2003 census poses question over remaining Jews in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani government census on civil servants raised curiosity on Thursday about one of the Islamic Republic’s smallest and most low-profile religious minorities – the Jews.
The 2003 census, released on a government website last week, showed none of the 234,933 government employees declared themselves to be Jews, although 10 had done so in the last census three years ago.
However, for several people the real news was that there were still any Jews living in Pakistan, given Pakistan’s longstanding antipathy towards Israel and Zionism. Even a former minister for religious minorities was taken aback that there were Jews in the country.
“I never thought there were Jews in Pakistan. I have never seen them or met them, even when I was a minister,” remarked Colonel SK Tressler, who served in President Pervez Musharraf’s first cabinet in 1999. “I was also surprised to see the report that there were Jews in the government service, also.” Officials who conducted the census could not say whether the Jews had retired, converted, migrated, died, or simply chose to mark themselves in the ‘other religions’ category. reuters
one of my consultants is an english jew, and he is currently in karachi on some rheumatology conference!....he asked me whether he should go...and i advised him strongly to go, and to experience the culture etc.
one of my consultants is an english jew, and he is currently in karachi on some rheumatology conference!....he asked me whether he should go...and i advised him strongly to go, and to experience the culture etc.
Descendent of Jews can also be found in Kashmir, Western India (Maharashtra) and North Eastern states. They belong to the lost tribes of Israel. *
* Kashmiri language has many Hebrew words. and my favrourite topic..Jesus was a Jew..he lived and died in India and is buried in Srinagar.
Many of these people are migrating back to Israel because it permits Jews from anywhere in the world to come and settle in Israel. Few months back about 800 Jews from Northeast part of India left for Israel. Search BBC for it.