KHAIRPUR, April 3 PPP MNA Nafisa Shah has said that torching shops of people belonging to a particular community is a cruel act and it is responsibility of the Sindh government to protect their lives and property.

Speaking at Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan alias Bacha Khan Peace Conference held in Mill Colony ground on Thursday night, she said that the people involved in targeting shops were enemies of Sindh and Sindhis.

She said that Pakistan was going through a crisis but the PPP government would face it with the help of people. Terrorism could not be curbed with weapons but with power of people, she said.

Ms Shah lauded peace ideology of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan and said that he had served people throughout his life.

She said that Benazir Bhutto was aware of threats to her life still she returned home and addressed public gatherings.

The senior vice-president of Awami National Party Haji Asmatullah Khan Mehsud, who presided over the conference, said that the conference was being held at the land of Sufi poet Sachal Sarmast because Sufis were the real leaders of peace.

He said that Bacha Khan struggled for the rights of people and he had good political relations with the nationalist and leftist leaders of Sindh.

During war in Afghanistan Bacha Khan had said that the bullets being fired in Afghanistan would also affect other parts of the region, he said and added that the world had now seen terrorism had reached Lahore.

He deplored that residence of Khan Abdul Wali Khan in Swat had been demolished and thrown into Swat river and over 80 ANP workers had been killed in the valley.

He said that the shops of Pakhtoons in Hyderabad, Larkana, Ghotki, Shahdadkot, Mehar and other parts of the province had been set on fire and “we do know of the conspiracy hatched by a particular organisation against them”.

Kidnapped An influential landlord of the area Mehmood Tunio was kidnapped on Thursday night from Nao Pathano village in the jurisdiction of Agra police station.