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Fake claims of disaster management: Prof. Khurshid Lahore, June 30: Naib ameer Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan Senator Prof. Khurshid Ahmad has said that Pakistan is in the grip of a national calamity caused by rains, floods and sea-storms. After the tragic earthquake of October 2005 the present national disaster has shaken the country once again. Several hundred people have been killed in Sindh, Balochistan and NWFP including FATA and hundreds of thousands uprooted and deprived of their homes and hearths. It was expected, the JI leader emphasized, that in view of October's earthquake as an eye-opener, the National Disaster Control Authority would equip itself with all the essential resources to swiftly respond to such natural calamities. Unfortunately, the arrangement has failed again and the Federal and Provincial Governments are acting as helpless spectators. Neither Emergency was declared in the effected areas immediately, nor all the civil and military resources mobilized to help the people. Response from the government agencies has been slow, poor and ineffective. It is height of criminality, Prof. Khurshid Ah added, that the Armed Brigade of Gen Musharraf's Karachi allies have invaded even the Edhi managed mortuary in Karachi to suppress evidence of this disaster, as this was expounding the failure of their Government in Karachi. According to Prof. Khurshid Ahmad, General Musharraf is busy in his political gimmicks in Islamabad and as such has no time to visit the effected areas. Even the Prime Minister has taken 5 days to awaken to the call of Karachi. This political failure of the regime is no less a calamity than the natural disaster that have hit the country. The JI leader has demanded that the Parliament should be requisitioned immediately to discuss this natural calamity. He has also demanded that Federal and Provincial Governments should forthwith stop their extravagant spending spree and release enough resources to affectees of this calamity in Sindh, Balochistan and NWFP and FATA. To provide relief and rehabilitate to the thousands affected by natural disaster, should be our first national priority. He has also appealed to all philanthropists and private charities to help their brethren and assist them in this hour of distress and national crisis. |
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