Pakistan police lathicharge Hindus protesting towards kidnappings

Several members of Pakistan’s Hindu group and different faiths have been injured on Thursday after the police in Sindh province baton charged them as they held a sit-in towards the rising instances of kidnappings of Hindu merchants and others from minority communities for ransom.

The members of the minority communities have been staging the protest since September 1 over the kidnapping of some members of the minority group by bandits in riverine areas in southern Sindh province’s Kashmore.

On Thursday, whereas the protesters continued with their agitation, the police baton charged and injured a few of them after they refused to finish the protest regardless of the intervention of an influential chief of the Pakistan Peoples Party that has ruled the Sindh province for over a decade.

“Ahsan Mazari, a former minister and influential leader of the PPP joined the protesters initially to express solidarity with them and even got two kidnapped Hindu traders released from the grip of these riverine dacoits,” Shiva Kacchi informed PTI on the phone.

He mentioned that after the discharge of the 2 abductees, Mazari had requested the protesters to disperse and guaranteed them the authorities would now deal with the matter and get others launched.

“But when those part of the protest flatly refused, insisting they had no confidence in the local police officials Mazari left and after a while the police baton charged the protesters. But despite the injuries they are still there in small numbers at the sit-in,” Kacchi mentioned.

Kacchi mentioned the dacoits had additionally kidnapped many members of different minority communities for ransom.

Dr Chand Mahar, one of many organisers of the protest, mentioned {that a} complete of 5 Hindus together with a nine-year-old boy had been kidnapped by the dacoits in current days and only some days again a seven-year-old Hindu lady, Priya Kumari was additionally kidnapped from close to Sanghar.

He mentioned the spate of incidents the place members of the group had been kidnapped by dacoits had unfold concern locally and so they have been afraid to even ship their kids to highschool in lots of elements of the province the place these dacoits operated overtly.

The protesters had gathered since Sunday night in Kandhkot city after a 72-year-old Hindu businessman, Mukhi Jagdish was kidnapped.

Dacoits who function from the riverine areas of Sindh have kidnapped round 40 individuals together with Hindu merchants in the previous few months.

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Sep 7, 2023