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The Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPPP) has submitted an adjournment motion seeking a debate on the issue of alleged oppression of Hindu community by the relatives of Sindh Chief Minister Arbab Ghulam Rahim in Khait Lari, Tharparker.
It was a serious mater and needed to be discussed in the National Assembly because it could cause serious problems for Pakistan’s image internationally, states the motion signed by eight PPPP MNAs.
Pakistan did not have good record of human rights and this case cause a serious damage to the already distorted image of Pakistan, said Sherry Rehman. “It is very unfortunate that the Sindh chief minister’s relatives are committing crimes against the minority community with impunity at a time when President General Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz were trying to promote a soft image of Pakistan. We want to discuss this matter in house to expose the government’s double standards,” she added.
The motion further states that according to reports published in the press, a fact finding mission of the Pakistan Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) had claimed that a sizable Hindu community was being oppressed in Khait Lari, home town of Sindh chief minister.
According to the HRCP fact-finding mission led by Jam Saqi, human rights activist and social worker, a Hindu family complained of victimisation by Rahim’s close relatives.
Hindu woman Mai Dhanno,60, a widow and a mother of four, submitted before the HRCP team that her son had been kidnapped by the Sindh CM’s relatives who she alleged had tried to rape the wife of her kidnapped son.
After he returned to Lahore, Jam Saqi and his wife were arrested allegedly on the orders of Rahim for filing a report exposing the reign of terror unleashed by his relatives in the interior of Sindh.
Sherry Rehman, Raja Pervez Ashraf,
Nawab Yousaf Ahmed Talpur, Syed Naveed Qamar, Ramesh Lal, Nayyar Bukhari,
Manzoor Wasan, and Khurshid Ahmed Shah had signed the adjournment motion.
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