MPA seeks special package for quake-hit Chitral

PESHAWAR: Member Provincial Assembly (MPA) from Chitral Syed Sardar Hussain on Tuesday asked the government to announce a special financial package for the flood and earthquake affectees.
Speaking at a press conference at the Peshawar Press Club, Sardar Hussain, who belongs to Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), said that hundreds of thousands of people were affected by the floods and the earthquake.
He said the earthquake has destroyed hundreds of houses and affected 70 percent of the population in the far-off mountainous district.The legislator said the flood water and earthquake destroyed the roads and other communication in the district. He said the residents, including women and children, were forced to spendnights under the open sky in harsh winter. He said more than 45 persons have been killed by the recent earthquake in the district. He demanded the government to provide tents, blankets and relief food items to the affected families to enable them to cope with the snowfall and chilly weather.
The MPA also asked the government to send medicines and relief items through helicopters to the district and reopen the Lowari Tunnel for traffic.