ISLAMABAD: The special committee of Senate constituted for the
assistance of the flood affectees of Sindh has collected Rs 11 million
approximately from which edible oil and other essential items would be
distributed among the calamity hit people.
The meeting of the
committee was held at Parliament House here on Tuesday. The opposition
leader in upper house Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haidry was on the chair.
The meeting took review the loss from the heavy rains and flood as well
as relief and rescue operation in Sindh. The meeting decided that the
Senators would deposit 25,000 rupees each forms their salary in the
account of Senate Emergency Relief Fund. On the occasion PML(N) Senator
Ishaq Dar announced to donate one million rupees , six senators of MQM
also announced to give Rs 0.5 million , Humayun Khan Mandokhel also
gave same amount, whereas Senators Tariq Azim, Gulshan Saeed, Ilyas
Bilour and Ghufran Khan also deposited Rs 0.2 million each for the help
of flood affectees.
The committee was informed that Rs 2.5
million would be collected form the Senators, whereas Rs 3.6 million is
already in the Senate Emergency Relief’s account. President Federation
of Chambers of Commerce and Industry Haji Ghulam Ali announced that the
federation would donate Rs 2.5 million for the relief of flood-affected
people of Sindh.
For relief work and monitoring, the committee
also constituted three sub committees including Finance, Procurement
Committees and third one would to coordinate with the traders. The head
of Finance sub committee would be Haji Adeel, procurement sub
committee‘s chairman would be Ishaq Dar. Seemi Siddiqui would chair the
sub committee for the coordination with traders.
On the
occasion Rehmat Ullah Kakar suggested that Pakistani ambassadors should
be mobilized to collect funds for the relief of flood hit population.
Senator Sajid Mir criticized the working of NDMA by saying that the
performance of the authority is not up to the mark. Senator Raja
Zafar-ul-Haq said that both President and Prime Minister should have
been present in the country when the Sindh is inundated with floods. He
said that at present the amount of Rs 29 billion is present in PSDP
which should be utilized for the support of flood affected people. Online
