Khawaja Zaheer Ahmed - PDMA

d. The then Secretary Irrigation Sindh and CE Guddu not only
misrepresented facts before the Commission, at Islamabad and the SE
Kotri on site at Thatta, knowing these to be false and deliberately
suppressed evidence of their respective culpability.
6. What is the approximate volume of losses sustained by the affectees and
Government during the floods?
Findings
a. Mundane Nationwide Losses of Infrastructure:
(i) Rs 855 billion, of which over 65% was by private peoples, excluding
complete loss of one additional Rabi crop, in Jaffarabad District of
Naseerabad Division in Balochistan.
(ii) The gross loss is almost 5.8% of the GDP and at par with debt
servicing allocations for fiscal 2010-11.
(iii) Public expenses by civil and defence establishments from their own
allocations are not reflected in the above losses.
b. Indirect Losses:
(i) Loss of human lives: 1,600, compensated or to be compensated @
Rs. 500,000/ per death.
(ii) Loss of one-half of academic sessions of some 7.0 million school
going children.
(iii) Loss of jobs: 4.5 million, mostly farm labour.
(iv) Exposure to diseases and malnutrition of 20 million people.
7. Whether relief was extended to the flood affectees on war footings or not?
Finding Despite glaring cases of inadequate attention in many areas, the
magnitude and scale of the disaster and the speed with which it unfolded in first
phase during July 27-12 th August, the overall rescue and relief operations
launched and logistics mobilized at all levels including public responses
constituted an impressive chapter of managerial history, particularly, if regard
was paid to prevailing organizational erosion since 1969. Both civil and military
establishments mobilized whatever they could; the NGOs extended full
cooperation to the affectees. The administration in KP and the Punjab remained
most visibly active.
8. Jacobabad Airport was available for flood relief operations, if so then why
the relief goods were not sent to affectees on urgent basis?
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