Pakistan - Sabeen’s murder meant to suppress voices of rights

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Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Human Rights Cell Central Coordinator Dr Nafisa Shah had strongly condemned the cowardly and barbaric attack on T2F Director Sabeen Mehmud.

It is a heart wrenching tragedy that has shaken up all those, who are striving for a plural, tolerant and progressive Pakistan, free from obscurantism and bigotry, she added.

The PPP HR Central Coordinator Dr Nafisa Shah while severely condemning the savagism that was portrayed by Sabeen’s brutal assassination said it was not just an attack on Sabeen, it was an attack on all those, who spoke up and denounced violations of rights of the people.

Having been grossly aggrieved, Dr Shah said the assassination was meant to suppress voice of all those, who spoke of rights and freedoms of smaller provinces and those, who advocated for a strong federation free from extremism, rights of women and minorities.

Paying tribute to Sabeen, she said she was a visionary and a progressive personality whose modest T2F cafe became a place where social, cultural and political debate was encouraged.

Aiming at quick action from the authorities concerned at the national level, Dr Shah said it was incumbent on the government and the state both to uncover the dark forces that were out to destroy and deface the pluralism of this country by targeting its best faces and of them Sabeen was one.

The HR Central Coordinator Dr Nafisa Shah demanded of protection and promotion of spaces like Peace Niche and T2F, which were the best antidote to extremism.