CHITRAL: Terming the government’s efforts to rehabilitate the earthquake-hit people as lacklustere, the Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly, Syed Khursheed Shah, on Tuesday threatened to launch a protest campaign if sufficient relief was not extended to the calamity-affected dwellers of the district. “The PML-N should have intensified the rehabilitation activities ahead of crippling winter,” the PPP leader told a gathering here. He lamented the government’s failure to address the problems of the earthquake affected people despite repeated reminders by the opposition.Khursheed Shah said the opposition wanted the government to launch relief and rehabilitation activities, adding that the opposition would be forced to launch a protest campaign if the government ignored them. He said the prime minister had been informed that the Sindh government would provide 10,000 bags of flour, three generators of 250 kilowatt power and subsidised wheat seeds. The PPP leader said that his party’s government had launched work on the Lowari Tunnel project to connect the mountainous district with the rest of the country throughout the year. Khursheed Shah and Qamar Zaman Kaira assured the people that they would discuss their problems on the floor of the assembly. Elected representatives, including District Nazim Maghfirat Shah, presented demands of the people, including compensation to the affected people, opening of the Lowari Tunnel for maximum duration for the general public and provision of subsidised seeds to farmers.
