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| ‘Dead bodies in water entering Pakistan from India’: Defence Minister Khawaja Asif makes bizarre claim | | | | ISLAMABAD AUGUST 31:-
Pakistan Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif made waves this week after claiming that floodwater entering the country from India had carried ‘dead bodies’. More than a million people were evacuated from their homes in Pakistan this week as the Punjab province faced its worst flooding in four decades. Torrential monsoon rain has left over 1,400 villages were inundated and also and submerged vital grains crops. India had also issued a flood warning for the neighbouring country last week — highlighting the possibility of downstream flooding as it opened the gates of major dams in the Kashmir region.
According to a Pakistani news portal, Asif told reporters that floodwaters entering from India had carried ‘dead bodies and livestock’. The update shared by Dialogue Pakistan came while the Defence Minister was visiting flood-affected areas in Sialkot to assess the damage. Asif claimed that locals had witnessed corpses being ‘swept across the border’ and noted that Sialkot lay downstream from water channels originating in Jammu.
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