Sindh govt will not leave people helpless in difficult time: CM Murad

THATTA: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah Saturday said all resources are being used to provide rain affected people all kinds of relief, including supplies of food, clean drinking water, tents, mosquito nets, health, to save them from hardship.
Talking to media persons, the Chief Minister said that on the special instructions of PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Sindh government is working to rescue the rain-affected people. He said that including me, all cabinet ministers, MPAs, MNAs, District Administration and officers of all relevant departments are with the people in the current situation and are always working to help them in every way. He said that Pakistan People’s Party is aware of its people, they will not be left helpless under any circumstances and will leave no stone unturned in providing all the facilities including all possible help. On this occasion, Provincial Ministers Syed Nasir Shah, Rasool Bakhsh Chandio, Mukesh Kumar Chawla, Special Assistants Sadiq Ali Memon and Riyaz Hussain Shah Shirazi, PPP leaders Ashiq Hussain Zardari, Abdul Hameed Panhwar, Ghulam Qadir Palijo, Mehmood Alam Shah, Imtiaz Qureshi, Divisional Commissioner Nadeem Rehman Memon, DIG Syed Pir Muhammad Shah, Deputy Commissioner Ghazanfar Ali Qadri, SSP Adeel Hussain Chandio and other officers of all concerned departments were also present. Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah said that the entire country, including Sindh province from Karachi to Kashmore, has received 500% more rain this time, efforts are taking on to declare Sindh province as a disaster. The purpose of visit is to reach the areas and listen to the problems of the rain affected people and solve them, he added. Chief Minister said that even during the last flood of 2010, all facilities were provided by the PPP government on the instructions of Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari, including the issuance of Watan cards for the financial assistance of the people, while still the damages and destroy the houses, crops including cattle are being collected to ensure financial assistance to the victims by including them in Benazir Income Support Program along with early recovery of their losses. -NNI