Protests have intensified in Sindh following the fatal shooting of Kailash Kolhi, a Hindu tenant farmer, by a local feudal lord. While the accused remains at large, rights groups like the Minority Rights Organization are calling for terrorism charges and a crackdown on the systematic persecution of poor minority workers in rural Pakistan.
The demand for Sindhudesh is not new. It dates back to the late 1960s when GM Syed, an early supporter of Pakistan’s formation, started calling for an independent Sindh.
In the last decade, nothing has changed in the failed state of Pakistan, their economy remains in shambles, their army continues to dominate and persecute Pashtuns and Baloch. Besides inflation, hatred for Hindus and IMF loans are the only two things that never go down in Pakistan.
The Baloch and Pashtun minorities communities in Pakistan have long been demanding freedom from Pakistan and the creation of their respective independent states.
Dr Syed Rehan Ali of the Sindh Institute of Child Health and Neonatology lamented, "The milk bank was one way of reducing our dismal neonatal mortality rate."
While, Pakistani mainstream media has often blackened out reports of persecution of minorities, according to Rights watchers and minority groups, Islamists didn’t even spare a dilapidated Ram temple in the Kacchi Colony of the Tando Adam area in Sindh.
Gadani's courageous reporting often targeted the abuses of power by feudal and politicians, who, under the protection of the Pakistan army, have perpetuated widespread suffering in Sindh.