The daughters of Hidayat Lohar, a Sindhi nationalist who was killed by unknown assailants, ended their five-day protest on Wednesday after holding a press conference. Surath Lohar and Sasai Lohar are also activists for the Voice for Missing Persons of Sindh, a group that demands the safe return of the disappeared Sindhis.
At the press conference, the sisters said that they have filed a petition in the court to register an FIR against their father’s killers, but they have no faith in the Pakistani judiciary. They said that their real court is the Sindhi nation, and they are taking their case to the Sindhi people. They announced that they will hold protest rallies across Sindh in the second phase of their campaign, and large-scale demonstrations in the third phase.
They also said that their protest is not only against the ‘state-sponsored’ murder of their father, but also against the killing, enforced disappearance, and oppression of the innocent Sindhis by the ‘fascist Pakistani state’. They said that the Sindhi nation must resist the ‘occupation’ and ‘oppression’ of their land and people, or else they will lose their identity and freedom.
The sisters claimed that their father, Hidayat Lohar, was killed for his support for the independence of Sindh. They vowed to avenge the death of their ‘martyrs’ with the liberation of Sindh.