“We are Pakistani Hindus.”

Brut India

When these two cousins tried to showcase how Hindus in Pakistan live, they drew backlash. They told Brut what they were thinking while putting out that content.

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00:00we are pakistani hindus of course people think we do not exist in pakistan

00:04we are pakistani hindus of course people think we are not happy here

00:07i had a comment that my ancestors would be ashamed of me

00:11my ancestors are completely from pakistan they won't be

00:26we are pakistani hindus and of course we greet people with

00:29assalamu alaikum and they greet us back with namaste

00:40people took it off like we are trying to portray

00:52that was not our point our point was to highlight

00:56we are pakistani hindus and we celebrate all our festivals here

01:02happy holi how we celebrate how we live how we fulfill our customs and traditions so that

01:09picture need to be there in front of people and we didn't deny but we portrait the other

01:14positive side of the picture

01:28society only tease or give tough time to the people they are able to be it from any religion

01:35the one who is under the economic pressures always undergoes all the vulnerabilities out there

01:44we had no idea that wearing certain costumes like you are portraying the hindu culture or muslim

01:59culture we had the question where's the bindi and where's this and that so we thought we were in the

02:04most decent respectable manners and i had no idea that color green is associated for certain religion

02:10in the mind of people i was so shocked we are pakistani hindus and of course people think our

02:16mother wears bangles bindis and saree all day at home people were judging i'm not an enough hindu

02:22or enough sanatan dharmi just because i read scriptures in urdu just because i practice those

02:27beliefs in pakistan so i was like dude you guys don't know my and my bond with my god like ours

02:34and our bond with god so how can you just characterize and generalize

02:53when we said yes we do exist we were not targeting any indian media or anything in india we were

03:01targeting the people in pakistan only because uh deepna has been around a lot of hindu people as

03:07compared to me because she was brought up in a society that had a lot of hindus as compared to me

03:12so i'm talking about myself here that when i was in school i was the only girl who was not a muslim

03:17when i was in when i was in college i was the only girl who was not a muslim so what i got from my

03:24that oh you're not a muslim

03:39my one point was like of course our mother don't wear bindi sindoor every time every time because

03:45culture

03:57being a vegetarian in pakistan is more difficult than being a minority

04:01okay we want pasta please bring chicken on separate we want pizza please we do not want

04:07chicken on that so this is how we are left with very rare food options whenever i used to tell

04:12anybody i am not a muslim so their first question was you are from india you are from india and you

04:18support indian cricket that we chose to add in a deal okay no we do not support indian cricket i

04:24am from pakistan i am a pakistani this is the culture here that if you are not a muslim then

04:30you're not patriotic in pakistan this is some misconception that i always cleared

04:34if there's a lot of heat this needs to end now and this was the purpose of our video

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