Pakistan Flooding News

LONDON, (SANA): Former Prime Minister and Pakistan Muslim League-N Chief Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif has said that Pakistan does not need aid for the flood affectees from the West rather it should stand on its own feet.

In an interview with a UK’s Daily, he said that the resources were present in the country for the reconstruction of the houses demolished due to the worst ever floods adding it was the time to evolve a strategy for the reconstruction after the devastating floods.

He maintained that the commission being formulated for fund raising should be independent.

He urged the leaders of all the political parties to jointly work for the formulation of an independent commission aiming at fund raising.

He said that two billion Pounds could be collected for the rehabilitation of the flood victims if the government cut down its official expenses while $3 billion could be collected from the domestic resources if the government show agreement in this regard.

He said the provincial governments should allocate amounts of money for the reconstruction work out of the provincial budgets.

He said the Punjab, Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa and Sindh should release amount for the rehabilitation.

He observed that the international community could not provide Pakistan with as much aids as it had provided in 2005 earthquake complaining that that time it also did not give suitable aid for the quake victims.

He maintained that 80, 000 people were killed due to 2005 earthquake but 16, 00 people have been killed due to the floods in Pakistan adding now the flood has wreaked havoc on a very large scale as the roads and bridges have been destroyed and countless villages have been submerged under water while the wheat stock has completely been destroyed.

Nawaz expressed fear that the death toll could further increase.