Khyber Pakhtunkhwa would hold donor conference in Islamabad today (Friday) to brief foreign diplomats on devastation caused by the floods, also demanding Rs 200 billion from the Centre to repair damages and compensate losses.
Spokesman for the provincial government, Mian Iftikhar Hussain said that the KP Chief Minister Ameer Haider Hoti would brief envoys from the Muslim countries, European Union, the United States, China and other countries on flood destruction in the province. Hoti said that the KP government took the federal government into confidence over holding the donor conference.
“The donor conference would help the envoys understand the situation and help Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with its fight against militancy,” the spokesman told the press.
Mian Iftikhar explained that the case of this particular province was different, as they have to rebuild the destroyed infrastructure, compensate the damage to the public and fight terrorism at the same time, “We have suffered immensely, and we are also fighting the menace of terrorism,” said Iftikhar.
The KP spokesman warned that the terrorists would try to manipulate this occasion as the government was occupied fighting the flood situation. “Terrorists in Peshawar peripheries are regrouping and it would be difficult to fight on different fronts simultaneously unless KP is helped sufficiently,” Iftikhar added.
He said that the killing of Awami National Party leader Ubaidullah Yousafzai in Karachi on Thursday was an act of “terrorism”. He emphasised that the provincial government and Islamabad “must take notice of the situation to bring it under control.”
However, he laid no blame on any group for the killing of the party leader in Karachi where the ANP signed a ‘code of conduct’ with Muttahida Qaumi Movement and Pakistan People’s Party to help stop incidents of target killing.
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