All those my dear ones ardently advocating the Theocratic Pakistan, don't for God's sake, dodge the reality.
The current bleak state of affairs into which the minorities have been squeezed to live is ostensibly indicative of the fiasco of the major articles of constitution esp. 20 to 36, posing a grave question mark on the writ of the government which has miserably failed to ensure security to the life and assets of minority classes on an equal and rightful footing.
Since the get-go of the year, there have been heaps of reported incidents, say 28, of minorities targeted and crucified sometimes on the ground of alleged blasphemy and in most cases for penny, while the law enforcement agencies seem impotent and numb, throwing them to wolves to be plundered, brutalized, persecuted and forced into exodus. The above figure dearly manifolds if such cases of barbarism in Sindh in general and in Jacobabad in particular are taken into account.
The abductions for ransom, forced conversions, forced marriages, and cold-blooded murders for unidentified motives are a few of many heinous atrocities committed against the non Muslims and the thing worth lamenting is the savage manslayers left at large are brazenly aided and abetted and then fully sheltered by the ‘Sardar Sain”, the de facto D.C and S.P of districts of most interior Sindh, on whose tune the district authorities dance.
Mr. Jinnah vehemently reiterated that holy places of non-Muslims would be given as equal a protection as they have in India. But contrarily and remorsefully neither do they feel the sense of security to live of their own accord nor are their places of worship protected. A number of instances where temples and churches, etc have abominably desecrated and set ablaze, are a slur upon the charter of fundamental rights of the constitution.
Religious-cum-racial intolerance coupled with extremism has been the last straw that breaks the camel’s back, thus compelling me to say today we are where Nazis stood 70 years back.