Ajit Karn
Friday, during the 52nd session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, human rights advocates and scholars from Pakistan’s Sindh province brought up the “deteriorating human rights situation” in Sindh.
A panel of Sindhi activists, including reportedly Fatima Gul, Muzafar Talpur, Reva Tharwani, and Sindhu Rustamani, discussed human rights violations in Pakistan at a side event titled “Human Rights Violations in Pakistan” in an effort to bring attention to the oppression of the Sindhi people worldwide.
“Abductions of thousands of young girls who are then converted to Islam, enforced disappearances, and extra-judicial killings are the greatest human rights violations,” said Fatima Gul, a Sindhi-American human rights activist.
Using blasphemy as a weapon against the minority Hindu community, radical Islamists in Sindh province are persecuting it.
“All Sindhis, Muslims and Hindus alike, attend school and pursue Islamic studies. Therefore, prosecuting Sindhi people for blasphemy is absurd, as all religions are respected and we have coexisted with people of different faiths. “In Pakistan, human rights must be respected,” Gul was quoted as saying by the media.
In addition, the activist asserted that Sindhis have numerous problems with infrastructure, education, and the economy, and that Sindh has not been Pakistan’s top priority.
The director of the Sindhi Foundation, Muzafar Talpur, said in a statement to media, “If anyone speaks about human rights situation in sindh, he is disappeared. Alarmingly, we have also discovered numerous bullet-riddled bodies of Sindhi activists. Consequently, it is the most important issue right now.”
According to Talpur, the majority of young Sindhis now live in dread, and fear permeates all facets of society, making it the most pressing issue in Sindh today.
The upholding of human rights is necessary, he continued. “Everything concerning human rights is of the utmost importance. I believe that if human rights are respected in Pakistan, 95 percent of the problem will be resolved.”
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Talpur believes that Sindh’s minorities are defenseless and easy targets. “They have no representatives. The majority of the time, it is because they are economically vulnerable and simple to target,” he said.
