The growing acts of intolerance against the minorities in Pakistan should be cause for great concern for everybody in the country.
We keep harping on about why this country was created but it is undeniable that it was envisaged as a place where people of every creed and religion would have the freedom to practice their religion.
Many Hindus, Christian and minority Muslim sects call this place home where there fellows treat them like second-class citizens. There can be no tolerance of such heinous crimes and it falls on the government to activate the law apparatus to nab the criminals and award them exemplary punishments. Intolerance has no place in a civilised democratic society and each citizen is their fellow citizen’s keeper.
Everyone has a duty to their fellow citizens to raise a voice when they are persecuted. Otherwise, one will have no excuse when the bigots come for oneself. And if they are allowed to perpetuate their hatred, it is inevitable that one day they will.
NAJAM NIZAM
Hyderabad
