PESHAWAR Nov 1: The Pakistan People’s Party has advised its workers to spand Eid with quake victims and provide them food and relief goods. The party’s provincial president Rahimdad Khan said in a statement on Monday that he himself would celebrate Eid in quake-hit areas.

He said it was not only a way to express solidarity but also to tell than that the PPP would not leave them alone in the hour of need. The PPP, he said, would continue its relief work during Eid days.

The PPP has set up relief camps in all districts of the province. Its base-camp at Balakot had been supplying food to the people of remote villages around Balakot.

Mr Khan said PPPP leaders Makhdoom Amin Fahim, Raja Ashraf Pervez and others also visited the party’s relief camp in Mansehra and toured devastated towns of Balakot, Battagaram and Garhi Habibullah. They assured all-out support to the victim families. He said PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto had asked the party office-bears to set aside politics and work for the welfare of the needy people.

Mr Khan said People’s Foundation, a welfare wing of the party set up some six months ago on the directives of party chairperson, had been involved in the relief and rescue efforts. The foundation will distribute Eid gifts among the quake-victims, he added.