2009 tweet of PM Modi on Pakistan goes viral, this is what he had tweeted

As protests erupted in Pakistan after the earlier prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan was arrested, an earlier tweet of Prime Minister Narendra Modi about Pakistan goes viral with Indian netizens reacting to it. 

“Brothers and sisters, you’ll must be watching the news coming out from Pakistan on television,” Narendra Modi tweeted on 4th May in 2009. 

The viral tweet sparked speculation regarding what was the “news” coming out from Pakistan. To uncover this out, OpIndia checked the Twitter timeline of PM Modi and situated some tweets posted minutes after the viral one.

Brothers and sisters, you’ll need to be watching the knowledge coming out from Pakistan on television.

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) May 4, 2009

In one different tweet posted by the then chief minister of Gujarat on the equivalent day, he had requested for proof from the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh if his authorities was not weak.

“I wish to ask the Prime Minister, are you not weak? If indeed you are a strong government, the country needs proof of that,” Modi tweeted.

I need to ask the Prime Minister, are you not weak? If definitely you are a sturdy authorities, the nation desires proof of that.

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) May 4, 2009

Back then Modi raised the problem of the persecution of Pakistani Sikhs by the Talibani terrorists as is obvious from this tweet, “The Taliban is persecuting my Sikh brothers, is destroying Gurudwaras, the persecution that Guru Gobind Singh had borne,” in continuation to this, Modi wrote one different tweet which study, “that persecution is once again being inflicted by the Taliban on Pakistan’s soil. Prime Minister, tell me what has your government done?”

The Taliban is persecuting my Sikh brothers, is destroying Gurudwaras, the persecution that Guru Gobind Singh had borne,

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) May 4, 2009

that persecution is as quickly as as soon as extra being inflicted by the Taliban on Pakistan’s soil. Prime Minister, inform me what has your authorities completed?

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) May 4, 2009

To understand the background, it is important to first research regarding the events in Pakistan that prompted Modi to publish these tweets in the mean time 14 years previously.

Taliban pressured Hindus and Sikhs to pay the ‘Jaziya’ tax

Back in 2009, the Taliban wanted to impose Islamic Sharia regulation all through Pakistan and purchase Jaziya, an Islamic tax collected from non-Muslims. Jaziya was a tax imposed even in India all through the reign of Islamic tyrants like Aurangzeb. In February of the yr 2009, the Taliban and Pakistan’s native administration struck a controversial ‘peace deal’ to comprehend a eternal ceasefire inside the restive north-western Swat Valley. As per the ‘deal’, the provincial authorities had provided to reinstate Sharia regulation in Malakand inside the Taliban agreed to a ceasefire. 

The deal could not remaining prolonged as a result of the Taliban attacked a Pakistan army convoy in Swat Valley. The Talibani terrorists had moreover entered the Buner district to impose Islamic Sharia regulation. Following this, the Pakistan Army in May had launched an operation in opposition to the Taliban and killed spherical 80 Talibani terrorists inside the Buner house. Talibanis had captured over 2000 villagers to utilize them as human shields in opposition to army assaults. Moreover, the Taliban had rejected the establishing of a Sharia-compliant appellate courtroom by the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) authorities citing it as a unilateral selection by the federal authorities.

Taliban had moreover secured administration of the Swat Valley space and subjected Hindus and Sikhs to all sorts of discrimination along with the imposition of Jaziya and persecution for failing to pay the tax.

In 2009, over 150 Hindu and Sikh households In NFWP and shut by tribal areas had been compelled to go away their homes and take shelter in Pakistan’s Punjab amidst targeted assaults by Taliban terrorists. “So far, over 150 Sikh and Hindu families have arrived at Gurdwara Panja Sahib in Hasan Abdal and Rawalpindi from places like Buner, Swat, and Aurakzai Agency,” Evacuee Trust Property Board Chairman Asif Hashmi had acknowledged once more then. 

It was moreover reported that 11 homes of the Pakistani Sikhs Aurakzai tribal firm had been destroyed by Talibani terrorists on failing to pay the Jaziya. The Taliban had imposed a deadline of April 29, 2009, to pay the tax imposed on ‘Kafirs’. Taliban had directed Sikhs to pay Rs 50 million per yr as ‘protection money’.

Although the Congress-led Indian authorities had verbally demarched Pakistan its issues regarding the discriminatory treatment meted out to non-Muslims in Pakistan, no totally different stringent movement was taken. Pakistan in its customary response dismissed India’s issues saying that Sikhs inside the Aurakzai firm are Pakistani residents so it should not be a precedence for India.

Raising the problem of the persecution of Pakistani Sikhs, Narendra Modi had posted the aforementioned tweets and on the equivalent day (May 4, 2009) he acknowledged all through a rally in Haryana that being a Sikh himself, the then Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh should have completed one factor to safeguard the pursuits of Sikhs in Pakistan. 

“He remained mum over the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai. But now, he should make his stand clear on the atrocities being inflicted on Sikhs in Pakistan, not only as a prime minister but also as a Sikh,” Modi acknowledged.

While Narendra Modi was referring to the assault of the Taliban in Pakistan, one different incident had occurred in Pakistan in the mean time. Former prime minister Imran Khan, when he was an opposition chief, was barred from entering into Karachi by the federal government amid ethnic violence inside the metropolis. He was off-loaded from a Karachi-bound flight on the airport in Lahore.