Bilawal Bhutto takes strong exception to incidents of attacks on minorities

RADIO PAKISTAN

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari says attacks on temples‚ graveyards‚ properties and lives of the minorities are an attack on the Jinnah's vision of Pakistan and pose an existential threat to the country. Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has taken strong exception to the latest incidents of attacks on the minorities and urged provincial governments and the law enforcement agencies to do their best to protect the fundamental rights of the minorities of the country. The Chairman PPP said yesterday there was a report of demolition of a Hindu temple in Karachi and today we woke up to the news of desecration of graves of innocent Pakistanis in Lahore. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said the attacks on temples‚ graveyards‚ properties and lives of the minorities are an attack on the Jinnah's vision of Pakistan and pose an existential threat to the country‚ something Shaheed Benazir Bhutto gave her life fighting against. The Chairman PPP appealed all political parties‚ religious bodies‚ civil society organizations and all institutions of Pakistan to rise up to defend the Jinnah's Pakistan as the continuing attacks on the minorities‚ if un-checked will threaten the very existence of Pakistan. He said our forefathers did not give their lives for an intolerant‚ extremist‚ sectarian and authoritarian Pakistan. I appeal you to rise up to defend Jinnah's Pakistan and my party will stand by you‚ shoulder to shoulder.