By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Hyderabad: The escalated tension at Line of Control (LoC) between India and Pakistan has engulfed historic ‘Numaish,’ All India Industrial exhibition in Hyderabad. Right wing Hindu groups have staged a protest in front of the main gate of exhibition ground to close down Pakistani stalls in the exhibition.
Activists of right wing Hindu groups were demanding that Pakistani nationals should not be allowed to carry their business on Indian soil as their nation has ‘insulted’ India by beheading and killing its soldiers.
About 50 activists of Bhartiya Janta Yuva Morcha, Vishwa Hindu Parishad, and Bajrang Dal staged demonstration and gave 24 hours ultimatum to the organizing committee of AIIE to evacuate Pakistani stalls. Right wing Hindu Activists also threatened AIIE of consequences if those Pakistani stalls are not vacated.
Security police present at the exhibition venue immediately arrested and taken those activists into preventive custody, soon they were let off.
Organizing committee, however, succumbed to the pressure of right wing Hindu activists and anticipating more protests decided to remove Pakistani stalls from 72 year old historic exhibition of Hyderabad.
There were 15 small Pakistani stalls under one roof stand, selling dry fruits, clothes, crockery, footwear, salwar materials, saris for women, and handicrafts including some precious stones from internal Sindh and Punjab.
But this is not the first time Pakistani stalls bear the brunt of tension between India and Pakistan. After 2006 Mumbai bombings Pakistani stalls were evacuated from the exhibition.
After the gap of six years Pakistani stalls which are a big hit among Hyderabadis were allowed to carry on business that too was short lived due to the fragile peace between both nations.