Shireen Mazari wants UN to probe extrajudicial killings of 11 Pakistani Hindus in Jodhpur.

ISLAMABAD -- Federal Human Rights Minister Shireen Mazari has urged the United Nations to investigate the extrajudicial killings of 11 Pakistani Hindus.

'UN investigators should be allowed to enter India,' said Mazari in a letter written to the human rights chief of the UN. She also appealed to the UN to help ensure that the dead bodies of the murdered people should be returned to their families.

'India should be told to respect human rights,' Mazari asked the UN in the letter.

Earlier this year, at least 11 members of a Pakistani Hindu migrant family were found dead under mysterious circumstances at a farm in India's Jodhpur district in Rajasthan.

According to local authorities, a member of the family was found alive outside the hut he lived in Lodta village, more than 100 kilometres away from Jodhpur city.

"The surviving family member claimed to have no idea about the incident, which believed to have happened in the night," the superintendent of police...

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