Expatriates share strong bonds with roots: PAS Chief
Says teams in town for damage assessment - Briefs that PAS donated Rs.3,500,000 for quake relief
efforts - Eyes Donors’ Conference for quake aid - Urges masses to be optimistic
By Uzma Zafar

ISLAMABAD—”Expatriates might be away but their hearts are definitely hooked up where their roots are. Wherever there are Pakistanis, they are really shook up since 8th October disastrous tragedy and thus, making all out efforts to provide speedy relief to earthquake victims.” This was stated by Pakistan Association of Scotland’s Chairman; Chaudhry Muhammad Aslam, currently in town on a fact-finding mission, along with his team, to access the damaging impact of the 8th October natural disaster, at a press conference, at Medical Relief Center, F-10 Markaz, here this Monday.
Briefing the media, the convenor announced that his organization has so far spent Rs.3,500,000 for quake relief efforts and in the upcoming Doners’ Conference, more funds would be further pledged and sought from the international community, accordingly. Aslam said that his team was presently in town to show solidarity with their country’s brothers in the hour of desperate need. He said that going towards Muzaffarabad, his teams were expecting victims sitting along roads, crying desperately in need. But in reality, through his stay here, he has found the arriving number of victims from AJK diminishing through time while in the quake-hits areas as well, life is slowly coming back to normal.
Urging the masses, PAS Chief expressed that efforts were underway for quake victims’ relief and while everyone was at it including the army personnel, government circles, NGOs and volunteers from all around, the masses should not exhaust themselves with useless criticism for the sake of criticism but work collectively for the victims’ rehabilitation, appreciating the personnel whatsoever involved in the noble deed.
Chaudhry Muhammad Aslam; Chairman Pakistan Association of Scotland is the Member of British Empire (MBE) while others of the team include Chaudhry Muhammad Aslam and Hafiz Abdul Ghafoor. The delegation offered full support to quake survivors and reiterated the resolve to mobilize all possible resources to help rehabilitate earthquake affectees.