First of all, it is hardly surprising that a few families belonging to religious minorities ALONG with “thousands” of Muslims not subscribing to the extremists’ version of Islam have left the troubled tribal areas. Most of these have found refuge in other areas of the country; a few deemed fit to look for greener pastures abroad. Not everyone has that option. Not least the hundreds of Christians, persecuted with impunity on various pretexts, in different parts of india, as documented in detail from page 48-51 of the PEW report.
Also, last I checked this thread was about the blatant demolition of the historic Babri mosque in india. Frankly, I couldn’t care less about other “muslim countries” although it is interesting nonetheless that millions of Hindus and indians keep flocking to many of these in the Persian Gulf/ME. How ironic that even in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, there are more than a million indians living. Surely, if conditions were so bad, these Indians would not have felt the urge to leave their little slice of heaven for such religiously oppressive and socially hostile countries!
Finally, PEW, lest you don’t know, is a highly respected non-partisan think tank. Neither its methodologies are suspect nor is it smitten with vendettas. Pakistan is no U.S. either but india has a lot to worry about its rampant-and flagrant- social hostility and religious discrimination perpetrated by groups and individuals, of whom there is no death of. The destruction of Babri mosque, if nothing else, should have served as a belated wakeup call for india. Alas, some things never change.