ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday took notice of drought in Sindh's Thar area and asked the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) to file a report in this regard. Prime Minister Nawaz also advised the armed forces to supply food and medicines to the drought-affected areas.
More than 1,000 people, including children and women, have died in Thar due to the famine.
Earlier, a relief inspecting judge for Tharparkar, Mian Fayyaz Rabbani, had urged the government to pay attention to the ‘alarming situation’ in this district as the aggravating drought may claim more human lives.
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Speaking to reporters during his visit to the Mithi Civil Hospital, Rabbani observed that thousands of people were starving while relief goods meant for them were being misappropriated on a large scale. he also said that the entire district lacked adequate healthcare facilities.
The relief judge said he had brought to the notice of the relevant authorities the misappropriation of relief goods worth millions of rupees and identified the culprits but no attention had been paid to the issue.
The officials caught red-handed and suspended was reinstated at the Mithi warehouse of relief goods, he had regretted.
