KARACHI, April 14: The All Pakistan Minorities Alliance (APMA), Sindh chapter, has urged the authorities to institute a high-level inquiry into the atrocities being committed against the administrator of the Brenton Carey Hostel and a priest’s wife, Ghazala Shafique, who had allegedly been stripped of her clothes also. Speaking at a press conference here on Thursday, a former member of the Sindh Assembly and chief of the Sindh APMA, Saleem Khursheed Khokhar, criticized the police raid on the house of Ghazala Shafique and implicating her and 15 girl inmates in a case.

By not registering a case against the offenders who had committed atrocities against Ghazala and, instead, registering a case against her and 15 poor inmates, the police had proved that all these injustices were being resorted to in connivance with the culprits.

He said that the self-appointed Bishop, Sadiq Daniel, in connivance with the former bureaucrat, Shazer Shamoon, who had been sacked for his involvement in the infamous dancer Babli rape case in Tharparkar, had converted the Diocese of Karachi into a police state.

He repeated the claim that the police had entered the hostel by breaking its doors which was a proof of the illegal action. “This time, Sadiq Daniel has disgraced the wife of a priest, and if such atrocities are not resisted, similar incidents might happen and more sisters and daughters of religious figures would have to face the atrocities,” he maintained.

Citing the case of Mukhtaran Bibi where President Musharraf and several human rights organizations and courts had taken due actions, he said that same spirit should also be demonstrated in the case of Ghazala Shafique.

Everybody’s honour would be at risk if stern action was not taken against the culprits, he said, adding that the offenders should not be spared because of their influence.