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Need of tin sheets instead of tents to the victims underscored Lahore, Nov. 30: Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Qazi Hussain Ahmad Wednesday visited the central relief camp of Al-Khidmat Foundation to see the relief supply activities for earthquake victims. Qazi Hussain Ahmad paid tributes to the party workers and volunteers working at the camp. District Ameer JI Rawalpindi Dr. Mohammad Kamal and camp incharge Dr. Hafeezur Rehman were also with him. Addressing the workers on the occasion, Qazi Hussain Ahmad said thousands of lives are in danger by snowfall and severe cold following the earthquake. He said little children and aged people are under particular threat of terminal diseases due to extreme cold weather. He expressed sorrow that so far government failed in doing what it should have done to provide protection to these people. He said over ten thousand JI workers from all over the country are participating in massive relief activities. JI has sent over two thousand trucks loaded with relief goods to the affected areas which included twenty five thousand tents, sixteen thousand tarpaulins, one hundred and twenty five thousand blankets and quilts. He said at present 23 medical centers and five field hospitals are functional in the affected areas where about nineteen hundred local and foreign doctors and twenty two hundred paramedical workers have served to provide medical aid to the victims. He said over two hundred lady doctors and doctors are still working there. Qazi Hussain Ahmad said JI's relief operations will continue till the complete rehabilitation of the affected people and the workers will brave the severe weather conditions with courage and spirit. Qazi reiterated appeal to Pakistanis, both inland and overseas, to donate whole heartedly for providing corrugated iron sheets and warm clothes to the affected people on emergency basis because temperature in those areas has already fallen below freezing point due to snowfall and people cannot survive in tents under that kind of weather. Qazi Hussain Ahmad also urged upon the government, political parties and political/religious organizations to provide corrugated iron sheets instead of tents to the affected people because these people are capable enough to build their houses on their own to suit the local weather conditions. |
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