HYDERABAD: Qaumi Awami Tehreek president Ayaz Latif Palijo has demanded that all culprits in the murder cases of Jan Mohammad Mahar and housemaid Fatima Furro should be brought to justice immediately.

The vicious nexus between the government, pirs and sardars had turned Sindh into a slaughterhouse of women and children, said Mr Palijo while speaking to journalist at a hunger strike camp organised by his party’s women wing Sindhiani Tehreek outside the local press club on Wednesday in protest against the murder of Fatima and Mahar.

He urged the judiciary and government to play their role against excesses meted out to women and minorities. He said influential persons were involved in the two murder cases.

Mr Palijo said a true federation was solution to all problems confronting the country. He said that women, peasants, minorities and labourers were not on the agenda of the rulers.

He stated that the successive governments had failed to ensure protection to women. He maintained that waderas and ignorant men had been ruling Sindh unendingly. He said Pakistan needed a new social, economic and constitutional charter.

He said that digital census had wronged Sindh and through that wrong headcount, a plan was afoot to usurp resources and political representation.

Published in Dawn, August 24th, 2023