Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) chief Sirajul Haq said on Friday the government had failed to protect people from floods.
He was talking to the media during his visit to camps set up by the JI and Al-Khidmat Foundation at Chauburji Chowk to collect relief items for flood-hit people.
Haq said governments had done nothing to deal with floods. He also raised questions about the National Disaster Management Authority’s performance.
“India has once again released floodwater into Pakistan. Islamabad, on the other hand, imports onions and potatoes from India and exchange cultural troupes with the neighbouring country,” he said.
“No Pakistani buys the idea that India is our friend. The government must approach the UN and move the International Court of Justice against this water aggression by India.”
Haq said instead of giving away monetary compensation, coffin and clothes to people, the government should take steps to protect them from such calamities.
The JI chief appealed to the nation to show the spirit of solidarity seen in the 1965 war for helping the flood victims. He said he hoped that Lahoris would rise to the occasion.
He said the refusal of the Punjab government to take help from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to provide relief to flood victims was sad.
“The offer was a gesture of goodwill from one province to the other,” he said.
JI Lahore chief Mian Maqsood Ahmed briefed Haq about steps taken to help flood-affected people.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 13th, 2014.
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