Pakistan Tehreek Insaaf (PTI) has demanded the government to declare the flood-affected regions as the natural calamity-hit areas and write off agriculture loans and other taxes and the government also announce special packages for the flood-affected areas and victims.
Taking to journalists from Islamabad on phone here on Wednesday, Shah Mehmood Qureshi said PPP and PML-N governments have remained failed in building consensus over national unity and devising foolproof strategy against flood devastation. The PTI vice chairman said the flood victims are suffering because the PPP and the PML-N governments in the past failed to make a solid strategy to avoid from flood destructions.
The PML-N has been ruling in Punjab for the last 30 years in collaboration with the friendly PPP opposition, but both the brother and sister parties have remained failed in devising fool-proof strategy against natural calamities in not only the Punjab but also across the country.
The water storage is the solution to flood devastation but the PPP and the PML-N governments had failed in building consensus in the past for the construction of new dams. He said the India is violating the Indus Basin Treaty unabatedly but the government had been kept mum over the repeated Indian violations. Shah Mehmood Qureshi has expressed solidarity with flood victims who are ripening the consequences of flood because of failed policies of the past PPP and PML-N governments.
He also expressed his concerns over the loss of lives and property in result of flood devastation. He also expressed his all sympathies with the victims. He said the farmers are the prime target of flood devastation and their crops have almost been destroyed. He demanded the government to take measures to control the flood water by enhancing the storage capacity of the country. Shah Mehmood Qureshi also demanded the government to declare the flood-affected areas as calamity hit and exempt the area from levying all types of agriculture taxes. He demanded the government compensation of the flood victim in latter and spirit.
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