Jafaria Alliance Pakistan (JAP) has brought up the missing people and killings in Gilgit-Baltistan, Quetta and Karachi.
At a press conference on Friday, JAP leaders warned the government to address the issue and provide security to the people before it led to civil war. They said that Larkana and Multan were the only two cities left where ethnic violence hadn’t taken place.
Allama Abbas Kumaili said that around 150 people from G-B were still missing and it was feared that they had been killed or were being tortured. He linked the murders of Bisharat Hussain Zaidi in Karachi Central Jail and Qalandar Bux Jakhrani in Sukkur Jail to sectarian violence and demanded that the government probe the murders. The JAP has called an All Parties Conference on April 20.
On the other hand, the Ahle Sunnat wal Jamaat (ASWJ) announced its support for the Sunni people of GB and alleged that militants from another sect were behind the killings of innocent people. Hundreds of ASWJ supporters held a protest rally outside the Karachi Press Club on Friday and chanted inflammatory and derogatory slogans against one sect.
Allama Rab Nawaz Hanafi said that the people who were targeted had spoken against the exclusion of the names of certain religious figures from textbooks. “Our party is against such steps and our voices are suppressed. We won’t keep quiet for a long time on such brutalities,” he warned.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 7th, 2012.
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