SINDH was still feeling the heat of the arson attack targeting a dharamshala in Larkana and of the ransacking of a temple in Hyderabad, when some unidentified people set fire to a temple in Madeji. … Though Sindh [is not] Waziristan, the tree of tolerance and religious harmony [seems to be] drying up. Perhaps Sindh is passing through the worst period of fundamentalism. … Some groups are bent upon ending religious harmony. …

It is strange that these incidents took place in broad daylight, but they remain [unsolved] and the iron hand of the law fails to catch [the culprits]. Due to lack of arrest of the culprits … such incidents are increasing. Without backing and patronage the occurrence of such incidents is impossible. This is not the nature of Sindh. …

Definitely, there are conspirators [behind] such acts. … Whenever such an act takes place, the government just forms a committee and escapes from the responsibility. …

There is need for effective measures … to stop attacks on religious minorities. … The attackers of the Madeji temple should be brought to … justice. — (May 9)

Selected and translated by Sohail Sangi.

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