The Kutchhi and Baloch communities of Lyari are the flowers of one bouquet, said former ambassador to the United Nations Abdullah Hussain Haroon.
He was speaking at the sixth anniversary commemoration of the Kutchhi Rabta Committee (KRC) at Ibrahim Hyderi on Sunday. The programme also paid homage to the victims of the Peshawar school attack and the Shikarpur imambargah attack as well as the ‘KRC martyrs’.
Haroon claimed that their community was the one that created Pakistan and they welcomed all those who made their way to Karachi with open hearts. “There is no estrangement between Karachi’s old communities,” he claimed. He said that the government had turned a blind eye towards the Kutchhi and Gujarati Memon communities, who are mostly fishermen by profession.
“We have no political motives,” said KRC central president Muhammad Hussain. “Our objective, rather, is to safeguard the ancient communities residing in this city whose (very) existence is now at stake.”
However, the KRC’s critics claim the organisation was created as a bulwark against the PAC (People’s Aman Committee)
