"Sindh, Sailab Aur Zindaghy" is a reportage written by Dr Asif Mahmood Jah, an additional collector in the FBR but a medical practitioner by training who also heads an NGO Customs Health Care Society, Lahore. The reportage highlights relief and reconstruction activities of Customs Health Care Society, bordering self-praise, during devastating floods in 2010 in Sindh province.
The 240 Page reportage also includes more than 120 photographs showing inundated villages, towns rendering millions of people homeless, destitute, sick and hungry. Earlier this NGO had also participated in the rescue, relief and reconstruction activities in the aftermath of horrible earthquake of 8th October, 2005 which shocked Azad Kashmir and part of Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa, and later on, in Ziarat of Balochistan.
Besides Mehran Valley of Sindh, members of the NGO also operated in flooded areas of Nowshera to save thousands of people from flood ravages. Though several departments of Federal and Provincial governments and number of international and national humanitarian bodies also participated in the rescue, relief and reconstruction efforts in Badin, Sangarh, Mirpur Khas, Tando Allah Yar. Sukkur and other flood affected low laying areas of Sindh, yet one does not find a single reference to their good work in the reportage.
Dr Asif Jah is well known in the journalistic and literary circles of Lahore. First 72 pages of the reportage are written by well-known columnists in praise of the writer. They include such big names as novelist Mustansar Hussain, poets / columnists Hassan Nisar, Attaul Haque Qasmi, Orya Maqbool Jan, Ayaz Ahmad Aazer and others. The price of the reportage is too high for a common man as there is not any new material for a serious reader of average income.
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Book : "Sindh, Sailab Aur Zindaghy"
Author : Dr Asif Mehmood Jah
Publisher : Ilm-o-Irfan Publishers, Alhamd Market,
40-Urdu Bazar, Lahore
Pages : 240
Price : Rs 300
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