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Pak Hindus being looted at gunpoint call for Army’s deployment in flood-affected areas | Pakistan’s Hindu community has called for deployment of Army in the flood-affected areas of Sindh province to safeguard the lives of thousands of Hindus allegedly being looted by the locals. Addressing the media at the Karachi Press Club, Pakistan
Hindu Council chief Ramesh Kumar appealed to the government to move in the Army
in the affected areas, including Ghospur, Kandkhot and Karmpur. “Our families
are being targeted at gun-point by the locals of their localities. About 95 shops
and 50 houses have been ransacked and looted by the miscreants,” The News quoted
Kumar, as saying. Kumar said that those who were evacuating the areas for safe
places were also being targeted and their vehicles were being looted. He said
that the situation was out of control as the police had abandoned the area, and
there was no one to help the affected people. Parts of Sindh are already under
water, and rescuers continue to evacuate people from the province, where the Indus
River banks are at risk of bursting. Two million people have already left the
area. At least 1,600 people have died in the country’s worst deluge in 80 years.
With over 14 million people already affected, the monsoon rains show little sign
of abating. |
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