Flood-hit people suffer bitter cold under open sky

Farmers' body says PPP forcing people to vote party back into power if they wanted rehabilitation

HYDERABAD:

Sindh Hari Committee President Samar Haider Jatoi has deplored that hundreds of thousands of people who were left homeless during 2022 floods are still living under the open sky as the government's rehabilitation promises remain unfulfilled. "The affected people have been kept on fake promises that they will be given homes and financial support to restart their lives."

Jatoi mentioned, the people are living in makeshift tents even during such inclement and chilling winter season when it is hard to live in covered and heated homes. Jatoi criticised the Pakistan Peoples Party for trying to coerce Sindh people to vote the party back in power if they wanted completion of their rehabilitation plan. He asked the people to punish the PPP through their vote in the upcoming election for all the alleged plunder of their resources and the bad governance.

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The committee's president also accused the caretaker government for embezzling from the multi billion rupees funds which were meant to be spent on the extradition of the illegal immigrants, particularly Afghans. He demanded an impartial investigation over the expenditure of those funds.

Jatoi claimed that illegal immigrants were still present in large numbers in Karachi, Hyderabad and in other parts of Sindh. He alleged that the illegal immigrants from other provinces have been forced to leave the country but the situation in Sindh is different where the caretaker government has failed to implement the court order.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 6^th, 2024.