After rising violence against Christians on pretext to blasphemy laws; The Pakistani Christian Christians started fleeing from Pakistan in 2006 to safe their lives.
As, the champions of Human Right countries in West denied Christians visitor or non-immigrant visa as issues to wealthy and influential Pakistani Muslims who later pose political oppression and seek asylum, the truly persecuted Christian headed towards Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and Hong Kong which had easy visa policy and cheap airfare.
It is on record that when Christian village Shanti Nagar was attacked by Muslim mob on pretext to blasphemy, burning homes, Churches and health facilities in 1997, none of Christian victim family was issued visa by any European country, even the hundreds of effected families observed sit-in Islamabad to invite attention of diplomats.
There was 20% population of Hindus in Pakistan on time of partition of sub-continent of India in 1947 and 13% of Christians which is claimed to by only 4% by statistical division of government of Pakistan after census of 1988, because majority of Hindus from Sindh province of Pakistan fled to India but Pakistani Christians have no land to flee because Western Countries whom they viewed as brothers under Holy Book accepted Pakistani Muslim economic migrants nor Christians.
According to sources of Pakistan Christian Post, there are more than 10,000 Pakistani Christian asylum seekers in Thailand, about 4,000 in Malaysia, more than 2,000 in Sri Lanka and in figure of hundreds in Singapore and Hong Kong, who are duly registered with offices of United Nations Refugee Commission UNHCR in respective countries.
In 2014, Pakistan government pressured government of Sri Lanka to deport Pakistani Christian and Ahmedi asylum seekers registered with UNHCR Colombo and to pose visa restrictions for Pakistani visitors who enjoyed entry on arrival from decades.
As Pakistani government have provided logistic support to Sri Lankan army to crush Tamil Tiger insurgency, in reward become successful to convince it to have visa restrictions for Pakistani individuals to stop flow of Pakistani Asylum seekers.
In 1990, when first victim of blasphemy was killed by poisoning in Lahore jail and arrest under blasphemy started rising, a Christian Non-Governmental organization NGO named CLAAS surface which received huge funding’s from human right organizations to support cases of Christian blasphemy victims in Pakistan. The CLAAS became successful to settle few blasphemy victims in Western countries with help of their donors but we can count such numbers on fingers.
The formation of an NGO became a customary among Pakistani Christians when violence rose against Christians on accusations of blasphemy on sad incidents of firing and bombing Churches, setting on fire Christian colonies, gunning down pastors and brutal broad daylight murder of blasphemy accused in court compounds.
All such Christian NGO,s funded by Western countries remained limited to fighting cases of blasphemy victims and preparing reports for their donors including CLAAS when thousands of Christians started fleeing from Pakistan to South Asian and Far East Southern Asian countries after 2006. The Pakistani Christian asylum seekers in different South East Asian countries faced many problems but none of such NGO stepped forward to solve issues of them because such deed might have brought them in bad books of government of Pakistan which never appreciated mass migration of individuals of Pakistani Christians due to controversial legislations.
In such difficult situation, World Vision in Progress WVIP headed by Mr. Farrukh Saif emerged as leading entity to support blasphemy victims to settle in South and South Eastern Asian countries with establishment of safe houses and provision of daily needs.
Hundreds of Pakistani Christian asylum seekers were helped by Farrukh Saif to feed during proceedings of their refugee cases with UNHCR while all other Christian NGO never took note of their daily needs under pressure of government.
When Sri Lankan government imposed visa requirements for Pakistani citizen, Mr. Farrukh Saif commissioned his center in Bangkok where thousands of Pakistani Christians asylum seekers were facing dire situation.
The Farrukh Saif Foundation FSF Bangkok office provided food packages, paid bail bonds for arrested Pakistani Christian asylum seekers and rent of homes of families who were left alone by other organizations.
After successfully reducing flow of Christian asylum seekers in Sri Lanka, the next target of Pakistan government was Thailand where we observed crackdown and mass arrest of Pakistani Christian asylum seekers in year 2014-15.
Pakistan Christian Post have reported on behalf of reliable sources in many posts that Pakistani establishment engaged many Christian parliamentarians, religious leaders and Christian NGO workers through Inter-Services Intelligence ISI and Intelligence Bureau IB to arrange visits of their such Christian tools to Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Thailand to collect data of Pakistani Christian asylum seekers.
After collecting data of Pakistani Christian Asylum Seekers through their Christian tools, the Pakistan Establishment provided misinformation to offices of UNHCR in respective countries to create difficulties for Pakistani Christian Asylum seekers to prove that these applicants have not genuine cases and had been enjoying due equal rights in Pakistan; such voices of enjoyment of equal rights were also heard by some Christian agents of Pakistan governments on International Forums.
Nazir S Bhatti said “It was very sad and socking news of termination of Farrukh Saif FSF operation led by Mr. Farrukh Saif in Bangkok which was only ray of hope for Pakistani Christian Asylum seekers who were receiving food packages, rent of homes, legal and financial help for asylum seekers in Immigration Detention Centers and raising voice for their rights to seek asylum on International Forums and on media which was disliked by Government of Pakistan”
“We must not stab in back of our Christian activists like Farrukh Saif unless our nation will perish and such government tools will be recorded as traitors when history of Pakistani Christian will be written” added Nazir Bhatti
According to sources of Pakistan Christian Post, the Christian agents of Pakistan Embassy in Bangkok and IB and ISI agents directly threatened to Mr. Farrukh Saif to pack up his operation to support Pakistani Asylum Seekers unless their Christian agents will create immense problems for him in month of May, 2015.
PCC urged FSF Chief Mr. Farrukh Saif to keep his Bangkok office operational to perform his noble cause for Pakistani Christian Asylum Seekers and assured him that our support will always be with him and FSF.
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