Sindh Rangers have recovered more than 70,000 hoarded face masks and arrested one person from Block 13-D of Gulshan-e-Iqbal in Karachi.
The operation was carried out on the Supreme Court’s orders to curb the hoarding of face mask after confirmation of coronavirus cases in the country.
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According to Rangers’ spokesperson:
The rangers team raided a house in Block 2 of PECHS after receiving a tipoff and made 1 arrest. The arrested person told the team that the masks had been stockpiled at Block 13-D of Gulshan-e-Iqbal.
Alongside, rangers also confiscated 200 transfusion drips during the raid.
In a separate incident, the rangers arrested a medical store owner who was caught charging Rs. 1650 for each pack of face masks.
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hang them to death
Kahawat ha k “bala b saat ghr chor k waar krfi ha” or ye ha baat baat pa Allah, Rasool or eman ki qasmein khaney walon ka haal. Baegharati or laluch ki tmam hudein jahan khatum hoti han wahan se hmarey karobari tubqae ki hudein shuru hoti han.
People who try to eat off the dead should be taught a GRAVE lesson. These are the actual parasites of our society and should be punished to the fullest extent of the law to set a precedent and to send a pragmatic response and a lesson for all existing parasites!!!