ISLAMABAD: Co-chairman of Pakistan People’s Party and former president Asif Ali Zardari has asked the party leadership to reach out to internally displaced persons in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and render all possible assistance in their relief and rehabilitation.
A large number of tribal families have moved out of North Waziristan due to the operation against the militants, adding to the already bulging population of IDPs in the province. Official estimates put the figures of registered IDPs at over four lakh with many more still pouring in.
“The internally displaced persons in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are our heroes who are undergoing untold sufferings and miseries in the nation’s drive against the militants and they must not be left alone in their hour of tribulation,” Zardari said yesterday.
Spokesperson Senator Farhatullah Babar said the former president yesterday directed the provincial president Khanzada Khan to draw up a workable plan in consultation with the party officials for the rehabilitation of IDPs in the province involving also party chapters in other provinces in providing material assistance in the gigantic task.
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