LAKKI MARWAT: PPP local leaders have asked the party leadership to provide relief items to the internally displaced families of North Waziristan Agency settled in the district.

Talking to journalists here on Sunday, former district deputy general secretary Haji Isamgul said that thousands of tribal people migrated to the district when army launched action against miscreants in NWA. He said that almost all the displaced families were accommodated in the government schools or in rented houses.

Mr Gul said the government, humanitarian organisations and political parties extended assistance to the affected families, but Pakistan People's Party only focused on IDPs settled in Bannu district.

Din Mohammad, former PPP tehsil senior vice president, said the party had established hospitals for IDPs, extended funds for repair and rehabilitation of broken tube-wells and provided food and non food items to the displaced families in Bannu.

Former PPP Lakki city general secretary Ihsanullah demanded of the party chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari and provincial president Khanzada Khan to provide funds for repair of tube-wells and provision of medicines in local hospitals to facilitate the people, including IDPs.

Published in Dawn, Aug 11th, 2014