KARACHI: More firms contribute to quake relief efforts
By Our Reporter
KARACHI, Oct 31: More organizations have come out with contributions towards the national campaign for immediate and sustainable assistance to the relief and rehabilitation of the victims of the October 8 earthquake that devastated parts of Azad Kashmir and the NWFP and left thousands of people dead and injured.
The Hashoo Group has collectively contributed Rs10 million towards the president’s relief fund along with more than 50 trucks of relief goods. It has also sent 20 doctors and surgeons to the quake-hit areas.
In addition, employees of more than 30 firms working under the banner of Hashoo Group have contributed relief assistance in cash and kind.
The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) has offered a substantial assistance towards the rehabilitation of the affected people.
The Buturab Scouts Group has offered 25 mobile dispensaries to be dispatched to different areas of Azad Kashmir. At a news conference, the Group’s chairman, Syed Javed Raza Naqvi, said that each mobile dispensary would have 12 doctors, 10 paramedical staff and 12 scouts.
The Pakistan Chemists and Druggists Association has sent medicine worth Rs25 million to quake-stricken areas. Chairman of the association told a news conference that the association had dispatched medicines worth Rs12.5 million through the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, Mir Khalilur Rahman Foundation, Al-Mustafa Welfare Society and Sunni Tehrik. It has sent medicines worth Rs12.5 million to quake-hit areas on its own.
CARAVAN: An ‘Eid Caravan’ of over 300 workers of the Islami Jamiat Talaba (IJT) left the city for quake-hit areas of Azad Kashmir and NWFP along with Eid gifts, books, stationary and other articles worth Rs1.5 million for distribution among children, agencies add.
The caravan, which was seen off by former city nazim and relief coordinator of Al-Khidmat Welfare Society Niamatullah Khan, JI Karachi Amir Dr Mairajul Huda Siddiqui and MPA Nasarullah Shaji of MMA, boarded Allama Iqbal Express at the Cantonment Station on Monday. Nazim-i-Ala of the IJT Zubair Ahmed Gondal is leading the caravan.
The IJT workers will celebrate Eid with survivors, especially children, present them Eid gifts and cash aid besides performing their assigned voluntary duties at tent schools being set up there by the Jamiat.
Speaking on the occasion, Niamatullah Khan urged people of Sindh, especially Karachi, to patronize these schools where thousands of students would be imparted education till their schools were rebuilt and start functioning.
Mr Gondal said that hundreds more IJT workers would join in the caravan from other stations. He said that IJT planned to impart education to over 5,000 students in the quake-hit areas on voluntary basis.
Dr Siddiqui and MPA Shaji also spoke on the occasion.
SCOUTS: A six-member delegation of the All Private Schools Boy Scouts Association, District Karachi, left for quake-affected areas of Muzaffarabad, a statement said on Monday.
The delegation is carrying along with it relief supplies, including tents, woollen clothes and garments for children, to be distributed among survivors.
The delegation, led by the Secretary of the Association, Mohammad Ahmed Khan, would celebrate Eidul Fitr with the survivors.
