PTI chastises Punjab govt for lack of flood warning

PTI calls on Punjab government to immediately start relief operations in affected areas.


Ppi September 10, 2012

PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Monday strongly condemned the mismanagement and lack of precautionary measures taken by the government as heavy rains wreaked havoc in the country.

Floods in Southern Punjab, specifically in Dera Ghazi Khan, Rajanpur and Tonsa Shareef have left thousands of families displaced. At least 78 rain and flood related deaths have also been reported from across the country.

PTI in a statement criticised the Punjab government for not issuing a flood warning to the people who were caught off guard as water entered their homes in the middle of the night. The statement lamented that monsoon rains come around the same time every year and that Rs6 billion funds have been allocated for the purpose, in what was another display of inefficiency by the Shahbaz Sharif led Punjab government.

The statement further criticised the Punjab administration for not initiating a search operation yet, adding that the government should immediately start relief operations in the affected areas.

They also said that the Pakistan Meteorological Department (Met) had issued warnings that rains may lead to floods, but the government had not paid any heed to contingency measures.

Imran Khan’s party also saw the intervention of the armed forces to tackle the crisis as sheer inefficiency of the Punjab government when it came to dealing with natural disasters.

The head of PTI Imran Khan expressed his condolences with the families who were affected by the heavy rains. He said that he stood by them in this hour of hardship.

COMMENTS (10)

Iram | 11 years ago | Reply

CM spending billions (tax payers money) on self and party projection and to support a media group. These ads may be stopped for some times and amount should be used for flood victims.

Ajmal Nasir | 11 years ago | Reply

How many more floods will wake them up? Mismanagement from top to bottom. It is role of opposition to criticize when things are not heeded. Is it a rocket science to develop mechanism to respond and train government employees to tackle situation. With historical trend, it will happen again. It is our right to criticize government who is not putting its act together.

And every thing is not responsibility of federal government. Provincial government is there to embezzle money only.

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