· · SOUTH ASIA MONITOR A Perspective on, from and of interest to the region Powered by SPS Society for Policy Studies Attack on Sikh shrine exposes Pakistan’s disdain for minorities The 'deep state' and the Imran Khan government should care about the pitiable condition of minorities in their own country instead of worrying about Muslim and Sikh minorities in India, writes Jai Kumar Verma for South Asia Monitor By Jai Kumar Verma JAN 8, 2020 · · · On January 3, a mob of more than 400 extremists attacked Nankana Sahib Gurdwara, a Sikh shrine barely 62 kms from Lahore, in Pakistan’s Punjab province. The crowd was reportedly led by Mohammed Imran Attari, the brother of Mohammed Hassan who had kidnapped and forcibly converted a Sikh girl named Jagjit Kaur, daughter of the gurudwara’s priest. The demonstrators shouted anti-Sikh and anti-Hindu slogans. The protestors were threatening to kill a