[Reader-list] The Murder of Hindus in Shikarpur: Let the Insanity not be prevailed!

[Zulfiqar Shah]

The brutal carnage caused the murder of Dr. Satya Pal, Dr. Ajeet, Naresh and Ashok in Chak village near Shikarpur, where around 200 Hindu households inhabit since decades is not a simple as well as an accidental issue. 
 
Although the apparent reasons are connecting this criminal act with another issue that happened almost one week ago in Shikarpur in which some Hindu boys were booked and taken into  custody; the carnage seems to be targeting those who were attempting to resolve the issue through traditional community conflict resolution mechanisms. 
 
The increasing fundamentalism and its patronization in Shikarpur after Great Foods of 2010 is the major factor behind the incident, where existence of religious militants in the area that used to be visible more than once in the form of setting the NATO tankers on fire as well as the open sale of weaponry by the weapon rackets in Shikarpur and other districts of north Sindh. 
 
This incident is definitely potent, if not a conspiracy, to air communal violence in Sindh and has raised a sense of insecurity in the already harassed and insecure Hindu community of the province, which is being pushed to migrate to India in as much as worst manners as during portion of Indian Subcontinent.       
 
We condemn this criminal act, term it an conscious attempt to dismantle harmonious interfaith environment of Sindh and demand the government to take a set of steps to secure Hindu as well as other minority communities of Sindh. 
 
This is the time when the political parties and broader civil society stand together to protect our Hindus, Christians and other minority communities. 
 
Let the Insanity not be prevailed!
 
Regards,
 
Zulfiqar Shah
Convener, Movement for Peace & Tolerance 
www.movementforpeace.net 
Cell: +92 333 464 888 1
Hyderabad