KARACHI, Sept 24: Speakers at a meeting on Sunday condemned the indifferent attitude of the government towards victimisation of minorities, and demanded that all those involved in the Rimpa Plaza carnage be arrested immediately and punished according to law.
The meeting was organised to observe the fourth anniversary of the carnage in which seven minority community workers of an NGO, Idara Amn-o-Insaf, had been killed in broad daylight.
The meeting was held at the First UP Church in Essa Nagri. It was organised jointly by Presbyterian Church of Pakistan Mission and the Action for Social Services. Church moderator Bughar Philips, Liaquat M. Surowa, Dr David F. Bhatti, Amanat Masih, Sharif Soz and others spoke.
They criticised the lethargic attitude of the investigation agencies, which had miserably failed to arrest the culprits who had carried out the early morning attack in one of the busiest commercial localities in the heart of the city, and left without facing any resistance from anybody.
They said that owing to the killers’ being at large, the minority community members felt insecure and believed that the state’s law-enforcement agencies did not properly investigate the gory incidents like the Rimpa Plaza killings.
They demanded that the culprits and those working behind the scene be exposed, brought to book, tried and punished according to the law.
They also announced their plan to hold a protest demonstration outside the Karachi Press Club for the arrest of the killers.
