President of Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf Imran Khan has said that the government agencies failed in carrying out the relief operation in the earthquake-affected areas of Azad Kashmir and NWFP. In an interview with a private TV channel he said so far only five percent of the total six lakh destroyed houses have been paid compensation after a passage of two years.
He said according to an NGO 'Sungi' only 300 out of 6,500 destroyed schools have been reconstructed so far. The affected people have to pay bribe to the concerned officials to get the compensation, he added.
To a question he said the local government system was adopted in the name of devolution of power to improve the deteriorating system of the government. This new system, he said, also deteriorated the old system as well as corruption has increased manifold in the new system. He claimed that funds donated for the development of earthquake-hit areas only were being spent on the development of other areas in the NWFP under political pressure.
Imran Khan said that the entire system of government in Pakistan is for a small elite class even the National Recompilation Ordinance is also for a small group of people from elite. "We can correct the local government system by empowering the directly elected union nazims", he opined.
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