Christian staff of Lahore Metropolitan Corporation under fire

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Lahore: May 12, 2011. (PCP) Convener World Minorities Alliance and Former Federal Minister J. Salik, has rejected as ‘exploitation of city’s sanitary workers’ the granting of waste collection contract to private parties. The former federal minister, known for his protest antics on various issues, Has termed the Punjab government’s decision an injustice to all the labours of Pakistan and about 7,500 sanitary workers in Lahore, because there Christian community .He threatened to launch a protest movement against “privatization” of solid waste management system of the city district government. He said the government must privatize corporations instead of the sanitary system and alleged that some forces were conspiring against the minorities by trampling on their rights. Mr Salik said minority members in the parliament were not real representatives of their communities and demanded “election of minority representatives on 10 reserved seats instead of their selection”. J.Salik insisted that the illegal way of selection should immediately be switched to election of seats through ballot papers so that the minorities may gain their right of voting for there representative. He said in September, 1972 minorities’ educational institutions had been nationalized and then also PPP government’s act was accepted in two provinces although this was excessiveness against the Christians, and Balouchistan’s, NAP government and NWFP’s ( Khyber Pakhtoon Kha) Mulana Mufti Mehmood did not accept this because according to them in Islam it is illegal to take any property of non-muslims without paying them. but no new ‘aggression’ against minorities would be tolerated.

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"Trial of Pakistani Christian Nation" By Nazir S Bhatti

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