KARACHI, March 25: Speakers at a demonstration on Sunday demanded that water connections be provided to the minority community that has been living in Lyari for over a century.

Speaking at the protest organized by Pasban at Karachi Press Club, the speakers – Akram Agariya, Victor Gill, Khalid Chand, Yunus Bhatti and others – said that over 500 families belonging to the minority communities have been living in the Slaughter House, Lyari, for over a century, but they have not yet been provided with water connections. They said that the poor families had to purchase water at high rates.

They said that the city government’s sanitary staff posted in the vicinity where these members of the minority community live also did not clean up the area.

They said that though the minority community members had approached the civic agencies concerned time and again, their problems had yet to be solved. They demanded that the minority community members be provided all civic amenities immediately.