ISLAMABAD: President of Awami Muslim League (AML) and former
minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed has said that rulers did not learn any
lesson from the last year devastating floods in Sindh and Punjab and
this is very reason that deluge played havoc in one province and dengue
made destruction in another.
He said this while speaking a
press conference at National Press Club here on Saturday. He said that
Punjab government has not provided any facility to the dengue patients
anywhere in the province expect Lahore. The dengue patients should be
provided free of cost clinical tests and medication by declaring
emergency in entire province.
He said that the government of
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa did not even spend a single penny for prevention of
dengue virus. If the lethal disease outbursts there, it would have a
direct impact on Islamabad and Rawalpindi too.
AML Chief said
that blood testing machinery was not available at Benazir Bhutto
Hospital Rawalpindi. “The hospital should have been well equipped,
where leader of ruling PPP Benazir took her last breath, but sadly even
medicine for dengue patients is not available there”, Sheikh Rashid
added.
He said if government got the spray to eradicate
mosquito under malaria control programme every year regularly, then the
nation might be saved from the menace of dengue virus. He said that the
virus would not leave the nation so early and easily.
He said
that the big landlords of Sindh saved their land by putting breaches in
the dams and turned the floodwater towards poor people so that they
could confiscate the land of poor farmers. He said if the corrupt
officers of Sindh agriculture department involved in Tori Band case
would have been punished, the current situation would not have arisen.
Regarding
the law and order situation in Karachi he said that the effects of
Zulfiqar Mirza’s statements would appear soon. He said that all the
people should work collectively for restoration of peace in Karachi.
“If
anyone tries to expel out other people from Karachi, the state of
affairs would be so much deteriorated, that the condition would be out
of control of police and the rangers”, he added. Online
