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PPP, PML-N join hands for flood-relief efforts in Pakistan | The Pakistan People’s Party ( PPP ) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) have joined hands to cope with the worst floods in the country’s history, and agreed on setting up a body to raise funds for the rehabilitation of the victims.
Addressing a joint press conference after a meeting in Islamabad , Prime Minister
Yousaf Raza Gilani and PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif expressed shock and grief over
the wide scale devastation. Gilani said that the commission would mobilize resources
and oversee the spending of funds to maintain a high level of transparency. “On
the suggestion of Nawaz Sharif, the government has decided to set up an independent
commission, comprising of impartial, non-controversial and principled individuals
to raise funds for rehabilitation of flood victims and to monitor the damage assessment
process for judicious distribution of resources to provinces,” The Daily Times
quoted Gilani, as saying. Nawaz said that his party would support the government
to work together for the rehabilitation of the affected people. “I proposed few
names for the body which the prime minister has approved. A ten-members body,
commission, or committee, would open its own account. It will also oversee the
damage and need assessment process in flood-affected areas. The government would
be the first to donate funds to the account of this body,” Nawaz said. “I and
the prime minister will go to the public to seek their generous support for flood
victims,” he added. The floods, triggered by torrential monsoon downpours just
over two weeks ago, have claimed the lives of over 1,600 people and disrupted
the lives of 14 million people, eight percent of the population. It is threatening
greater damage as relief and rescue work have been hit badly by continuous rains,
particularly in the northwestern region. The floods first struck the western province
of Baluchistan on July 22 before inundating the worst-hit Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province
and then entering Punjab and Sindh. |
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