Postpone visit to India, for the time being
(Professor Alya Alvi, Rawalpindi)
What should we lament of and whom to complain in India. One
can only say the Pakistani citizens to stop thinking of going to India because
the Modi’s India is no more a secular; it is fast becoming a Hindu state where
no other religion or minority can survive any more. The trip to 'Maximum City'
turned bitter for a family from Pakistan. After visiting the iconic Haji Ali
dargah, the family of six from Karachi found that no hotel or lodge was willing
to give them rooms. When their efforts to return to their relatives' house in
Jodhpur too failed, the family that included three women and a boy had no option
but to spend the night on a footpath. Around this Eid a father and his son were
lynched to death for eating cow, though later it was found that they ate mutton.
Despite there is a resentment being expressed by the saner elements across
India, including actors and writers, there is no regret on the government level.
Now what has happened to this Karachi family is not a surprise; we must expect
even worse in coming days.