‘PPP-P to build small houses to protect quake-affectees from chilly winter’
By Asim Hussain

ISLAMABAD—Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarian (PPP-P) Secretary General Jahangir Bader Wednesday said his party would construct small size houses for the quake victims aimed to protect them from chilly weather before the onset of extreme winter in these areas.
“Next week, PPP-P delegation will leave for London to meet party chairperson Benazir Bhutto to discuss matters pertaining to the reconstruction and rehabilitation of the quake affected people”, he stated this while addressing a press conference in Islamabad.
He said that construction of 25 plywood houses in Batel village is underway whereas on the directives of party chairperson 25 more houses as well as a school, mosque and hospital will also be built in the area. He also demanded of the government to fulfill its responsibility of the reconstruction and rehabilitation of the calamity hit areas.
Jahangir said that PPP-P chairperson Benazir Bhutto had donated Rs 5 million to the quake-affected people while other parliamentarians donated their one moth salaries for the parliament fund and party relief fund besides dispatching trucks of edible to the quake affected areas on their own behalf.
PPP-P leader also thanked the international organizations and international community for their generous help to the disaster stricken people. PPP-P leader Zamurd Khan stated on the occasion that his party established a tent village on the name of Benazir Bhutto in Muzaffarabad for the affectees but now party was considering that immediately safe houses should be constructed to save them from the intense cold weather.
He demanded of the government for proper utilization and audit of the fund received from the international community for the rehabilitation of the quake affectees.