QUETTA, July 7: The Jamaat-ud-Dawa has claimed that the organisation was providing food and medicines to around fifty thousand families stranded in the flood-hit areas of Turbat, Gwadar, Pasni, Dasht, Nushki and Kharan.

Speaking at a press conference here on Saturday, Dawa’s Nizam Hafiz Abdul Rauf announced that 43 doctors and paramedics from Karachi, Lahore and Faisalabad were on way to establish camps, while medicines worth one million rupees and six ambulances had already been sent to the affected areas.

Meanwhile, the Jamiat al-Hadith Pakistan has announced that it would spend Rs300 million on rehabilitating flood-hit people and rebuilding houses, mosques and madressahs.

Speaking at a press conference on Saturday, the organisation’s provincial amir Ali Mohammad Abu-Turab claimed that relief goods worth Rs3 million were distributed among two thousand families in Kharan, Turbat, Buledi and other areas of Makran coast.