Pakistan: Hindu minister attacked by protestors in Sindh; PM Shehbaz Sharif calls it 'unacceptable', assures probe
PTC News Desk: A Hindu minister in Pakistan was attacked in Sindh by the demonstrators who were protesting against the government's irrigation canal projects. The state minister for religious affairs, Kheal Das Kohistani, was driving through the province when protesters threw potatoes and tomatoes.
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif condemned the attack on Kohistani and assured him of a rigorous investigation into the incident. "The attack on public representatives is unacceptable. The persons involved in the incident would be given exemplary punishment," he said.
Kohistani was targeted during a protest where demonstrators opposed the federal government's irrigation canal projects, arguing that the initiatives would diminish the downstream flow of rivers essential for irrigation in Sindh.
As a member of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Kohistani faced chants and slogans from protesters criticizing his party's federal leadership.
The federal government has unveiled a plan to build six canals in Punjab's Cholistan region as part of the Green Pakistan Initiative—a project backed by the influential military, the federal administration, and the Punjab provincial government.
However, several political parties and nationalist groups in Sindh have been opposing the initiative, arguing that the construction of these canals would decrease the downstream water flow and negatively impact irrigation in their region.
- With inputs from agencies
