ALTAF HUSSAIN INSTRUCTS MQM OFFICE BEARERS, WORKERS AND ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES TO ORGANISE EMERGENCY RELIEF FOR THE AFFECTED CITIZENS
DETAILS OF MQM RELIEF ACTIVITIES

London – 24^th June 2007

MQM Founder & Leader Mr Altaf Hussain has instructed all the MQM office bearers, workers, ministers, advisers, senators, members of national and provincial assemblies, city nazims, town and union council nazims, naib nazims and councillors to organise emergency relief for the affected citizens of the city as a result of the torrential pre-monsoon rains accompanied by severe dust storms. He expressed his grief and sorrow over the lost of lives and property as a result and has termed this as a national tragedy. He said that he and the MQM share the sorrow of the affected citizens. He prayed for those who lost their lives and expressed his grief to the affected family members and for the early recovery of those injured.

DETAILS OF EMERGENCY RELIEF ACTIVITIES OF THE MQM

• The MQM elected representatives spent a busy day organising and providing relief to the affected. They visited their constituencies and affected areas to assess the damage and loss as a result load shedding, falling off of trees, telephone, electric and bill boards and also to oversee the rain water drainage system. Immediate instructions and steps were taken to improve the situation.
• From Saturday evening MQM has installed seven relief camps in the city providing emergency relief including medical treatment. Members of MQM Medical Aid Committee and Paramedical Staff were manning these relief camps.
• City Nazim Mustafa Kamal and Haq Parast Provincial Minister Dr Sagheer Ahmed visited the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital to meet with under treatment patients. They issued instructions to the hospital doctors to provide utmost care to the patients.
• The MQM has installed three large medical aid camps in Gadap Town and Lyari where the members of MQM Medical Aid Committee and Paramedical Staff is providing first aid to the affected.
• The MQM Member of Coordination Committee and Provincial Minister Shoaib Bukhari visited the Patel Hospital in Karachi to meet and enquire about the welfare of the patients. He has instructed the hospital staff to provide all treatment to the affected.
• Members of MQM Coordination Committee Dr Nusrat, Nek Mohammad, Provincial Members of Sindh Assembly Idrees Siddiqui, Imam Uddin Shehzad an Naib Nazim of Gulberg Town Sohail Zaidi visited the Edhi Centre in Sohrab Goth and met with the family members of those who lost their lives and expressed their heartfelt condolences and sympathies.
• KKF has organised a relief at Edhi Home in Sohrab Goth to assist the affected families and provide them with ambulances for transporting their loved ones to their respective homes.
• The Haq Parast Member of National Assembly Syed Akhlaq Hussain Abidi and Town Nazim Saddar Town Mohammad Dilawar visited the home of Saif Ghulam who lost his life because of electrocution to express their condolences, sorrow and grief with his family members.
• The MQM Coordination Committee has established an emergency monitoring team at Nine Zero to oversee the emergency relief activities.
• The KKF has also begun its relief activities in the city.