MUZAFFARGARH / NOWSHERA: President Asif Ali Zardari visited flood-hit people in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab on Saturday, assuring them that the government would provide full compensation for the property that they had lost in the flooding.
He said the government had decided to ban export of wheat and some other commodities and these would be utilised to meet their food needs.
In the flood-stricken area of Alipur in Punjab, the president landed at a college and rushed to a relief camp set up in a government-run school, said State Minister for Economic Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar.
Ms Khar, who accompanied the president at the camp, quoted the president as having said that he had asked Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to hold a probe into a breach that occurred in the LMB canal and opening of spillways, a decision that resulted in severe devastation in the district.
Because of the breach in the Left Marginal Bank canal along the Taunsa barrage about 60 per cent of the district has been submerged.
Dost Muhammad Khosa, a member of the PML-led provincial government, was present during Mr Zardari’s visit to the area.
The PML-N mostly gave the cold shoulder to Mr Zardari during his visits to Punjab. During Mr Zardari’s last visit to Lahore, Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif had preferred to stay in Turkey, thus avoiding a meeting with the president and co-chairperson of the PPP.
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