RAMESH has been cleaning my parents’ old house in Karachi for 25 years, and is a familiar, cheerful figure. However, when I wished him a happy Holi recently, he told me sadly that his community had not celebrated the Hindu festival because a mob had burned a dharamshala in Larkana.
Although this is part of a depressing pattern, the incident served to remind us yet again that Pakistan today is hardly a place for a non-Muslim. The grim truth is that if you are not a member of the mainstream faith and the ruling ethnic majority, you are living here on sufferance.
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