Defence Minister Syed Navid Qamar has said the government will take all measures to address the concerns of the Hindu community who are Pakistani citizens and enjoy equal rights.
“President Asif Ali Zardari has ordered to solve all their problems and to ensure that nothing like the reported exodus of the community ever takes place,” the minister said while talking to the media at the residence of journalist Azam Bhatti in Tando Muhammad Khan on Sunday.
Qamar said the minorities were not discriminated in any way in the country. “We are doing our best to give maximum protection to them,” he told recalling that the rights of the minorities were enshrined by Quaid-e-Azam who declared that all citizens of the country were equal.
Talking about the issues in Balochistan, the minister said the government and the PPP were in contact with the Baloch leaders to defuse the situation.
When asked about the holding of local government elections in Sindh, the minister said the government would hold them at an appropriate time adding that a petition had been filed in the Supreme Court to review an earlier judgment of the Sindh High Court on the same subject. The minister was accompanied by PPP’s district president Haji Ameen Lakho and other leaders of the party.