PPP leaders spend Aug 14 with IDPs in Bannu

Pakistan People Party Peshawar Leaders Syed Zahir Ali Shah, Zulfiqar Afghani and Salman orakzai spend 14th august Independence Day with IDPS in Bannu

The Pakistan People’s Party on Thursday sent its leaders to Bannu to celebrate the Independence Day with the internally displaced people from North Waziristan Agency.

Former PPP provincial president Zahir Ali Shah, who is the party’s focal person in the province to oversee relief and charity work for IDPs, visited field hospitals in Bannu and distributed sweets among displaced persons.

In a statement issued here, Zahir Ali Shah said on the instructions of the party leadership, he had visited displaced persons in schools in Bannu and got installed pressure pumps there at their request to ensure water supply to them.

He said he had tasked party activist Zahir Shah Toru with overseeing relief activities for IDPs in Bannu.

Currently, PPP MNA Khursheed Shah heads the party’s committee overseeing for relief work.

Zulfiqar said the committee had ordered the provision of 600 pedestal fans to a supplier.

He said fans would be distributed among IDPs during a function where Khursheed Shah and Zamarud Khan would be the chief guests.

The PPP leader said the committee had arranged the Benazir Dastarkhwan on the first Eid day and provided food to 2,000 IDPs at Mashar Daud Shah Masjid, the main mosque of Bannu.

He said the party had set up six-bed field hospitals, which were fully equipped and manned by doctors and paramedics. Zulfiqar said the field hospitals provided free medicines to all IDPs, including women and children.

“Each filed hospital has a full-time ambulance. These field hospitals will be working there till the end of the military operation in North Waziristan and will be relocated to the tribal region after repatriation of tribesmen,” he said.

He said the committee had so far spent Rs8 million on relief work.

The PPP leader said the Bannu commissioner had sought Rs30 million to repair 25 tubewells for IDPs but the party managed to do the repairs for a small amount of money.