hindus are now a tiny minority in Pakistan. Police said Kumar was kidnapped in August in the southern city of Hyderabad. "We had been following this case for a while and eventually the links led us to the madrasa," Korai said. According to government figures, about 1.8 million Hindus live in Pakistan, the majority in Sindh province.
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