I confronted discrimination, my profession was destroyed: former Pakistan cricketer Danish Kaneria

Former Pakistan cricketer Danish Kaneria in Washington on March 12, 2025
| Photograph Credit score: ANI

Former Pakistani cricketer Danish Kaneria has alleged that he confronted large discrimination in Pakistan and his profession was destroyed.

Kaneria, who’s a Hindu by religion, stated he didn’t get equal values and respect in Pakistan. He had participated within the Congressional Briefing on ‘Plight of minorities in Pakistan’ on Wednesday (March 12, 2025).

Talking to ANI, on the sidelines of the occasion, Kaneria stated, “At this time, all of us gathered right here and expressed how all of us confronted discrimination and raised our voices. I additionally confronted discrimination in Pakistan and my profession was destroyed. I didn’t get equal values, respect in Pakistan…

“All of the individuals who got here right here spoke towards discrimination, on how Pakistan handled them. So, the principle purpose was to unfold consciousness amongst everybody, particularly US, on how individuals endure and the issues that exist in Pakistan and take motion towards it.”

Kaneria had performed 61 Exams for Pakistan and is just the second Hindu to function within the Pakistani cricket workforce after Anil Dalpat.

Congressman calls for motion

Indian-American U.S. Congressman Shri Thanedar additionally attended the occasion and urged the U.S. to sentence ‘human rights violations’ in Pakistan towards Hindu minorities and demand fast actions towards Pakistan to make sure that these atrocities cease.

Talking to ANI, Thanedar stated that he’s attending the convention to help the Hindus amid their battle towards atrocities in Pakistan. He urged the U.S. State Division to impose sanctions towards Pakistan till these atrocities cease.

In the meantime, former journalist for the Wall Road Journal, Asra Nomani, recalled how her colleague and pal, Daniel Pearl, who she stated was “kidnapped, beheaded and lower into items” in 2002. She stated that minority individuals in Pakistan will not be allowed the rights and freedoms of equal residents.

“I noticed on the streets of Karachi, Pakistan, the tragic influence of the sectarianism that’s laying declare to too many minorities. My pal and colleague, Daniel Pearl, was the journalist who was kidnapped after which beheaded and lower into items in 2002,” Nomani stated

“Within the many years since and till in the present day, now we have a disaster through which too many minority individuals within the nation of Pakistan will not be allowed the rights and freedoms of being equal residents. And so I stood right here in the present day to testify to my witness and to my very own journalism seeing this injustice that’s taking place and that must be corrected,” she added.