Mixed response over NDMA’s assistance
While Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa officials have criticised the NDMA’s work, Sindh is satisfied with the cooperation it has been receiving. Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Information Minister Iftikhar Hussain claims that three weeks into the floods, the NDMA was still absent from the relief operation in the province. “For ten days, the flooding was only in this province. But we didn’t hear from the NDMA and nor did we see any NDMA official. No one even contacted us,” he said. Sindh, on the other hand, differs. The southern-most province, which is currently battling the floods, says it is receiving full cooperation from the disaster management authority. “The NDMA has been of great help [to us] in providing relief and operational items like tents and boats,” said Sharmila Farooqui, adviser to the Sindh chief minister. “So far, we’ve had no problem. In fact we’ve been very lucky that there has been very good coordination between the NDMA, the Provincial Disaster Management Authority and the district disaster management authorities.”
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