As much as we would like to tout an Islamic state as the epitome of positive treatment for minorities, the very fact that it establishes a Muslim-non-Muslim differentiation suffices in it not being the path to a modern day egalitarian state
Source/Credit: Pakistan Today
By K.K. Shahid | March 7, 2018
On both local and international media Krishna Kumari Kohli is being lauded as the ‘first Dalit woman’ to become a Senator in Pakistan. In fact, she was earlier erroneously called the first female Hindu Senator, but has been duly corrected, since Ratna Bhagwandas Chawla was elected in 2006.
But the change has been made to ‘first Dalit woman’, which not only gives the publications the ‘feel good’ story that often sells well, but for Pakistani media this was an opportunity to do one over their counterparts in India, where Dalits are a persecuted community.
However, in this race to go first nobody bothered to check whether the ‘feel good’ story actually made Krishna Kohli feel any good.
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