Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif says the government is taking steps for rehabilitation of the flood affectees in coordination with all the relevant departments.
He was addressing a ceremony after reviewing rehabilitation work of the flood-hit Saggu Bridge in Dera Ismail Khan on Wednesday. He said the government has increased the compensation amount from twenty-eight billion to seventy-billion rupees.
Shehbaz Sharif said so far, the government has transparently distributed twenty billion rupees through Benazir Income Support Program.
He said the government has also decided to give one million rupees to each bereaved family of the people who died due to flood.
The Prime Minister directed the authorities concerned to ensure rehabilitation and reconstruction of highways, bridges and other infrastructure across the province without any discrimination.
He said the devastating floods have greatly affected the standing crops of cotton, rice and dates in Sindh and Balochistan. He said the government will provide financial assistance to affected farmers.
The Prime Minister said no compromise will be made over the transparent distribution of the relief package. He emphasized on the construction of small dams in the country to combat the challenge of floods.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday paid tribute to the pilots of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) for rendering immense sacrifices in the 1965 war and defending the country’s aerial frontiers.
“The defenders of the country’s aerial frontiers always proved that any malice shown by the enemy would be thwarted effectively,” he said in a tweet on PAF Day.
Nation on September 7 observed the 57th Air Force Day across the country to pay homage to the martyrs of the PAF for sacrificing their lives in defence of the homeland. PM Sharif said Pakistanis were grateful to Squadron Leader Sarfraz Rafiqui, Flight Lieutenant Younas Hassan, Flying Officer Muhammad Afzal, Squadron Leader Muniruddin, and all martyrs of the PAF. “With their great sacrifices, these heroes crushed the nefarious designs of the four times bigger enemy,” he said.
