Doubtlessly, girls suffer from several socio-economic problems in Sindh. They suffer from hunger, poverty, illiteracy and above all from the feudal mindset. In this painful scenario, like her great father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, former Prime Minister, Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto did a lot to revolutionise the future and fortune of Sindhi women. Had the incumbent rulers continued those revolutionary education and empowerment programmes, the situation within these four years would have been incredibly different for girls in Sindh.
Indeed, Sindhi girls are born to suffer. Here I have to mention the fate of two ill-fated daughters. One ailing daughter from Karachi, namely Kiran Soomro, a picture of innocence, a school going girl, is wrestling with cardiac disease and as per advice of doctors her treatment is only possible either from the US or the UK. The rulers are requested to come to the rescue of this girl.
Another ill-fated daughter is Fazila Sarki, from Kashmor, a daughter of poor parents, she was kidnapped four years back and is still in the cruel clutches of callous and criminal people. Her poor parents have knocked at every door for the retrieval of her innocent daughter but have not retrieved her yet.
Now the Anti-violence Cell Squad from Karachi is reported to have appeared in the area for an action/raid against the notorious criminals. However, an immediate and stringent action is needed; otherwise, it will be too late and the kidnapers will vanish in the ‘No-Go areas” in the troubled Balochistan.
It is, indeed, a painful and heart-wrenching reality that our thick-skinned provincial rulers have not shown an iota of interest in such humanitarian cases. I appeal to the President of Pakistan, who is himself a father of two daughters, to order an immediate treatment of cardiac patient Kiran Soomro and the retrieval of the kidnapped daughter Fazila Sarki.
HASHIM ABRO
Islsmabad
