LAHORE, Feb 12: Expressing his grief over recent casualties in rains and floods in Balochistan and the NWFP provinces, Jamaat-i-Islami amir Qazi Husain Ahmad has set up a relief fund for the rehabilitation of victims.

A sum of Rs2.5 million has been donated for the fund by the Jamaat as philanthropists have been urged to donate more for the cause.

He has also directed his party workers to immediately start relief work in the affected areas. Karachi Nazim Nimatullah Khan has been asked to personally supervize the relief work in Balochistan province.

More than 100 people were killed and hundreds of others went missing after a water reservoir collapsed in Balochistan, while scores of people were affected due to heavy snowfall and rains in mountains of the NWFP province.