peshawar – Governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Faisal Karim Kundi on Wednesday acquired a 10-truck reduction consignment despatched by the Authorities of Sindh for flood-affected individuals of Chitral, saying the help mirrored inter-provincial solidarity in occasions of disaster.
The reduction items, comprising meals objects, consuming water, tents and different non-food objects, will likely be transported to Chitral by the Pakistan Purple Crescent Society (PRCS) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for distribution among the many affected households.
Speaking to media individuals after receiving the consignment, the Governor thanked the Authorities of Sindh for extending well timed help, saying Sindh had at all times stood with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa throughout troublesome occasions. He stated President Asif Ali Zardari, PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Sindh Chief Minister had persistently supported the individuals of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. He stated that the reduction provides had been dispatched instantly after a request was made for help to the flood victims of Chitral.
The Governor urged the Nationwide Catastrophe Administration Authority (NDMA) and Provincial Catastrophe Administration Authority (PDMA) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to speed up rehabilitation efforts, whereas calling upon the Nationwide Freeway Authority (NHA) to revive broken roads within the affected areas on the earliest.
Highlighting the necessity to strengthen catastrophe preparedness, Kundi stated that solely one of many NDMA’s 11 warehouses was positioned in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa regardless of the province being probably the most weak to floods. He demanded institution of three to 4 further reduction warehouses, together with in Malakand and Dera Ismail Khan. He additionally urged the NDMA chairman to broaden reduction operations in Chitral and set up extra warehouses within the province to make sure a immediate response to future emergencies.
The Governor stated that whereas the Sindh authorities’s reduction consignment had reached Chitral, the provincial authorities’s support had but to achieve the affected individuals. He confused that reduction actions ought to stay free from politics and that well timed help to flood victims should stay the highest precedence.
He appealed to federal and provincial authorities in addition to welfare organisations to step ahead and assist the flood-hit inhabitants. He additionally urged the provincial administration to right away dispatch groups to the affected areas and guarantee shut monitoring of reduction operations.
PDMA officers, PPP Khyber Pakhtunkhwa President Muhammad Ali Shah Bacha, Chairman Pakistan Purple Crescent Society Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Farzand Ali Wazir and PRCS Provincial Secretary had been additionally current on the event.
