Women in Chashma Goth are worried because of the sea conditions. Photo: Express
Karachi: Residents of several coastal Goths refused to vacate their residences defying the government directive.
In view of the cyclone, there is a risk of heavy rain and wind in Karachi, Chairman UC9 Imran Yousafzai has delivered 10 buses to the residents of Chashma Goth Jatpara and nearby shelter homes to deal with the emergency situation. What is established?
Speaking to Express, the UC chairman said that we have made advance arrangements in view of the storm. Two and a half hundred families can come comfortably to the shelter home and will shift the residents if the sea waves increase in intensity.
On the other hand, despite the arrangements, the oldest inhabitants of Pakistan, 40 thousand residents of Jatpara in Chashma Goth, are not ready to leave their homes.
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Rab Nawaz, a 65-year-old resident of Chashma Goth, while talking to Express, said that I am a laborer in this Goth and I am the elder of the area, I used to get 1500 daily wages. Due to which they are facing unemployment, the family has been living here for two and a half hundred years. They have seen the worst flood situation twice. Last time, the house, goods, animals were all submerged. Our huts are made of bamboo and mats which will collapse in a strong wind but we will stay awake all night but not leave the house.
The resident Rab Nawaz demanded the government to fix the houses instead of relocating them, the 70-year-old Moors talking to Express said that the government never helps. All the children are unemployed and we can control this situation by ourselves.
Shahnaz, a resident of Chashma Goth, said that we will not leave the house because we have small children and the goods are also stolen. Everything was stolen in the previous flood.
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