Flood in Pakistan is a National Disaster. Whole Nation Must Stand With Flood Effecties: Ch. Pervaiz Elahi, Ch. Shujaat Hussain

لاہور (16 اگست 2013ء ) پاکستان مسلم لیگ کے صدر سینیٹر چودھری شجاعت حسین اور سینئر مرکزی رہنما و سابق نائب وزیراعظم چودھری پرویزالٰہی نے متاثرین سیلاب سے دلی ہمدردی کا اظہار کرتے ہوئے کہا ہے کہ سیلاب کسی ایک جماعت یا فرد کا نہیں بلکہ یہ ایک قومی مسئلہ ہے اور پوری قوم کو مل جل کر متاثرین کی امداد و بحالی کے کاموں میں حصہ لینا چاہئے۔ انہوں نے کہا کہ ہم سب کو متاثرین کے شانہ بشانہ کھڑے ہو کر امدادی سرگرمیوں میں بڑھ چڑھ کر شریک ہونا چاہئے۔ مسلم لیگی قائدین نے ایک مشترکہ بیان میں کہا کہ مسلم لیگی کارکنوں کو اس کار خیر میں نمایاں طور پر حصہ لینا چاہئے اور وہ متاثرین کی خدمت کیلئے دن رات ایک کر دیں۔ انہوں نے کہا کہ جہاں متاثرین سیلاب کی فوری امداد اور بحالی کیلئے مؤثر اقدامات کی ضرورت ہے وہاں متوقع سیلاب سے پیدا ہونیوالی صورتحال سے نمٹنے کیلئے بھی ہنگامی اقدامات ضروری ہیں۔ انہوں نے توقع ظاہر کی کہ مخیر حضرات اور فلاحی ادارے امدادی سرگرمیاں تیز کردیں گے اور متاثرین کیلئے دل کھول کر امداد دیں گے۔ انہوں نے کہا کہ میڈیا بھی سیلاب سے ہونے والے نقصانات اور متاثرین کے مسائل کے ساتھ ساتھ عوام کی امدادی سرگرمیاں بھی اجاگر کرے تاکہ متاثرین مشکل کی اس گھڑی میں خود کو تنہا محسوس نہ کریں۔

Whether natural disasters or terrorist attacks Punjab Government miserably fails to act on advance warnings: Moonis Elahi

Lahore (September 02, 2010) Moonis Elahi, senior central leader of Pakistan Muslim League has alleged that Punjab under the burden of Shahbaz Government’s disastrous financial and administrative policies had submerged in deep and murky waters much before the floods began their devastation. Moonis Elahi has blamed the self proclaimed “Khadim-e-Ala’s” poor crisis management skills and his self serving “flood politics” as main reasons for the colossal loss of life and property in Punjab during and in the post floods phase. Moonis Elahi has called for Shahbaz Sharif’s resignation in the wake of his failure to protect people’s lives and well being during floods and against terrorist attacks. He has said that Pakistanis are a brave people and our true heroes are the floods stricken Pakistanis and the Pakistani individuals and institutions helping their brethren in this hour of dire need. Moonis Elahi made these comments during a meeting with party workers from Lahore at his residence today.

Moonis Elahi in his speech was highly critical of the poor law and order situation under N League in Punjab. Citing the tragic suicide bombing incidents at Data Darbar and Karballa Gamay Shah in Lahore, he said that if Shahbaz Sharif could not ensure security to religious places in his own family constituency then how he could ensure the security of the rest of the province. Criticizing Shahbaz administration’s poor response to advance warnings against floods as well as acts of terrorism in the province resulting in huge losses of life and property in both the cases Moonis Elahi demanded immediate resignation of Shahbaz Government and said that Shahbaz Government had lost all moral and political grounds to continue and with every passing day its legitimacy was becoming more questionable. Quoting a Punjab Government official’s statement where he had put the number of flood victims to whom Punjab Government had so far provided food at around only 250,000 people, Moonis Elahi remarked that it was an open admission of failure on their part as the number of flood affected and displaced in Punjab was in several millions. Moonis Elahi praised the flood affected Pakistanis for their exemplary fortitude in crisis and dubbed individuals and institutions working relentlessly for the relief and rehabilitation of their compatriots in trouble as the Nation’s true heroes.

Shahbaz Sharif is busy playing “flood politics” at government expense: Moonis Elahi

Lahore (August 30, 2010) Moonis Elahi, senior central leader of Pakistan Muslim League has said that Shahbaz Government should immediately be restricted from squandering huge public funds and resources desperately required for flood victims on personal publicity. While Shahbaz Sharif is busy playing “flood politics” at government expense the teeming millions struck by the country’s worst floods have been left to the vagaries of floods and the whims of N League’s MNAS and MPAS who are sitting on flood aid like serpents. Most of the aid for Punjab flood victims is not reaching the true beneficiaries. The announcement of Rs. 20,000 per flood victim family is nothing more than a practical joke. The minimum compensation per family should be Rs. 500,000. Moonis Elahi expressed these views today in Lahore during a meeting with party leaders.

In his address, Moonis Elahi strongly condemned the current publicity campaign of the Punjab Chief Minister and dubbed it as a criminal use of several million public rupees on personal promotion. He remarked that at a time when there were countless Pakistani men, women and children waiting for help the wastage of huge public funds on self or family promotion was a highly condemnable act of Shahbaz Government. He said that despite all its “flood politics” coming out of the tax payer’s pocket Shahbaz Government had failed to make any worthwhile impression on the mass mind.

Moonis Elahi alleged that because of his abuse of power and government resources there was now an even greater resentment against the incumbent Punjab Chief Minister than before. He said that presently his ability to handle crises was being seriously questioned by not just the general public but also by the Punjab CM’s own cabinet colleagues. Moonis Elahi said that at a time when the country and the province were going through an unprecedented trial Shahbaz Government was deliberately shunning the call for an emergent Punjab Assembly session on flood as it feared a massive criticism of the house.