THIS is apropos the article ‘Lethal blackmailing arsenal’ (Jan 10). The sectarian fault lines in Pakistan are plenty and gruesome. There can be no justified way to turn a blind eye even if one person of Hazara community or any other community, or faith for that matter, is targeted on the basis of faith or race.

I, however, tend to differ with the logic in the said article of counting 1,500 members of the Hazara community murdered in the last 21 years and then magnifying the gruesome bloodletting by seeing it in the context of 220 million people of this country and arriving at a staggering figure of half-a-million people by applying the principle of proportion.

The last thing anyone would like to do is to create the impression that sectarianism came from only one side of the social divide.

Haroon Rashid Siddiqi

Karachi

Published in Dawn, February 9th, 2021