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After the independence of Pakistan in 1947, over 4.7 million Hindus and Sikhs from West ... the Hindu population in Pakistan comprised roughly 3.98 million persons or ...
During and after Pakistan's independence in 1947, about 5 million Hindus and Sikhs emigrated to India, with Punjab alone accounting for migration of 3.9 million people. [2] According to the 1951 census conducted by the Government of Pakistan, Pakistan had 1.6% Hindu population. [3]
After Partition of India in 1947, two-thirds of the Muslims resided in Pakistan (both east and West Pakistan) but a third resided in India. [1] According to 1951 census, Dominion of Pakistan (both East and West Pakistan) had a population of 75 million population, in which West Pakistan had a population of 33.7 million and East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) had a population of 42 million.
Prior to the partition of India in 1947, a third of Lahore district's population was Hindu and Sikh. Hindus and Sikhs used to reside in 'distinct enclaves'. The city's Hindu and Sikh population left en masse during the partition and shifted to East Punjab and Delhi in India. In the process, Lahore lost its entire Hindu and Sikh population.
The official religion of Pakistan is Islam, [7] as enshrined by Article 2 of the Constitution, and is practised by an overwhelming majority of 96.35% of the country's population. [ 1 ] [ 8 ] The remaining 3.65% practice Hinduism , Christianity , Ahmadiyya (considered a non-Muslim group as per Pakistani constitution [ 9 ] ), Sikhism ...
The population in the Tharparkar district in the Sindh province of West Pakistan was 80% Hindu and 20% Muslim at the time of independence in 1947. During the Indo-Pakistani Wars of 1965 and 1971 , an estimated 1,500 Hindu families fled to India, which led to a massive demographic shift in the district.
During the period between 1947 and 1950, 8.6 million Muslims had moved to specially Pakistan's West Punjab region and about 6.7 million Hindus and Sikhs had gone the other way to India's East Punjab region and thus changing the demography of Pakistan drastically and resulting in overwhelming Muslim majority to this region.
Events from the year 1947 in Pakistan ... 1818 of the Kathiawar Peninsula despite an overall Hindu majority of the population all acceded to the ...