World Sindhi meet to be held in US

Leghari, in a hearing of the US subcommittee on Foreign Operations recently, had said that though the Sindh province in Pakistan contributes over 70 per cent of the total revenues in the country, the Sindhi community as such still remained alienated from the mainstream.

"The brand of Islam currently encouraged in Pakistan is incompatible with the spiritual values of most, if not all, citizens," he said, adding Islamic fundamentalism has dehumanized a vast majority of the already disfranchised entities such as women, peasants, urban working people, journalists and intellectuals there.

He urged the subcommittee to call for improvement in Pakistan’s record of human rights and democratic developments, including setting up of a democratically elected government.

Another member of the institute, Zahid Makhdoom, expressed concern over the safety and security of millions of Sindhi, Baluchi, Pushtoon and Punjabi democrats among other free thinking individuals in Pakistan with the increase of Islamic fundamentalism.