QUETTA, Nov 9: A special train with 120 bogies carrying relief goods donated by the Punjab chapter of Pakistan Muslim League-N for people affected by the recent earthquake in Ziarat and Pishin will arrive here on Monday.

Chief of the PML-N, Balochistan, Sardar Yaqoob Khan Nasar, said at a press conference on Sunday that the goods collected on an appeal by Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif would be distributed among the affected people by workers of his party.

He said his party had not received a positive response from the government to its offer that it could distribute the goods if it arranged their transportation from the Quetta railway station to the affected areas.

He said the affected people in Ziarat were the questioning government’s claim that 18,000 tents had been distributed among them.

He alleged that the government had ignored the affected people in Pishin.

He thanked the railway administration for allowing the party to keep the relief goods in the coaches till their distribution.