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PM formed special committee on relief efforts for Rohingya Muslims: Nisar

Special committee will meet in Islamabad tomorrow

Web Desk June 06, 2015

PHOTO: AFP

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif constituted on Saturday a special committee to provide relief to Rohingya Muslims.

“PM Nawaz has constituted a special committee to provide relief to Rohingya Muslims and a meeting of the special committee will be held in Islamabad tomorrow,” Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar said, according to Radio Pakistan.

The committee includes Nisar, Adviser to Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz and Adviser to the Prime Minister Tariq Fatemi to suggest measures and relief efforts from Pakistan for the Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar. The committee will meet on Sunday.

Nisar said that the premier and federal ministers had expressed their concerns over the plight of Rohingya Muslims during a cabinet meeting.

Read: Civil society urges world to save Myanmar Muslims

Further, Nisar called upon international organisations to take notice of genocide of Rohingya Muslims.

“The silence of United Nations, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and other world bodies over the massacre of Muslims in Rohingya has raised many questions,” the interior minister said.

Myanmar does not recognise its 1.1 million-strong Rohingya community as citizens, rendering them effectively stateless. Many have fled the apartheid-like conditions of the country’s Rakhine state. Thousands of Rohingyas have fled persecution in boats to seek refuge in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand.

Earlier, this week Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman Imran Khan in a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said the ‘shameful’ UN silence on the issue is a testament to its failure to fulfill the basic principles of upholding human rights, says the letter.

Read: UN silence on Rohingya genocide shameful, says Imran

Further, US President Barack Obama has called upon Yangon to treat the Rohingyas as citizens to solve the root cause of the migrant crisis in Southeast Asia.

Meanwhile, Chairman Bahria Town, Malik Riaz announced a sum of Rs100 million aimed at providing relief to the troubled Rohingya Muslim community in Burma.

COMMENTS (22)

Bairooni Haath | 9 years ago | Reply No relief for Pakistani Muslims living in Bangladesh refugee camps since 1971. They are people who Pakistan can actually do something for and is also obliged to do. I guess empty slogans for Rohingtya is easier.

Motiwala | 9 years ago | Reply @Milind: Bharatis should not be worried about Rohingyas. Bharat has bigger problems. Giant problems. Starting with the savage reign of terror in Arunachal Pradesh. The massacres in Mizoram, Imphal. Burning Muslim villages in Kohima. The killing sprees in Nagaland, Bodoland are beyond description. Nope. Bharat has huge problems.

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the Skunk | 9 years ago | Reply Where is the Nobel prize winner and darling of the West.......Aung San Suu Kyi??? Forget the world organizations, where is the OIC? What is the plan of the OIC to give succor to the Rohingya Muslims? NOTHING!!! The Muslim countries are unable to settle their differences, what can they do to help the aggrieved? The only thing that comes to mind is to bring unsurpassed IMMENSE PRESSURE upon the Myanmar government and provide economic aid. Salams

Sahil | 9 years ago | Reply @G123: Why Saudi Arabi?? and why not Pakistan?? Pakistan was created for Muslims and in the name of Islam. Our muslim rulers are busy in their islamic activities they dont find time to look into this serious matter. What about pakistanis in Bengladesh who still await to return their country.

observer | 9 years ago | Reply Pakistan, as the self-proclaimed leader of the Muslim Ummah should offer all the Rohingya Muslims asylum instead of paying hypocritical and empty statements.

NuCharity! | 9 years ago | Reply As much as it's heart breaking to see human suffering. We can only send or ask for help from others for Rohingyas. Under the Current State of Domestic affairs we shouldn't even bring a pet in the house. We can't provide peace, food, shelter, fuel or job to even locals. Our IDPs, years after the flood & the earth quake are still homeless & the citizen of metropolis are scrambling for water & power. What shape are we in to add more to the misery? I know the persecuted Rohangya nation is ripe as "ideal starting point" to be injected into a dying economy where ambitious hard workers are needed for kick start. The West has always utilized this factor through new immigration to change the landscape of, an otherwise dying economy. I bet there are still lot of places in West and Russia where they can make a difference. Where nationalism has not reached "Hatred for All Others", Where Oil wealth and Land share is not main issues. Where the immigrants can provide a safe environment of their kids for learning & education. "Charity" these days means; Providing long-term sustenance, not only a sack of Rice or Cooking oil, Stove, Bed sheets and Vaccination.

Lord | 9 years ago | Reply Appreciate this humanity gesture. Help them in a way that they become self reliant rather than just giving them aid for some time and wait for the heat of the moment to subside. Irony is Pakistan's minority are facing similar fate but people only sympathize for the oppressed in case of similarities between victims and them otherwise they don't give a damn.

goggi (Lahore) | 9 years ago | Reply Hundreds of thousands Pakistani citizens have fled the oppression and atrocities of their own society and got asylum in human-secular western countries. Pakistan´s Muslim society treat non-Muslims fellow countrymen as Subhumans.

Hammad | 9 years ago | Reply Good gesture by Mr. Nawaz, however Pakistan needs more Imran Khans and Malik Riaz for a better world.. . . I salute Mr. Malik Riaz for always coming up serving a social cause solely by himself without peeting dhandora. Great News!!

Milind | 9 years ago | Reply Pakistanis like the house of Bourbons refuse to forget & learn anything from history... With the Afghan refugee fiasco still under discussion, they're taking more deadload just because its Muslim...

powvow | 9 years ago | Reply Surprising that Pakistanis refuse to accept their own from Bangladesh, but shed crocodile tears for some terrorists...

Vijaykumar Padiyachi | 9 years ago | Reply Good gesture ...but better you use your resources to save Ahemdis and Shias of your country

Prada | 9 years ago | Reply @Afzal: Same thoughts for Yazidis under Islamic State persecution? Maybe not.

Ch. Allah Daad | 9 years ago | Reply @Afzal: Pakistan has already given 3 million Afghans and hundreds of thousands of Bengalis, Beharis, Vietnamese, Chinese and other nations but what Pakistan got from these nations in return is hate and blames. In present circumstances Pakistan should be the last country to give physical support to minority of any other country. Why? because sooner or later, this crises will turn into armed struggle which would be blamed solely on Pakistan.

Gopeet | 9 years ago | Reply Nawaz is a billionaire, many times over. US dollars. He can spare 15-20 million dollars easily, from his pocket. Ask his Godfather, King Salman of Saudia to spare a billlion or two, to help these Rohingya Muslims. Then there is the Sultan of Brunei, who is a firm believer in Sharia Law. Sharia says help Muslims, does it not?

vinsin | 9 years ago | Reply They belong to Bangladesh and Bangladesh should accept them.

Hassan | 9 years ago | Reply When Muslims are busy in fighting with each other on race, caste, ethnicity and sect the result would be the same as we are seeing with what is happening with Rohingya Muslims. The time is still in hands for all muslim countries to sit together and resolve issues and disputes and jointly work for the betterment of oppressed and needy muslims. The protests and resolutions in assemblies could do nothing untill all work practically.

G123 | 9 years ago | Reply Saudi Arabia should give them citizenship as they are citidal of Islam, funny that wont even give it for their Pakistani bothers , i wonders whats wrong with Muslim ummah hypocrisy at the best.

M.Hussain Azmi | 9 years ago | Reply We appreciate you and thank you very much for raising voice and focusing the serious issue of the helpless, homeless, powerless, defenseless Rohingya community whose are facing genocide and forced migration in Arakan State by the barbaric Buddhist Burmese criminal regime and their allies the terrorist organ RNDP, ALP, ALA and the terrorist group 969 terrorist Monk Wirathu much more. For more information please visit online news : www.burmatimes.net M.Hussain Azmi Frankfurt Germany

Mohammad Islam | 9 years ago | Reply I would like to heartfelt thanks His Excellency Prime minister Nawaz Sharif & the peace loving peoples of Islamic Republic of Pakistan for supporting the persecuted Rohingya Muslims. We whole Rohingyas love Pakistan from the core of our hearts but not today for many decades. We are whole Rohingya peoples are appealing to Honorable Prime minister & leader of muslim Ummah Nawaz Sharif to help us to solve our decades old & longstanding Rohingya issue. We have been under various kinds of persecutions, discrimination, oppression, harassments, tortures, deprivation of basic & Human Rights etcs for decade under Myanmar's administration Arakan state. We need help & cooperation from the government, brothers & sisters of Islamic Republic of Pakistan. We have nobody to hear our suffering. We hope the government & the peoples of Pakistan will not forget & maroon us. Pakistan Zindabad!!!!. Millions of thanks to Pakistan

Afzal | 9 years ago | Reply What other images we need to see to allow our hearts to soften on this disaster. Can not all Muslim countries get together and have them settled on their territories? One wishes they could.

just_someone | 9 years ago | Reply Again, IK says and things move. Maybe if IK wasnt constantly giving speeches and complaining (a term some would use), this government would probably not do anything, ever!

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