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India-Pakistan
Flood victims still waiting for help
2012-12-08
[Dawn] TAUNSA SHARIF: It is difficult to walk around the small piece of land that used to be Laal Khan's home.

Most of his belongings are still buried under piles of mud and earth. The outer rim of a handi sticks out on the right. And a wooden leg piece of a charpai on the left. Khan's family still lives in a tent that Al Khidmat Foundation -- Jamaat-e-Islami
...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
's charity wing -- handed out in Basti Guhman in district Dera Ghazi Khan.

"They weren't even going to drop by. But we got a personal contact to put in a special request," says Khan. "No government official came, other than the ones who jotted down our names."

"The ones" that Khan is referring to is National Engineering Services Pakistain (NESPAK), the institution entrusted with surveying the flooded areas and recording the numbers of people who have a right to compensation for homes and crops they lost when flash floods hit Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
this summer.

The provincial governments plan to hand out compensation once the final list arrives. In the meantime, many hit by the floods have yet to receive basic relief goods -- in the form of food packs, tents, blankets and so on.

"We still need an additional 50,000-70,000 tents before I can safely say that the needs of those affected has been met. Around 150,000-170,000 families needed shelter," says Mir Changez Khan Jamali, Member of the National Assembly (MNA), on behalf of the Pakistain People's Party (PPP) for NA-266, Nasirabad, Balochistan.

"We are hoping to hand out Watan Cards by January. That should give the victims Rs 10,000 to Rs 20,000," says Jamali.

The numbers from Sindh paint a similar picture -- 420,000 houses were damaged while NDMA has no numbers available for how many people were displaced from these houses.

All that is known is that 141,843 families are living in relief camps while for the rest, the government has provided only 14,000 tents. Many more may have gotten tents from the NGOs but few numbers are available. This provides a partial but tragic picture of the compensation provided.In other words, either the government has relied on NGOs to provide 75 per cent of the shelter needed for the homes that were partially or fully damaged, or there are still a significant number of Sindh's displaced flood victims who did not receive assistance to provide a shelter to their families.
Posted by:Fred

#3  ...and subsidizing their terrorist front men in Kashmir.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2012-12-08 09:13  

#2  No money or time for tentage and victuals. The PAK gov't priority must go to perfecting their nuclear arsenal.
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-12-08 06:07  

#1  Same story for 'Hurricane' Sandy.
Posted by: Glenmore   2012-12-08 06:00  

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