QUETTA, Oct 10: The Balochistan Assembly on Monday unanimously adopted a resolution expressing deep sorrow over loss of thousands of lives in Saturday’s earthquake and demanded that the federal government should provide medical facilities and financial support to the victims and take steps for their rehabilitation.

Speaker Jamal Shah Kakar deferred the day’s agenda till the house’s next sitting on Thursday with the consent of the assembly’s members to express solidarity with the victims.

The opposition members termed the government steps to provide food, tents and blankets to affected people in the disaster-hit areas of Azad Kashmir, the NWFP, the Northern Areas and Islamabad inadequate.

The speaker said members of the house had donated their one-month salary to the victims, while the revenue minister said Rs10 million would be given from the relief fund and the cabinet members would contribute an additional one-month salary in this regard. A committee comprising parliamentary leaders of the groups in the house was formed to supervise the relief funds.