Urdu-speaking people have urged the government to fulfill their four-point demand which include plot of land, stopping of eviction drive, undisrupted electricity supply and ensuring security at their all 70 camps across the country. ‘Stranded Pakistanis’ General Repatriation Committee’ (SPGRC) made the demands at a press conference at the National Press Club on Thursday.
“We are living in panic as police has sued a number of Urdu-speaking people residing at Geneva camp in Mohammadpur of the capital centering a sit in programme on 5 October 5 last in demand of undisrupted electric supply in the camp,” said, M Shawkat Ali, General Secretary of SPGRC.
He further said, “There are many students in 70 Geneva camps of Urdu-speaking people in different districts across the country. In these circumstances, we are facing five to eight hour electricity load shedding every day. As a result, the students have been suffering very much as their final examination is very close.”
The sit-in was held to draw the attention of the government about their demand. But a group of youth suddenly attacked on the programme and assaulted male, female and children indiscriminately. But police filed case accusing the Urdu-speaking people, he alleged.
The SPGRC leader urged the government and the police to withdraw the case filed against them and to identify and punish those who attacked on them. They also urged the government to allot them plots not flats to implement the Prime Minister’s assurance about rehabilitations of Urdu-speaking people living in camps.