LAHORE: Jamaat-i-Islami emir Sirajul Haq alleges the government has miserably failed to protect the masses from floods.

He visited on Friday the relief camps set up by the JI and the Al-Khidmat Foundation at Chauburji Chowk for the flood-hit people. He said the country had been hit by floods for the last many years causing huge losses of life and property. However, none of the government had made adequate arrangements to protect the masses.

He also questioned the performance of the National Disaster Management Authority.

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The JI chief said India had again committed water aggression against the country but the rulers in Islamabad were importing onions and potatoes and exchanging cultural troupes to create an impression that New Delhi was a friendly country.

"No honorable Pakistani will buy the idea that India is a friend," he said, and added that the government must approach the UN and the International Court of Justice on the water aggression.

Mr Haq said the government's duty was not merely to give away relief cheques, arrange coffin clothes and offer condolences after deaths. "The government is supposed to keep the masses informed of the expected dangers and make preventive measures against calamities."

He said the Punjab government's refusal to accept help from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government was not good because the offer was a gesture of goodwill and brotherhood from one province to the other.

Published in Dawn, September 13th, 2014