Shia Ulema Council: Ulema to protest if govt doesn’t curb killings

General secretary demands offensive graffiti be removed from walls.


Express June 21, 2011

KARACHI:


The Shia Ulema Council of Sindh has warned of nationwide protests if the government does not take any steps against target killings. They also demanded that offensive and inflammatory graffiti against the sect be removed from the walls of Karachi and the rest of the province.


At a news conference at the press club on Tuesday, the council’s Sindh general secretary, Syed Nazir Abbas Taqvi, said that the government should conduct a clean-up operation against target killers in Orangi Town and Qasba Colony as well.

“We demand that a national conference be called for the restoration of peace in Karachi and the government should reveal the parties that the arrested target killers belong to,” said Taqvi.

He said that 15 doctors from the Ahle Tasheeh community have been targeted, while over 58 men from Millat-e-Jafria have also been killed.

In Orangi Town, five to six Ahle Tasheeh people are killed every month but the government is not taking any serious steps against the killings, despite continuous demands, he fumed.

In response to a question, Taqvi said that certain religious groups are trying to create terror in the city and the same religious party is also torturing the community in rural Sindh.

The council’s vice president, Maulana Jafar Subhani, and Maulana Syed Hassan Raza Rizvi attended the press conference.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 22nd, 2011.

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