An application against non-compliance of the Supreme Court’s ruling about protection of the minorities’ rights by the federal and provincial government was filed in the apex court’s Karachi registry.
NGO Justice Helpline president Nadeem Sheikh filed an application requesting the court to proceed against the federal and provincial authorities for failing to protect the minorities. He pleaded to the court direct the government to make payment of compensation to victim families of the Yohana Abad incident.
In application, Nadeem submitted that the apex court had issued a landmark judgment regarding minorities’ rights, directing the government to form a special task force for the protection of worship places of minorities.
Had the government implemented the court’s judgment, the Yohana Abad incident could have been avoided, said the applicant, requesting the court take action against the authorities for failing to implement the judgment.
IT IS NEED OF THE HOUR: SHARMILA
Special Assistant to Sindh Chief Minister Sharmila Faruqui has called for implementation of the verdicts of apex court to form national council of minorities rights and special task force to protect minorities worship places and declared it as need of the hour.
In a statement issued on Tuesday, Sharmila Faruqui said that the federal government should devise a proper policies and strategy to ensure protection to minority’s rights.
She said: “Their souls and properties are to be protected on priority basis. We strongly condemn the Lahore church blast as we did in past after every incident, but this is not enough. Now, we need actions and implementations, not words. We should learn from our mistakes,” she added.
Sharmila urged the federal government to follow the rulings of SC made a year back in its detailed decision in a suo-motu case pertaining to the suicide bomb attack on a Church in Peshawar.
She also said that such incidents were causing huge defamation of Pakistan worldwide. “Our all efforts are in vain to export softer image of Pakistan internationally.” She urged that racial, social and religious harmony and tolerance was highly needed to be taught on seminaries, schools and college levels. No country or mind would survive in isolation in this global village, she opined.
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