Pakistan Minorities
Pakistan: Women’s Action Forum demands protection of minority communities
Islamabad: Pakistan's Women’s Action Forum (WAF) has demanded the protection of the religious minority communities in the country.
According to a statement, the forum was deeply saddened at the increasing target killing incidents of members of Pakistan’s minorities, Dawn News reported.
“We offer our deepest condolences to the family and friends of shopkeeper Dayaal Singh, target-killed in Peshawar on March 31 and Kashif Masih, a Christian sanitation worker of PMC, target-killed on April 1 in Peshawar," the Women’s Action Forum said in a statement as quoted by Dawn News.
“Likewise, we offer our deepest condolences to the family and friends of the eminent Sindhi ophthalmologist, Dr Birbal Ginani Meghwarr, a prominent member of the Hindu-Scheduled Castes (SCs) community, target-killed in Karachi on March 30.
“We reiterate our strong condemnation and protest at the continued target killing of members of Pakistan’s vulnerable religious, sectarian, ethnic and caste minorities, particularly the Hindu, Scheduled Castes, Christian, Sikh, Kalasha, Shia, Ahmadi, Hazara communities; as well as the federal and provincial governments’ abject failure to prevent killings and their inability to provide effective protection to our beleaguered targeted communities,” WAF claimed.
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