IDPs urge govt to provide relief package

Peshawar : The residents of tehsil Kabal and Thana, adjacent areas of district Swat, on Monday staged protest demonstration against non-provision of relief package so-far. Dozens of protesters were carrying banners and placards inscribed with slogans. They were also chanting full-throated slogans against the ANP-led provincial government and authorities concerned. The protesters were of the view that despite of the fact that everything had been destroyed in their areas by the militancy and the the military operation, the government has yet not provided them with any relief package. The protest rally led by an IDP Habib Khan who in his address said that for the last one month, the government had not provided any relief or any food item, adding that the real IDPs are being ignored during the distribution of packages and favoritism and nepotism had be done by the officials, for which the government machinery doe not take any action against the officials. He said that on the day of receiving relief package, when the IDPs go to the concerned offices, the officials send them back by making several excuses and also misbehave with the IDPs as if an IDP came for begging. He demanded of NWFP Chief Minister Amir Haider Khan and elected representatives of district Swat to resolve the issue and make the provision of relief package assured.