vigorous fund raising campaign has been started for assistance of IDPs: Hamza Shahbaz

Lahore: Central leader PML-N Hamza Shahbaz Sharif MNA has said that a
vigorous fund raising campaign has been started for assistance of
IDPs. He said that people belonging to all segments of the society
including traders, industrialists, farmers, ulema, teachers, students,
government employees and overseas Pakistanis have joined this
campaign. He said that fund-raising committees headed by various
ministers and assembly members have been activated. He said that the
entire nation is standing by IDPs in this hour of trial.

He expressed these views while presiding over a meeting of Chief
Minister’s Committee constituted for IDPs at Model Town office, today.
Members of the Committee Provincial Ministers Rana Mashhood Ahmed
Khan, Ch. Muhammad Shafique, MNA Pervaiz Malik, Khawaja Ahmed Hassaan
and Secretary Information Momin Ali Agha attended the meeting. Hamza
Shahbaz Sharif told the participants that the unprecedented sacrifices
of IDPs will not only guarantee the protection of geographical and
ideological frontiers of the country but after the success of
operation Zarb-a-Azb, every citizen of the country will get fruit of
the sacrifices in the shape of peace and development. He said that
practical work has been started through a comprehensive planning for
effective help of IDPs.

He said that all segments of the society are being included in the fund raising campaign particularly male and female students of universities and colleges will play a vanguard role in this campaign. Hamza Shahbaz said that 48 lakh registered male and female students of Punjab Youth Festival have been made volunteers for fund raising campaign. He said that this youth force will be helpful for overcoming this crisis.

Hamza Shahbaz Sharif said that short and medium term planning is
being made for accelerating the process of help and rehabilitation of
IDPs. He said that duties have been assigned to various ministers,
assembly members, representatives of traders, ulema and social leaders
and a vigorous fund raising campaign has been started. He said that
contacts from common man to philanthropists are being made under this
campaign.

Hamza Shahbaz said that this national mission of survival of
the country will be changed like a national campaign with the complete
assistance of media which will be helpful for rooting out the menace
of terrorism. Hamza Shahbaz stressed upon participants to contact
every person for maximum fund raising.

He said that fund raising camps should be set up at district, tehsil, village, town and market level so that maximum funds could be collected and the miseries of the IDPs could be minimized by providing relief items to them at the earliest who have sacrificed their today on our tomorrow for the success of the decisive operation of Pak Army against terrorism.