Karachi: Sindh’s minister for minorities, Giyanchand Essrani, has asked dacoits in the province’s riverine belt not to hurt the Hindus who have lived there quietly for hundreds of years.
Monday in the provincial assembly, the minister made his request in response to a point of order. In response to the point of order, a representative from the MQM-P, Mangla Sharma, said that heavily armed bandits from the riverine areas attacked a temple in Sindh with rocket launchers.
Moreover, Sharma said that the incident had made the people in the area very scared. Essrani told the house that dacoits had also said they were going to attack Hindu churches in the province.
He said that the robbers were from this country and should not do anything that would make Pakistan look bad. Essrani worried that if anything bad happened to the Hindus who lived in Pakistan, Pakistan get a bad name all over the world.
While, The minister said that Pakistan’s Muslim majority kept good relationships with the country’s religious communities. They did their best to protect their members.
“Our lives and deaths are both connected to Pakistan,” he said. He said that the Hindus in Pakistan hadn’t done anything wrong, so their places of worship shouldn’t be hurt.
