KARACHI: Over four thousand refugees of various areas of [the city] demonstrated outside the Prime Minister’s House on Sunday [July 30]. The rain-stricken refugees demanded permanent shelter for their families. The representatives of the demonstrators … were stated to have told [the PM] that immediate arrangements should be made for the permanent settlement of the refugees.

… About three hundred refugees of Quaid-a-Bad … demanded that the lands given to them temporarily for raising hutments should be made permanent and they should be allowed to make pucca houses which would give them protection from rain. — Staff correspondent

[Meanwhile, news agencies from Sialkot report,] one Pakistani grass cutter was killed by … Bharati soldiers … near Gondyal village in Narowal tehsil, yesterday [July 29]… . … [He] was … cutting grass on Pakistan side … when some Bharati militarymen, apparently, under some misunderstanding fired at him… . … United Nations observers … started investigations. Another report from Jagwal … says that last week about 10 Bharatis … tried to escape with 12 cattle heads… . Their attempt … was foiled… .

Published in Dawn, July 31st, 2025