Cross-border floods: AJK premier offers to send aid

Says India carrying out selective <br /> relief activities.

MUZAFFARABAD: The Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) prime minister, Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdur Rashid Turabi and local leaders of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) have offered more than Rs10 billion of AJK’s development budget for the rehabilitation of flood victims of Indian Kashmir.

Addressing a press conference on Tuesday, AJK Prime Minister Abdul Majeed said the situation in the ‘occupied’ valley which was hit by flash flood is severe and in these difficult times, we want to send relief goods to Srinagar and other flood-hit areas of Jammu.



“India is distributing relief goods and rescuing non-local Hindus and is ignoring the stranded Kashmiris who are without food and clean drinking water for the last week which is unfortunate,” said the premier.

While sharing details of the damage and destruction in Indian Kashmir, Majeed said more than two million people were affected by the natural calamity and nearly one million Kashmiris were made homeless, around 400,000 residents of Srinagar city among them.

He said the damage in Srinagar is more than that occurred in the 2005 earthquake and on this occasion the world community and the govt of Pakistan should help us send relief goods to Srinagar.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 18^th, 2014.