On ihe plight of Honourable distinguished Delegates Good Afternoon. From the desk of WSJ minorities in province of Sindh,Pakistan Chairperson ,ladies and gentlemen and On behalf of World Sindhi institute, it's President, Sohail Ansari and General secretary Humaira Rahman, l extend the sincere appreciation for organising this event on minorities issues. Indeed SWI feels privileged and encouraged to be part of this global voice in support of minorities anywhere every where around the globe . I avail my self here an opportunity to briefly introduce the WSI.The WSI , World Sindhi Institute, is diaspora organisation based in Washington, DC. WSI is committed to achieving human rights for the Sindhis of Sindh in southeastern Pakistan through a nonviolent advocacy, activism and academic campaign. WSI brings together Sindhis of all religious and geographical backgrounds and their supporters in a proactive, progressive movement whose purpose is to inform others of the human rights atrocities occurring in Sindh. Madam chairpersons Province of sindh is increasingly becoming hostile place to minorities living in sindh ,Given the fact that most of the minorities population is settled in province of sindh, plight of minorities living over there merits immediate attention . To illustrate the atrocities and hate related practices being faced by minorities.I would like to quote here a tragic event of defiling of corpse of Bhooro bheel .Bheel is local lingua for the low caste Hindu minority living in Sindh .-His death occurred due to road accident ,which happened two days before his death,he was buried in local graveyard where traditionally low caste Hindus and Muslims bury there dead members.however very next day group of armed individuals lead by local cleric of Muslim religious seminary exhumed his grave and threw corpse out of the graveyard claiming it was against Sharia to bury member of any minority member near Muslims' graves. Bhooro Bheel's body remained unprotected near the road for almost eight hours as his family and relatives were scared of the mob .Law enforcement agencies did not bother to intervene and prevent the incident. It is important to mention here that Hindus are the largest religious minority in Pakistan, and a majority of them dwell in Sindh who consider it their motherland. For the past decade Minorities have been facing persecution like kidnappings for ransom, forced conversions of young girls. Such events have prompted the exodus of minorities from Sindh. Legal structure of Pakistan has not proved in practice to completely protect the rights of minorities .in many cases it has miserably failed to prevent the abuse of Hudood ordinance and blasphemy lawS.These laws were introduced by late seventy's by dictatorial regime led by general zia ul haq and still continue to be part of legal codes. Almost two years back prominent politicians in Pakistan were shot dead over their opposition to Pakistan's controversial blasphemy laws. It included the then sitting governor of Punjab province Salman Taseer and a minister for minorities Shahbaz Bhatti ,there only crime was to point to the need for public debate of laws on media. Such high profile killings speak of intensity of issue on one hand and intolerance and extremism on the other hand. Abuse of these laws is continuously creating a climate of fear among Pakistan's religious minorities and progressive Muslim population as well . There is critical and urgent need to de-islamise the Pakistan's legal system. Pakistani federal and provincial government should be emphasised,to review laws to make it rnore democratic , Violation-of losic -rit ftts-i§—nOtb-nly -linited to religious minorities it is visible among the ethnic population of Sindhi and Baloch. international organisation like UN has shown and proved sensitivity to enforced disappearances and extra - judicial deaths of political activists from Sindh and Balochistan. , -