PESHAWAR, Oct 17: Peshawar University Teachers Association has so far sent relief goods worth Rs10.5 million to the earthquake-hit areas of the province. This was stated by Dr Hameed Jan, president of the Peshawar University Teachers’ Association (Puta), at a press briefing on Monday. Vice-chancellor Mumtaz Gul was also present on the occasion.

Dr Jan said that Puta had sent relief items in 20 buses to the worst hit areas and was collecting more stuff for the affected people.

They were also carrying out fund-raising campaign to help the marooned people, he said. The response of the people was wonderful and they had taken part in the campaign whole heartedly.

Dr Jan said they had sent quilts, blankets, leather jackets, packets of food items and large quantity of clothes, shrouds, milk packs, dates and medicines to Battagram, Balakot, Shangla, Allai and other affected areas.

All the items had been sent from the university where the volunteers were working under the supervision of Puta’s secretary Arbab Khan Afridi.

University relief operation team, which was based in Balakot, also visited quake-hit areas in NWFP and Azad Kashmir and sent relief goods to the victims, he said. They had set up base camp in Balakot, where volunteer students were engaged in digging graves for the dead.

He said that the university was specially focusing on goods and medicines for the earthquake victims.

They are installing camps in new areas to collect more and more funds outside the campus, he said, adding that the relief activities would continue for next few days in the campus.