RAWALPINDI, Pakistan: Syed Shujaat Ali Bokhari, Additional Secretary of Tehreek Nafaz-e-Fiqh-e-Jafariya Pakistan has called upon the government to make special security measures on emergency basis in the areas affected by earthquake as a foremost priority and take over the control of distribution of food and relief items to the affected so that the relief is reached to the deserving people safe and sound.

He stated this while addressing the meeting of TNFJ Relief Committee for Quake-hit in which relief efforts of the Committee were reviewed.

Shujaat Bokhari said it would be better if the Tentage Villages would be set up near to the affected areas instead of Rawalpindi and Islamabad. He said first of all immediate action should be taken regarding making the coffins ready and bury those who lost their life and while burying the bodies, the places should be marked so that their relatives and near and dear ones could recognise them.

He called upon the media to avoid negative comments and criticism for the sake of criticism, and patients should stay away from seeing the heart-rending scenes on the electronic media. A generation has been destroyed in the grave disaster on October 8 and it would take a quarter century for the new generation to grow up.

The TNFJ Additional Secretary General, Shujaat Bokhari welcoming the address to the nation delivered by President Gen. Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday night said it seems that the President is aware of the woes of the affected and he has given the proof of elderliness by excusing for delay in the relief operation. He said TNFJ would continue full cooperation in providing relief to the earthquake affected.

Syed Hassan Raza Bokhari, Convener of the TNFJ Relief Committee for Quake-hit, told the participants of the meeting that relief goods are being sent to the affected areas by the Relief Committee on the special directive of Quaid-i-Millat-i-Jafariya Agha Syed Hamid Ali Shah Moosavi.

He said the vehicles carrying relief goods to face threat on way to the affected areas and the transporters feel threatened because they are being looted on their way for which the government should take some immediate measures. He said philanthropists, religious, social and welfare organisations were depositing huge funds in the President’s Relief Fund on the appeal of TNFJ Relief Committee while relief goods that include food items, living needs, tents, clothes are being delivered to the affected areas directly.