A polarised society.

Byline: SYED HUSSAIN AHMED - Karachi.

I would like to share an incident which happened a few months ago.In my neighbourhood, we have a central mosque where I usually offer my prayers. One day I went there to offer my evening prayers and was met with the shocking image of the body of our assistant Imam lying in a coffin on the floor of the mosque. On inquiry, I was told that he was shot dead while he was going home in the afternoon. I knew him since the past six years and it felt like someone close to me had been brutally murdered. One of his daughters, only 12 years old, was asking everyone why her father was sleeping in a wooden box and why he was not waking up. No one had the courage to answer that little girl.

In Pakistan, our people are divided among different things: class, religion, sect, ethnicity, to name a few. I don't know what that poor man did for which he was condemned to death by some unknown assailants, but it is proof of the intolerance that exists in us. It is important that we accept a difference of opinion. Let's agree to disagree. We live in a democratic society where...