How likely is Sana Saleem’s Bolo Bhi to speak up for Pakistan’s Shia, Ahmadi, Baloch and Pashtun?

Here are some quick comments on Pakistan’s urban elite’s latest project Bolo Bhi (Speak Up!) which claims to be a champion of human rights and advocacy in Pakistan. Bolo Bhi is the latest in a series of similar projects by Pakistan’s urban elites which include: Lawyers Movement, Citizens for Democracy, Aman ki Asha, Gawaahi etc.

1. Pakistan’s urban elites including several of those in Sana Saleem’s Bolo Bhi project are notorious for keeping quiet on the ongoing genocides of the Shias, Balochs, Pashtuns and persecution of Ahmadiyya Muslims, Christians

You do not have the right to keep misrepresenting Shia massacres in Pakistan

Systematic massacres of Shia Muslims remain equally ignored by Pakistani media and human rights groups.

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Ahmadiyya Times: Activists slam rights organization statement as ’very weak,’ lacking integrity

Today, the first thing I received on Twitter was the following message from Amnesty International:

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Happy Human Rights Day!

Next I received a tweet which directed me to a Pakistani blogger Sana Saleem’s article titled “You do not have the right to remain silent” published in daily Dawn, to mark the celebration of human rights around the world.

The catchy title and the subject itself gave me hope that finally someone has decided to break Pakistan’s urban elite’s and media’s silence or