Punjab Chief Minister’s Adviser on Information Omar Sarfaraz Cheema has said the Taunsa Town has been protected due to timely measures taken by the Punjab government.
Talking to the media here after visiting the PDMA Control Room, he said that excellent rescue and relief measures had been taken to cope with the dangers of flood.
The people were protesting ver the inflated electricity and fuel prices in Punjab, but no protest was made by the people over floods in Punjab, he said.
He alleged that “the incompetent and an ineffcient federal government” came to realise about the flood situation after one month.
The country had been facing flood calamity since August 1, but where was the federal government all that time, he asked and alleged that they had been enjoying “luxuries on foreign trips” at that time.
The Speaker of the National Assembly, Raja Pervez Ashraf, had been on a foreign tour even now, he said. Cheema claimed that when “we made them feel ashamed through the media” then they began to worry about the flood victims.
The federal government was indulging in some propaganda so as to create a sensation regarding the floods. He said that the media should rely on factual information about the flood situation before they aired their news items.
The adviser vowed that the provincial government would not leave the people alone. “We are standing with the flood victims until their complete rehabilitation,” said the minister. He said that Imran Khan, along with the chief ministers of Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, was going to hold a telethon for fundraising.
He said that all the resources would be utilised for the rehabilitation of flood victims. The federal government scrambled to deal with the flood situation in the last two days only whereas the Punjab government had been continuously working to provide relief to the flood victims for the last one month.
The Punjab chief minister had constituted a cabinet committee which was lending help to the government after ascertaining the losses. He said that “our brothers and sisters are in dire straits, but sensationalising he matter could aggravate the people’s problems as well that of the government’s”, adding that conditions were now moving towards normality.
The minister said that the PDMA was monitoring the flood situation round the clock. He said that Imran Khan had laid the foundation of building 10 new dams in the country.
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