ISLAMABAD, July 7: Opposition members belonging to the Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy (ARD) have submitted an adjournment motion to the National Assembly Secretariat to discuss the flood situation in the country and the government’s policy to deal with such disasters. Talking to Dawn, ARD Parliamentary Secretary Izhar Amrohvi said the opposition members had also submitted a motion on the statement of a World Bank representative that six dams in Pakistan were about to collapse.
Mr Amrohvi said 13 PPP and the PML-N MNAs had filed a motion under Rule 92 of the Rules and Procedure for Conduct of Business in the National Assembly 1992 in which they held the federal government responsible for the losses caused by floods in the NWFP and Northern Areas.
The motion says: “The federal government failed to help and inform the general public about the heavy floods which affected the people in the NWFP.” It says relief work has not been started in the flood-hit areas even after the disaster.
“According to the fresh reports, the flood water is approaching GT Road and it is apprehended that it may pose a danger to Nowshera-Mardan bridge on River Kabul. The people of the area are looking towards the federal government for relief as the situation is out of the control of the provincial government,” it says.
Similarly, Mr Amrohvi said, 13 ARD members had signed a motion on the WB representative’s statement that six out of total 13 dams in Pakistan had become dangerous. He said the WB representative belonged to China had feared that these dams could collapse any time as they had completed their maximum age.
Mr Amrohvi said 12 opposition members had also moved a motion to discuss the issue of wheat shortage in the country.
The motions have been signed by Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan, Raja Pervez Ashraf, Sherry Rehman, Naheed Khan, Dr Fahmida Mirza, Mumtaz Matiana, Syed Naveed Qamar, Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Nayyar Bokhari, Syed Khurshid Shah, Khalid Iqbal Memon, Fauzia Wahab, Syed Zafar Ali Shah, Chaudhry Manzoor Ahmed, Fauzia Habib, Nawab Yousuf Talpur and Ghulam Murtaza Satti of the PPP and Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, Pervez Malik, Tehmina Daultana and Khwaja Saad Rafiq of the PML-N.