27/05/2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bjqbnc4aH2k
A Cry for Justice from the Shadows of Islamabad 🇵🇰
In the heart of Pakistan’s capital, just minutes away from the grand structures of power and prestige, lies a forgotten slum—a place where the cries of the poor echo unheard, and the hopes of the marginalized fade under the weight of injustice.
This is an Islamic Republic. A country built on the promise of justice, equality, and compassion. Yet, in this very land, there are citizens—human beings, families, children—who live without access to clean water, stable electricity, proper shelter, education, or safety. These are not luxuries. These are basic human rights.
A resident bravely filed a complaint to the Capital Development Authority (CDA)—a desperate plea about the open drains running beside their homes, dangerous naked telecom wires dangling above thatched roofs, unaffordable WAPDA electricity bills, and the constant power outages. Restaurants in Jinnah Market shamelessly dump their waste near the colony, creating a toxic, unsafe environment for small children to grow up in.
And yet... no one from the government, no "supreme" authority, has stepped in.
The Christian community, already a minority, lives in fear—fear that speaking up will only bring harassment, not help. So they suffer in silence, trapped between poverty and persecution.
This is not just neglect. This is abandonment.
This is not governance. This is injustice.
To every government official, to every citizen with a voice: Where is your humanity?
Will we continue to ignore our own people simply because they are poor? Because they are a minority?
We demand dignity. We demand justice. We demand that every Pakistani—regardless of religion, caste, or class—be given the basic rights they deserve.
Share this. Speak up. Be the voice for those who have been silenced for too long.
Because silence is no longer an option.
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