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SIALKOT, Oct 20: The Parliamentarian Doctors Forum (PDF) has announced construction of 200 houses in Muzaffarabad, Balakot, Rawalakot, Batgram, Abbottabad and Mansehra within two weeks.
PDF Chairperson Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan told the press here on Thursday that the forum had got NOCs from the Mansehra district government and the AJK and NWFP governments for this purpose.
She said a seven-member delegation of UK-based doctors, led by Dr Nadeem Naeem, had also joined the PDF medical camp in AJK for providing free of cost medical facilities to the victims.
Dr Firdous Ashiq said PDF had been established in the wake of the US invasion on Iraq and providing free medical facilities to the Iraqi people.
80 TRUCKS: The army on Thursday dispatched 80 trucks containing relief goods worth Rs5 million to the entire quake-stricken areas.
Talking to the press at Garrison Park, Sialkot Cantt, Garrison Commander Maj-Gen Ashraf Saleem said people had so far donated relief goods weighing 267 tons.
Replying to a question, the Sialkot GOC claimed that the army rescue and relief teams had reached almost all quake-hit areas.
He said the business community was bearing expenditure of all the injured people admitted to the CMH.
He said the Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) had established a free medical camp in Muzaffarabad and donated Rs22 million in cash and the relief goods worth millions of rupees.
He said gloves manufacturers had donated 5,000 pairs of working gloves for removing debris, besides a big consignment of leather and parachute jackets.
EDUCATION PROJECTS: Development work on 309 different education projects is going at a good pace and will be completed till February 2006 at a cost of Rs361 million.
Around 85 per cent work has already been completed under the Punjab Chief Minister’s Education Sector Reforms Programme.
This was stated by Sialkot EDO (Finance and Planning) Rana Azhar Ai at a meeting here on Thursday. Sialkot District Nazim Muhammad Akmal Cheema presided over the meeting.
