Hundred of affected people of Earthquake Drosh area held protest rally against the district administration and in favour of Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif. These affected people are still waiting for relief cheques. The rally was started from Zero Point Drosh passing through front of civil court, main bazaar and ended at main square of Drosh where it converted in a public meeting-cum sit-in. The protest rally was leading by Qari Nizamuddin, Abdul Bari, Salahuddin Toofan and other elites of the area.
They protestors said that Drosh was mostly affected by 26th October earthquake where 11 people died and hundreds of houses were damaged most of them were totally damaged and its residents are still living under open sky or in a tent without any shelter.
They said that most of damaged houses were still not visited by assessment team nor the district administration. They said that affected people could not get cheques of financial support or any other support. They were chanted slogan in favour of Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif who visited Chitral twice by granting a huge amount for victims but the district administration not distributed it transparently and most of the affected people were deprived from this relief package.
Addressing to the public meeting cum-sit-in, the speakers lamented administration and some elected councillors and Nazimeens who supported some near and dears undue without any loss and issued more than two cheques in one family. But in the same village they totally ignored some poor people whose were damaged fully or partially.
Similarly most of affected people are busy in reconstructing of their houses on their own expenditure without government support by getting loan from their relative but some helpless victims are still living under open sky or in a simple tent in this severe cold weather.
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