KARACHI, Oct 13: The Pakistan Peoples Party has sent 88 truckloads of relief goods to the earthquake-hit areas in Northern Pakistan and Azad Kashmir, as party Chairperson Ms Benazir Bhutto attended a mourning prayer in Dubai for the quake victims.
The relief truckloads of supplies for earthquake victims have been despatched by the PPP relief teams to Muzaffarabad, Bagh, Balakot, Batagram, Baffa, Makoi and Tiba Mohri during the last two days.
The relief goods included essential food supplies, drugs, blankets, clothing, and other essentials of life.
Under directions from the party chairperson, special truckloads of essential supplies were also despatched from her hometown in Larkana to the quake affected areas. One consignment has already left Larkana while another one would be sent on Friday.
A special congregation was held to praying for the souls of the quake victims at the Shaikh Zaid Colony mosque in Larkana.
Provincial PPP presidents are supervising the relief efforts. Party presidents of Lahore and Karachi have transported relief goods to the capital for further upcountry distribution.
The Islamabad PPP was the first to collect goods and, in coordination with provincial party president of the NWFP, sent them to villages beyond Mansehra.
The Islamabad PPP relief goods reached the affected areas in less than 24 hours after the earthquake struck on Oct 8.
According to the PPP media cell at Bilawal House, President AJK PPP Sahibzada Ishaq Zafar has lost eleven members of his family and his house has fallen apart. He survived because he was in Islamabad.
Meanwhile donations continue to pour into the PPP relief fund set by the party chairperson for the relief and rehabilitation of quake affected people.
The chairperson had asked Pakistanis living in Dubai and all over the world to donate generously to the PPP relief fund.
