Government of Sindh is establishing relief camps for the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) coming from Malakand division and the process of registration has already started so as to facilitate all those entering the province. This was revealed by the Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah while addressing a gathering at Risalpur after distributing relief goods there.
He rejected the reports that displaced people were being stopped from entering Sindh and claimed that several IDP camps have been set up in Sindh to cater to these IDPs. He said that the Sindh government would not only accommodate the IDPs coming to the camps but would also help them out in the rehabilitation. He said his government was committed even to extend hand of assistance to the IDPs living in the camps in NWFP.
Qaim Ali Shah said that initially his government would provide 5,000 fans and water coolers to all the IDPs living in Lahore camp of Swabi district. Qaim stressed the donors to donate generously and asked the IDPs not to feel like the refugees as they, he said, belonged to Pakistan and every part of the country was their own land. He assured the IDPs coming to the Sindh province would never feel lonely and efforts would be made to provide them assistance and relief goods.
He said IDPs were not the refugees but they were the citizens of this country and they had faced the tough challenges for the sake of their homeland. Present on the occasion, NWFP Chief Minister Ameer Haider Hoti said that he would take up some important matters regarding the problems of IDPs with the federal government.
He said that he was well aware of the problem like unavailability of fans, lack of health facilities, unavailability of anti-snake venom, and efforts would be made to provide all such facilities in all the camps without further delay. He said millions of IDPs were living a miserable life and their sacrifices would be remembered for a long time.
He informed that all those militants active in Malakand division and elsewhere in the province were not Taliban but they were the terrorists and such people were actually against the foundation of the country but the government, he said, would eliminate them. Ameer Haider Hoti assured that all the displaced families would get a package of Rs 25,000 each and no one would be deprived of this assistance.
He also said that all those patients getting serious would be referred to the major hospitals in Peshawar and big cities. Hoti said that the security forces would very soon clear the Swat areas and they were about to reach to Pir Baba Area. He said that the military operation in Malakand division was actually the war for survival and the government would win against the militants.
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