The president of the Popular Party of Pakistan (PPP), Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, has said that he will attract the Federal Government to resign from electricity bills for farmers and people affected by floods, while traveling through the Punjab areas on flood on Monday.
Speaking to journalists in Muzafargarh, Bilawal said an agricultural emergency was needed to support farmers beaten by devastation.
He has made suggestion to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to use Benazir’s income support program (BISP) to distribute financial compensation to flood victims.
Bilawal declared that in the previous times, such as the floods that took place during his mandate in the PDM government in 2022 and even during Covid, Bisp was used as a means to monetarily help people.
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He also urged the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to seek international help and asked the UN agencies to operate in Pakistan to contribute to relief and rehabilitation efforts.
The president requested the political unit, urging all parties to put aside the differences to face the crisis. However, when the reporters press it with the shortage of boats, life vests and flood camps, it did not offer concrete answers, saying that only the state was doing everything possible in front of an unprecedented disaster.
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Floods This monsoon has gained more than 900 lives, destroyed crops and displaced thousands of Punjab and Sindh.
Water inlets in the Indo River are expected to rise even more in the next few days, with the high flows forecast in the flood of Guddu.
