National Assembly Deputy Speaker Sardar Muhammad Yaqoob said on Saturday that people living on high altitude in the quake-affected areas have prepared themselves to brave the winter season with the co-ordination of the government and the NGOs.
Speaking in a PTV programme, he said the people have either got settled at their birth places or in the camps with a food stock of around three months.
Yaqoob said the people in these areas are adapt to living in the cold winter conditions while the government is providing them free of cost flour for three months and they themselves with the help of NGOs have arranged the stock of other food commodities as well.
He said the survivors are very much satisfied with the supply of relief goods and life is fast returning to normal.
The business activities have also been resumed in the affected areas and the schools are functioning almost everywhere, he said.
To a question, the NA Deputy Speaker said the matter of relief in agriculture and housing loans in the quake-affected areas is being considered, adding a decision to this effect would be taken in the Cabinet meeting.
He said that appropriate medical facilities are available at Basic Health Units level in all the affected areas.
To another question, he said efforts are being made to reunite the separated people and families and the results so far are very encouraging.
Yaqoob said the whole Pakistani nation has made a new history in post-earthquake conditions. And it was due to unity and commitment on part of the nation that normal activities of life have resumed in the catastrophic hit areas in a very short time.
He hoped the spirit of brotherhood that the people of Pakistan demonstrated with quake survivors on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr would be repeated on the Eid-ul-Azha also.
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