Lahore – Our Intolerant Correspondent: Maulana Fazal Ahmed, head of the Lashkar-e-Waseb Pakistan (LWP), an organisation banned by the federal government in 1997 as a terrorist organisation, said at a press conference on Saturday that he was deeply saddened by the falling secular values in India.
“India has become a secular republic in name only, with the minorities fearing for their very lives,” said Ahmed, who has 48 cases registered against himself for the murders of minority sect Muslims.
“What sort of a disgusting place India has become where people are to be persecuted for their very religion,” asked Fayaz Chaudhry, second-in-command at the LWP, an organisation whose members have a combined total of 467 murder cases registered against them, not including terror, arson and rioting.
“It pains me to see Muslims suffering at the hands of zealots, wherever they are,” Chaudhry said, taking out and reading a list of the names of three of the latest Muslim victims of Hindu fundamentalists in the Uttar Pradesh town of Rampur. “Haider Hassan Rizvi, Shahvar Ali Jafri and Hassan Turab Jafri.”
“Wait,” said Maulana Fazal Ahmed, stopping his deputy. “Let me see that list again.”
