KHAIRPUR, July 6: Sufi singer Faqir Azizullah Maitlo has said that his own life and those of members ofhis family are in danger because people who kidnapped two women members of his family are issuing threats of 'dire consequences'.

Mr Maitlo told journalists here on Tuesday that his family had migrated from their native village, Majnoon Faqir Maitlo, after the kidnapping of the two women in May. However, he added, that the women had returned to their village two days back.

He deplored that none of the two persons of kidnapping the women had been arrested despite the fact that they had been named in an FIR. He said that one of the accused was handed over to the police at the time of the incident.

Appealing the authorities to provide protection to him, the vocalist said that being devoted to the way of the saints, neither he nor his family had anything to do with the ongoing feud between the Kandhra and Maitlo communities.

The dispute was sparked by a marriage between a girl from one community and a boy from the other. Mr Maitlo is one of the most popular singers of upper Sindh and particularly liked for his vast memory. He remembers so many songs of Sufi poets like Shah Latif, Sachal Sarmast and Nanak Yousuf that during three-day Urs celebrations at different shrines, he seldom repeats a song.