Rs3m package for Kocha Risaldar blast victims

Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Chief Minister Mahmood Khan has approved an enhanced compensation package of Rs3 million per head for the victims of Kocha Risaldar suicide attack on Wednesday.

Provincial cabinet on Tuesday approved Rs2 million compensation package in its 67th meeting but a delegation of Imamia Jirga led by Sartaj Qazalbash met him and demanded an enhanced package on which the CM announced Rs3 million compensation for those who lost their lives in the suicide attack on March 4.

Addressing a press conference in Peshawar Special Assistant to CM on Information Barrister Muhammad Ali Saif said that free education will be provided to the children of the victims in addition to government jobs. He said that the deputy commissioner Peshawar and he himself had been nominated focal person in this regard.

“We visited the hospital and met the injured of the blast. We visited the site of the attack. A delegation of Imamia Jirga met the CM,” he said, adding that after every terrorism attack government announces shaheed package for the victims and the K-P cabinet increased the amount from Rs5 lakhto Rs2 million but the CM has further increased it to Rs3 million.

“The CM has also announced to provide free education and government jobs to the children of the victims too,” he said.

He added that the attack was on Pakistani nation rather than any specific sect and those involved in the attack would be dealt with an iron hand.

He added that in a meeting with the Imamia Jirga, it was also decided that the families of government employees who were martyred in the Kucha Risaldar blast would continue to stay in government residences and their children would be provided every possible support to get the job opportunities according to their qualifications.

The special assistant was accompanied by the head of Imamia Jirga Sartaj Qazalbash and other Shia elders at the press conference.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 17^th, 2022.