(EDITORIAL) The RSS — men who planned the massacre of Muslims in India; who killed, raped and abducted; who maimed helpless women and children; whose aim was and still is to destroy Pakistan — these men still seem to have friends in Pakistan. We request the highest in the State to study closely the editorial which the Sind Observer wrote yesterday. It was a strong and laboriously argued plea that the prosecution against the accused in what is known as the Shikarpuri Colony bomb explosion case should be dropped. The Police are corrupt and given to trumping up charges against innocent people whose prosecution involves the Government in unnecessary expenditure; there have been many instances of this; therefore, why pursue this case either? So runs the argument.

… These writers in the Sind Observer — we do not know who they are — seem determined that the Sangh men now awaiting trial for grave offences against the State should escape justice. They were happy when one by one the principal accused found themselves released on bail, thus gaining freedom of movement to cross over into Indian territory… .

Published in Dawn, April 2nd, 2023

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