ISLAMABAD: S M Zafar chairman of the Human Rights Society of Pakistan, has hailed V P Singh for taking a firm stand to protect the right of Muslim minorities in India.
Talking to newsmen in Karachi, Zafar said the decisions taken by Singh on the Ram Janam bhoomi Babri Masjid issue were both valid and prove to be historically correct. He called upon free world countries to support the action taken by Singh and urged the elements in India not to make the dispute a political issue.
He expressed the hope that all scanner elements in India would prevai over the “retrogative Hindu Fundamentalism.”
In Rawalpindi, the Tehrik Aakhuwat L Islami has declared that Friday would be observed as a “Black Day” in protest against attempts to damage the Babri Majid.
A report from Faisalabad said hundreds of Islami Jamiat Tulaba workers took out a procession to mark their resentment over the developments in Ayodhya.
The students carried placards which said “Babri Masjid a sign of Muslim honour and dignity”.
The Pakistani media has given prominent coverage to the Ram-janam-bhoomi Babri Masjid issue with some dailies coming out with editorial comments,
The “Muslim” Thursday said the threat of an impending civil was hung heavily over India. “In the larger interest of not only India but the region as a whole, it is of essence that sanity prevails before it is too late”.
The Lahore based “Nation” said Singh may lose his job on November 7. “Nevertheless, in this round, the maverick Raja Sahib ‘was lived up to his reputation by not going along with conventional norms of political behavior”.
Singh has taken up cudgels for a just cause of the Muslim minority and for this he has been assured a position of distinction in Indian politics, regardless of victory or defeat, it said.
Article extracted from this publication >> November 9, 1990
