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| October 11, 2005 | Tuesday | Ramzan 6, 1426 |
PPP donates Rs5m
ISLAMABAD, Oct 10: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairperson Benazir Bhutto has announced a donation of Rs5 million on behalf of her party for the quake-affected people. Under her direction, the party has set up a relief fund for the rehabilitation of the quake-affected people. In this regard, an account has been opened in Bank Al Falah in the name of the PPP Relief Fund and donations can be made into any branch of the Al Falah Bank in Pakistan in account 0035-01014063.
Ms Bhutto has made appealed to the nation to donate generously to the PPP Relief Fund. She also directed the PPP cadres to establish relief camps to collect goods, medicines and also donate blood for the victims.
Donations can also be made in the form of bank drafts and cheques payable to PPP Relief Fund and sent to the secretary- general at the PPP Central Secretariat, G-6/4, Islamabad.
Further details for contributing funds can be obtained from the party’s Islamabad media office. The contact numbers are: 92- 51-2202837. Fax 92-51-2202835. The email address is drkhshan@comsats.net.pk
RABBANI: Leader of Opposition in the Senate and Deputy Secretary-General of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Mian Raza Rabbani on Monday said the nation was facing the consequences of perhaps one of the gravest natural calamities in the history of Pakistan.
“This is an hour of national grief and the nation stands united in the face of devastation. It is at such moments in the history that the mettle of the nations is tested, particularly when as in our case the inadequacies of the system and the inherent weaknesses in crisis management have been exposed.”
“The chairperson, Ms Bhutto, has directed high mobilization of the party at all levels and directed that relief camps be immediately set up throughout the country at the district level. A number of such camps have already started to function. “The civil society must rise to the occasion and fill the gap that has been created by the failure of the system.”
Meanwhile, Naheed Khan, political secretary to the PPP chairperson, Benazir Bhutto, has criticized the Peshawar Corps Commander’s assertion that only 1,000 people had perished in the quake and the figures given by the media were simply exaggeration.
In a statement, she said the corps commander’s statement reflected his insensitivity because the people were facing the worst kind of catastrophe in the history of the country.
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