The Federal Government and the PTI disagree in the National Assembly on Friday, since the latter said that “not enough” was being done to provide relief to those affected by the recent floods in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and boycotted the session on the disqualification of its legislators.
The record rains in KP, which began on August 15, have wreaked havoc throughout the province. The provincial government declared an emergency when the torrential rains devastated the houses, moved to the families and left a trace of destruction through Buner, Swat, Shangla, Mansehra and beyond.
The president of the PTI, the lawyer Gohar Ali Khan, expressed his dissatisfaction with the help provided by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) to the population of KP affected by the floods, particularly Buner, the worst area beaten in the province, stating that the authority “did not help as much as it should have done.”
“I say in this forum that we will continue to disagree with the NDMA,” Gohar said on the floor. “I said the day before the night that the NDMA only gave us some supplies in Buner, while 236 people have been killed, 120 were injured and 1,470 stores and 875 houses have been destroyed.”
Gohaha was interrupted by the Minister of Law and Human Rights, Azam Nazeer Tarar, who qualifies the complaint of the PTI leader as “policy only for the good of politics” and urged the party to focus on people’s problems.
The law minister explained that the disaster response has three levels.
“There is a District Disaster Authority, which run the Deputy Commissioners of the Province; then there is the Provincial Authority for Disaster Management, which is also directed by the province,” Tarar said.
“The NDMA focuses on the exchange of information. I will provide a detailed explanation, but if the opposition asks for the good of politics and then it comes out, then I do not know what assembly we are sitting.”
The speaker Ayaz Sadiq called him “very unfortunate” that PTI’s leaders complain of not being able to speak even though Gohar and the unconditional of PTI Asad Qaiser had spoken several times.
When Gohar began his speech, Sadiq offered to organize a visit to the opposition to the Central Office of the NDMA.
Speaking later during the session, Tarar said that RS1.3 billion had been released to the NDMA for the relief of floods and other activities.
“The nation needs to work together for the relief of floods,” said the minister on the floor of the National Assembly. “The federal government is working with provinces in aid operations.
The minister added that the NDMA launches alerts and has a mobile application.
“We recommend that those in affected areas discharge the application; 92 percent of the predictions are precise,” he said.
“Relief has a long way to go, so we ask the nation to maintain and help those affected by floods,” Tarar said.
Ready to sit and talk about Baluchistan: Tallal Chaudhry
Meanwhile, Interior Affairs Minister, Tallal, Chaudhry, expressed the will of the federal government to sit with leadership and political representatives of Baluchistan for conversations on the subject of missing persons.
Stating that the government had zero tolerance for any problem on the matter, the minister said: “No institution wants to be guilty or [wants] That any agency displaces people outside the law, this cannot happen. “
Chaudhry pointed out that a Rally of the National Baluchistan Party in Mengal in Quetta, where a suicide bombardment took place earlier this week, took place without security authorization from the Ministry of Interior.
He said that political meetings were soft objectives for terrorists, so the government insisted that the programs of said type need security authorization.
The Minister of State also said that the Government, himself and the district administration were in contact with the Baloch Jakjehti committee, which participates in an ongoing sitting in Islamabad. However, he did not mention the group by name, or who was in contact.
The group is protesting the launch of the members of the group sent, including Chief Coordinator Dr. Mahrang Baloch.
He said that the women of Baluchistan called them “our sisters and daughters,” protested in front of the Islamabad press club and the government was accused of ignoring them.
“This is not the case. They are our daughters, although they protest on a very important path and attempts are being made to provide them with security and facilitate them despite judicial orders and legislation on the protests of this camera.”
He said the government was trying to handle the situation legally, but “unfortunately, many people go to protest for photo sessions.”
Chaudhry claimed that the protest was “retained as hostage by some women and people who used it for their own personal score.”
Despite that, he said that the government was open to conversations and that several people had contacted them, but the reason for any conclusion was “many demands that the government cannot meet”, adding that it could not free people freely on bail who were under trial in court.
