Helping IDPs: PM Nawaz announces Rs20,000 Ramazan package for each family

PM says IDPs will return to their homes in peace very soon and their houses will be rebuilt as well.

BANNU:
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif announced a Ramazan package worth Rs20,000 for each family of internally displaced persons (IDPs) on Friday.

The prime minister made the announcement while addressing the IDPs in Bannu. The Ramazan package is in addition to the earlier announced monthly allowance of Rs20,000 which includes Rs5,000 for non-food items and Rs3,000 for rent.


Earlier this morning, the premier arrived in Bannu in a helicopter to visit the camps and was received by Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif. Nawaz was accompanied by Information Minister Pervaiz Rashid, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Chief Minister Pervez Khattak, K-P Governor Sardar Mehtab Abbasi and Ministry of States and Frontier Regions (SAFRON) Minister Lieutenant General (retd) Abdul Qadir Baloch.

Speaking to the IDPs, the prime minister remarked that helping the IDPs was the government's responsibility and not a favour.

Nawaz said that his government will spend as much as money as required.


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"We are working day and night to solve your problems and we will not leave you in these difficult times," the premier stated, empathising with the IDPs.

Nawaz told the IDPs that they will return to their homes in peace very soon and their houses will be rebuilt as well.

The premier remarked that he understands how the IDPs are feeling, further stating that he knows it is not easy to leave one's home.

Before addressing the IDPs, Nawaz had a meeting with the people who accompanied him to discuss the situation of the displaced people.
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