Khawaja Zaheer Ahmed - PDMA

evised from time to time, after surveys; the KP pursued a different verification
based policy approach with all the attendant implications. While doing so,
possibility of non-affectees getting benefits was not ruled out but that is a real
possibility in any operation of that magnitude and may be subjected to additional
screening and verifications. The more so, when the grants were contingent to
availability of foreign funds: By 27 th April, 2011 total bilateral and multilateral
commitments of US$ 2,670 million had been received; these included US$ 1,359
billion in the committed pipeline out of which US$ 534 million had been
disbursed. Out of in kind commitments of US$ 480 million, US$ 226 million had
been delivered. The Economic Affairs Division also confirmed projectized
assistance of US$ 2,066 million including those from DFI’s. Out of these US$ 390
million was earmarked on account of “Citizen Damage Compensation
Programme”. Of these the latest were two loans; One on 30 th March 2011,
IDA/World Bank approved a soft loan of US$ 115 million and second on 31 st
March, 2011 by ADB’s approval of a loan of US$ 650 million, including a US$ 50
million equivalent of soft ADF component, for Sindh flood restoration works. The
details of Foreign Assistance at various stages of the Flood 2010 are given
in a consolidated form at Annex-IV: A-C. The Commission noted the divergent
courses of action by three Provinces: e.g. To declare general areas as calamity
affected was non-discriminatory, as against more cumbersome but logical
approach in the KP option to verify individual claims that tends to equip the field
staff with discretion of potential abuse. The two have their respective merits.
Even though some 400,000 complaints about Watan cards were filed as many as
300,000 were stated to be settled. The nature of relationships in KP did not pose
any major problem. But being an executive policy domain, the Commission is
unable to suggest preferences except to sound a caution that whatever be their
policy choices, respective governments must ensure that grievances were
addressed promptly, justly and through a transparent mechanism; exceptional
cases and observed anomalies be resolved at responsible levels, by discretion
tempered with mercy. Particularly, the case of affectees whose lands were lost to
rivers that changed their course or the old and ladies separated without legal
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