Opinion - Letters to the Editor   

Wanted, Burneys

The heart-wrenching story of Najma Parveen living in Karachi, her husband Shahid, who is in jail in India, and their five children living with their relatives in Meerut; and similar accounts of scores of other Indians and Pakistanis, many of them in jails on either side on flimsy charges, make one pray that the tribe of Ansar Burney should increase (“Calling an Ansar Burney in India,” June 13).

However, a few Ansar Burneys here and there cannot tackle the humanitarian problem. Both countries should evolve a systematic and effective state policy and institutionalised mechanisms to address it.

Shahabuddin Nadeem,

Bangalore

Mohammed Ayaz Qureshi,

Chennai

Printer friendly page  
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Stories in this Section

Iraq and neocolonialism
More monetary tightening
Fertilising profit, sowing misery
Australia: a free-thinking ally of U.S.
Assessing the lawyers’ “long march”
Electoral system
War against state
Wanted, Burneys
Cooking with sun
Pathetic

Copyright © 2008, The Hindu. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu