Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Wednesday said that it was the state’s responsibility to provide basic rights to the underprivileged.
Addressing the representatives of minority groups at a minorities’ convention, Imran presented his party’s agenda to uplift various religious groups across Pakistan.
“Minorities were given rights in Madina’s welfare state,” said Imran. “But the weak don’t get their due rights in Pakistan.”
The PTI chief further said that during the “enlightened Muslim rule” in the sub-continent, minorities were free to follow their religious beliefs.
“The more developed a society, the more protected are the weak from the powerful,” Imran said. “I have to say it with regret that I receive a lot of complaints from the Hindu community in Sindh that women belonging to the minority are forcefully married to Muslims.”
Furthermore, Imran lamented that the law in Pakistan was different for the weak and powerful. Citing the Raymond Davis case, the PTI chief said: “Had the same incident happened in US, nobody would have cared about diplomatic immunity. The person who was responsible for the accident would have been punished.” The PTI chief continued: “Only those societies where the supremacy of law prevails are considered civilised. “The constitution guarantees that the state will provide education and health facilities to the people but what is actually available for the common man? Facilities are only available for a small segment of the society,” he observed.
Published in Daily Times, July 12th 2018.
