Bhuro Bheel case: Strike observed against petition for new FIR

A rally was also held where religious scholars said that the issue was deliberately being misinterpreted.

KARACHI: A complete shutter-down strike was observed in the Pangrio town in Badin on Monday on the joint call of all religious parties against the possible order for the registration of a fresh FIR in the case of late Bhuro Bheel’s corpse desecration. 

The strike call was given in reaction to the petition filed by Khabarh Bheel, the brother of Bhuro, in the Sindh High Court, Hyderabad, appealing for a new FIR into the matter. The court has asked the Badin SSP and the Pangrio SHO to provide comments on the issue.

A rally was also held where religious scholars, Pir Ayub Jan Sarhandi and Maulana Hafiz Samoon, said that the issue was deliberately being misinterpreted. They said that Hindus and Muslims had been living side by side for centuries with religious harmony. “The nationalist parties are creating communal tensions in the town,” they believed.

The speakers warned that the protest would be extended if any innocent person was named in the new FIR.

Meanwhile, Tando Bago former taluka nazim and Pakistan Muslim League-Functional leader Pir Hamid Shah Rashidi, whose name is among others in the petition, addressed a press conference at the Pangrio press club. He said that the matter was being politicised by unscrupulous elements, who, according to him, were trying to sabotage peace in Pangrio.