Over 7300 Pakistanis have applied for Indian Citizenship: Ministry of Home Affairs

New Delhi: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has released its latest data in which they mentioned that around 7300 Pakistanis have applied for Indian Citizenship. Around 70 percent of applications pending for Indian citizenship are from Pakistan.

In a reply to the details of current applicants for Indian citizenship, including the data of their current citizenship asked by Member of Parliament Abdul Wahab on Wednesday, Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai mentioned that out of the 10,635 applicants who applied for Indian citizenship till December 14, 2021, as many as 7,306 were from Pakistan.

The Minister further said that there were 1,152 applications pending from Afghanistan, followed by 428 from Stateless, 223 from Sri Lanka and the USA, 189 from Nepal, and 161 from Bangladesh. As many as 10 applicants from China had applied for Indian citizenship. The power to grant Indian citizenship lies with the MHA which approves the application after detailed verification and scrutiny.

However, Minorities in Pakistan are very unsafe from its Security forces and the majority population of the country. Extremists in Pakistan are forcing Minorities to accept Islam or die and some extremists are abducting Hindu and other girls also.

(_Vinayak)