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17/07/2022

Sindh Home Department has allowed the police to recover Dua Zehra and arrest her ‘husband’ Zaheer Ahmed in the alleged kidnapping case.

Teenage girl Dua Zehra went missing from her house in Karachi on April 16 and later surfaced and announced to marry Zaheer in Lahore.

The home department in its letter, has issued orders to the anti-violent crime cell (AVCC) for recovery of Dua and arrest of Zaheer Ahmed in the abduction case.

“The in-charge police party should get transit remand from court after arrests,” according to the government order. “Be careful of human rights while shifting the accused and the abductee to Karachi,” the letter read. “The officer in-charge should also take care that no person from the opposite party travel with the accused,” according to the letter.

Dua Zehra will be shifted to Karachi after her recovery with the permission of the Punjab home department.

Investigation Officer of Dua Zehra case, on Saturday told the court that presence of Zaheer Ahmed in Karachi, has been confirmed on April 16, the day of the abduction incident.

In a progress report submitted in the court, the IO said that the CDR record has been attained. Accused Zaheer Ahmed was present in Karachi on April 16.

17/07/2022

There is a need to encourage local IT companies to participate in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) projects for eventual entry into the Chinese market, the Advisory Council on Information Technology (IT) and Digital Economy said on Thursday.

At the first meeting of the advisory council, it was stressed that there must be consistency in government policies to be attractive to local and international investors.

Chairing the meeting, Federal Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunications Syed Amin-Ul-Haque said that Chinese investors were vying to establish another optic fibre link from Khunjerab to Rawalpindi and along the railway line to Karachi.

The meeting was informed that the objective was to link Karachi with Gwadar and carry the cable onwards under sea, towards the Persian Gulf region.

The minister said the government held a high-level meeting with the companies involved in CPEC projects.

“The target was to have market access for Pakistani companies in the Chinese market,” he added.

He highlighted the steps identified to achieve this target, which include facilitating Chinese IT companies in establishing offices in Pakistan.

“We can harness Pakistan’s position in the region to make Pakistan a cloud regional hub, and we need collaboration with Chinese counterparts on cloud initiatives,” Mr Haque said.

Talking to about the ambitious target to export IT services to Chinese markets, the minister said that most Pakistani firms involved in IT exports started as sub-contractors for large companies in the West and other areas.

“Now we have stable IT exports while the freelancers’ base is also strong. Now is the time to ask Chinese companies to outsource projects to the Pakistani IT industry,” he said, adding, “It has been agreed that Chinese firms will start involving Pakistani experts in projects within China.”

The council meeting was attended by Minister for Finance Muftah Ismail, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Youth Affairs Shaza Fatima, Senator Afananullah Khan, representatives of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) and the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), and council members from the public and private sector.

The advisory council was formed on June 5 and is headed by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, with the view of promoting the IT industry and enhancing the digital economy of Pakistan.

The council decided to form committees for IT Export, Personal Data Protection, and Telecom Sector Growth.

The three committees will finalise their recommendations in a week, which will be presented to the PM and the Chairperson of the Advisory Council.

The committee for IT Exports is led by former secretary IT Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui; the committee for Personal Data Protection Rules by Senator Afnanullah Khan; and the Telecom Committee is chaired by Jazz CEO Amir Ibrahim.

16/07/2022

MIT professor Donald Sadoway’s work could enable long-term storage of renewable energy.

For his work on liquid metal batteries that could enable the long-term storage of renewable energy, MIT Professor Donald Sadoway has won the 2022 European Inventor Award, in the category for Non-European Patent Office Countries.
Sadoway is a longtime supporter and friend of MIT’s Materials Research Laboratory and is the John F. Elliott Professor of Materials Chemistry in MIT’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering.

“By enabling the large-scale storage of renewable energy, Donald Sadoway’s invention is a huge step towards the deployment of carbon-free electricity generation,” says António Campinos, President of the European Patent Office. “He has spent his career studying electrochemistry and has transformed this expertise into an invention that represents a huge step forward in the transition to green energy.”

Professor Sadoway was honored at the 2022 European Inventor Award ceremony at Munich’s Bavaria Studios on June 21. The award is one of Europe’s most prestigious innovation prizes. It is presented annually to outstanding inventors from Europe and beyond who have made an extraordinary contribution to technological progress, society, and economic growth.
When accepting the award in Munich, Sadoway told the audience:

“I am astonished. When I look at all the patented technologies that are represented at this event I see an abundance of excellence, all of them solutions to pressing problems. I wonder if the judges are assessing not only degrees of excellence but degrees of urgency. The liquid metal battery addresses an existential threat to the health of our atmosphere which is related to climate change.

“By hosting this event the EPO celebrates invention. The thread that connects all the inventors is their efforts to make the world a better place. In my judgment, there is no nobler pursuit. So perhaps this is a celebration of nobility.”
Sadoway’s liquid metal batteries consist of three liquid layers of different densities, which naturally separate in the same way as oil and vinegar do in a salad dressing. The top and bottom layers are made from molten metals, with a middle layer of molten liquid salt.

To keep the metals liquid, the batteries need to operate at extremely high temperatures, so Sadoway designed a system that is self-heating and insulated, requiring no external heating or cooling. They have a lifespan of more than 20 years, can maintain 99 percent of their capacity over 5,000 charging cycles, and have no combustible materials, meaning there is no fire risk.

In 2010, with a patent for his invention and support from Bill Gates, Sadoway co-founded Ambri, based in Marlborough, Massachusetts just outside Boston, to develop a commercial product. The company will soon install a unit on a 3,700-acre development for a data center in Nevada. This battery will store energy from a reported 500 megawatts of on-site renewable generation, the same output as a natural gas power plant.

Born in 1950 into a family of Ukrainian immigrants in Canada, Sadoway studied chemical metallurgy specializing in what he calls “extreme electrochemistry” — chemical reactions in molten salts and liquid metals that have been heated to over 500 degrees Celsius. After earning his BASc, MASc, and PhD, all from the University of Toronto, he joined the faculty at MIT in 1978.

16/07/2022

Sendit, Yolo, NGL: Anonymous Social Apps Are Taking Over Once More, but They Aren’t Without Risks
Have you ever told a stranger a secret about yourself online? Did you feel a certain kind of freedom doing so, specifically because the context was removed from your everyday life? Personal disclosure and anonymity have long been a potent mix laced through our online interactions. We've recently seen this through the resurgence of anonymous question apps targeting young people, including Sendit and NGL (which stands for “not gonna lie”). The latter has been installed 15 million times globally, according to recent reports.
These apps can be linked to users' Instagram and Snapchat accounts, allowing them to post questions and receive anonymous answers from followers.
Although they're trending at the moment, it's not the first time we've seen them. Early examples include ASKfm, launched in 2010, and Spring.me, launched in 2009 (as “Fromspring”).
These platforms have a troublesome history. As a sociologist of technology, I've studied human-technology encounters in contentious environments. Here's my take on why anonymous question apps have once again taken the internet by storm, and what their impact might be.
Why are they so popular? We know teens are drawn to social platforms. These networks connect them with their peers, support their journeys towards forming identity, and provide them space for experimentation, creativity and bonding.
We also know they manage online disclosures of their identity and personal life through a technique sociologists call “audience segregation”, or “code switching”. This means they're likely to present themselves differently online to their parents than they are to their peers.
Digital cultures have long used online anonymity to separate real-world identities from online personas, both for privacy and in response to online surveillance. And research has shown online anonymity enhances self-disclosure and honesty.
For young people, having online spaces to express themselves away from the adult gaze is important. Anonymous question apps provide this space. They promise to offer the very things young people seek: opportunities for self-expression and authentic encounters.
Risky by design
We now have a generation of kids growing up with the internet. On one hand, young people are hailed as pioneers of the digital age – and on the other, we fear for them as its innocent victims.
A recent TechCrunch article chronicled the rapid uptake of anonymous question apps by young users, and raised concerns about transparency and safety.
NGL exploded in popularity this year, but hasn't solved the issue of hate speech and bullying. Anonymous chat app YikYak was shut down in 2017 after becoming littered with hateful speech – but has since returned.
These apps are designed to hook users in. They leverage certain platform principles to provide a highly engaging experience, such as interactivity and gamification (wherein a form of “play” is introduced into non-gaming platforms).
Also, given their experimental nature, they're a good example of how social media platforms have historically been developed with a “move fast and break things” attitude. This approach, first articulated by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, has arguably reached its use-by date.
Breaking things in real life is not without consequence. Similarly, breaking away from important safeguards online is not without social consequences. Rapidly developed social apps can have harmful consequences for young people, including cyberbullying, cyberdating abuse, image-based abuse and even online grooming.
In May 2021, Snapchat suspended integrated anonymous messaging apps Yolo and LMK, after being sued by the distraught parents of teens who committed su***de after being bullied through the apps.
Yolo's developers overestimated the capacity of their automated content moderation to identify harmful messages.
In the wake of these suspensions, Sendit soared through the app store charts as Snapchat users sought a replacement.
Snapchat then banned anonymous messaging from third-party apps in March this year, in a bid to limit bullying and harassment. Yet it appears Sendit can still be linked to Snapchat as a third-party app, so the implementation conditions are variable.
Are kids being manipulated by chatbots? It also seems these apps may feature automated chatbots parading as anonymous responders to prompt interactions – or at least that's what staff at Tech Crunch found.
Although chatbots can be harmless (or even helpful), problems arise if users can't tell whether they're interacting with a bot or a person. At the very least it's likely the apps are not effectively screening bots out of conversations.
Users can't do much either. If responses are anonymous (and don't even have a profile or post history linked to them), there's no way to know if they're communicating with a real person or not.
It's difficult to confirm whether bots are widespread on anonymous question apps, but we've seen them cause huge problems on other platforms – opening avenues for deception and exploitation.
For example, in the case of Ashley Madison, a dating and hookup platform that was hacked in 2015, bots were used to chat with human users to keep them engaged. These bots used fake profiles created by Ashley Madison employees.
What can we do?
Despite all of the above, some research has found many of the risks teens experience online pose only brief negative effects, if any. This suggests we may be overemphasising the risks young people face online.
At the same time, implementing parental controls to mitigate online risk is often in tension with young people's digital rights.
So the way forward isn't simple. And just banning anonymous question apps isn't the solution.
Rather than avoid anonymous online spaces, we'll need to trudge through them together – all the while demanding as much accountability and transparency from tech companies as we can.
For parents, there are some useful resources on how to help children and teens navigate tricky online environments in a sensible way.

16/07/2022

'The Gray Man' puts Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans in spy mode as Netflix flexes its action muscle
"The Gray Man's" biggest muscle flex doesn't come from Ryan Gosling or Chris Evans (not that they're slackers), but rather the overall casting, throwing in Ana de Armas after her butt-kicking Bond role as well as Regé-Jean Page post-"Bridgerton," Jessica Henwick ("The Matrix") and Indian star Dhanush. The script, alas, is a bit of a 98-pound weakling, but given the escapist demands probably sufficient to get the job done.
Indeed, "Gray Man" comes from the "Red Notice" school of loud if not-all-that-colorful Netflix action movies, where casting, social-media clout and superhero cred in the key cast makes the quality basically irrelevant. Never mind the movie, the poster alone, including "Avengers" directors the Russo brothers, practically ensures astronomical "minutes viewed" numbers.
Even less than "Red," though, "Gray Man" doesn't really measure up to the hype, which includes the obligatory advance theatrical release to grease the wheels for its streaming assault.
Based on the book series, the film serves as the latest iteration of the Bond-Bourne genre, but even more than most the spy-versus-spy shenanigans plays like an excuse for the elaborate action sequences and insane stunt work, which produce a few genuine highlights but also yield gradually diminishing returns, especially down the home stretch.
Whether Gosling wants a future as the shadowy CIA assassination known only as Six remains to be seen (he jokes that 007 was already taken), but this represents a modest if perhaps inevitable addition to his eclectic resume. As if to punctuate the point, Evans' character derisively refers to him as a "Ken doll," a sly reference to his next foray into the recesses of franchise moviemaking.
Gosling's Court Gentry gets plucked out of prison, naturally, to kill for the CIA, operating in a gray realm that, to quote the old song, gives him a number and takes away his name. Yet Six's latest mission brings him possession of information that makes him dangerous to those above him, threatening everyone from his colleague on that operation (De Armas) to the now-retired handler (Billy Bob Thornton) who recruited him.
Taking out Six, however, is going to require some big guns, which explains why those seeking to kill him enlist Lloyd Hansen (Evans), a sociopathic contract killer who boasts "I can kill anybody" -- a claim Six will put to the test -- and cares little about collateral damage or keeping "covert" actions the least bit secret, to an almost-comical degree.
The chase carries the principals all over the globe, and just to up the ante, throws in an imperiled kid with a heart condition (Julia Butters, already developing quite a resume after "Once Upon a Time in ... Hollywood") to give Six something to fight for beyond himself.
The screenplay (credited to co-director Joe Russo, Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely) does include some sly humor, and Evans in particular appears to be relishing villainous rogues after his squeaky-clean, star-spangled image. Even so, a torture sequence to demonstrate how bad he is winds up feeling somewhat gratuitous.
Ultimately, "The Gray Man" is an unintentionally appropriate title to describe a movie that exists within such a narrow band of the cinematic spectrum. While a step up over the Russos' last streaming effort, the bleak "Cherry," it's the equivalent of an old-time "B" movie with an A-level cast and budget.
At one point, Six dismisses the risks and punishment he endures by saying, "Just another Thursday." While "Gray Man" isn't quite that mundane, in the bigger scheme of Netflix's adventures in blockbuster filmmaking, it does feel like just another action movie.

16/07/2022

IMF worries over CPEC energy deals still loom large
Pakistan has assured the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that it would try to receive concessions from the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) power plants in the shape of either reduction in the profit rates on investment or rescheduling the loan repayments.

The issue of reopening of the purchase agreements of the power generation plants set up under the multi-billion dollar CPEC is unlikely to die down in the near future. The previous PTI government had also made a similar commitment with another global lender – the World Bank (WB) – for the sake of a $400 million loan in June last year.

The assurance to seek concessions from the Chinese investors was given by Pakistani authorities to remove one of the bottlenecks in finalization of a staff-level agreement with the IMF, government sources told
They added that Pakistan had informed the global lender that it would try to renegotiate the CPEC deals. However, the chances of that happening are dim because of the political sensitivities involved in the process.

CPEC is the flagship project of the Belt and Road Initiative of the Chinese government – a reason that the Chinese leadership has already ruled out the possibility of reopening these deals. The sources said the government had assured the IMF that it would also try to explore the possibility of seeking an extension in debt repayments against the loans that Chinese investors had obtained from financial institutions in their country for setting up these plants.

One of the irritants in the early conclusion of the staff-level agreement was that the IMF authorities were asking for clear commitments to reduce the power generation cost and the circular debt that had increased by another Rs850 billion during the last fiscal year.

Neither the finance ministry nor the IMF responded to the requests for comments. The PTI government had also made an attempt to receive similar concessions – which the Chinese leadership refused to extend at that time.
The sources said the PTI government and the Chinese authorities had discussed a proposal to set up a joint fund to settle the energy payments. At that time, the estimated size of this fund was $1.4 billion.
The joint fund proposal was different from the revolving fund that the government is contractually obligated to open to save Chinese investors from the circular debt but has failed to achieve this.

The IMF has in the past linked the outstanding energy payments to the Chinese power plants with the concessions that non-CPEC projects had extended to the previous government. Pakistan owes around Rs300 billion to the Chinese independent power producers (IPPs) and the IMF was keeping track of every payment made to them.

So far, 11 Chinese IPPs, set up with an investment of $10.2 billion, are operational, having a total generation capacity of 5,320 MW. Last month, the IMF had denied that it asked Pakistan to renegotiate CPEC IPPs contracts but said it supported the government’s multipronged strategy to restore energy sector’s viability. It had added that the move shared the burden of restoring viability across all stakeholders – the government, producers, and consumers.

The Pakistani authorities fear that the West would not change its policy to keep pressuring it on the issue of CPEC and keep pursuing its agenda through diplomatic channels and international financial institutions. For the sake of the $400 million budget support loan, the PTI government had already conceded to reopen all the power deals signed in the past, according to unclassified documents of the WB.

The WB-funded $400 million Programme for Affordable and Clean Energy (PACE) requires revision of generation tariffs of almost all the IPPs. About 32 deals have already been sealed. It was the requirement of the PACE that by December 2023, Pakistan would ensure that fixed costs of 75 power generation plants would be revised downward, according to the WB documents.

Bringing down the fixed costs, which includes debt repayments, would necessitate the reopening of these deals. According to the WB documents, the realignment of power purchase agreements with the IPPs must be done in an orderly and transparent manner consistent with Pakistan’s contractual and legal obligations, by mutual agreements between the government and private entities.

The sources said that at the time of the signing of the PACE loan agreement, the country was under immense pressure to agree to a binding reopening of the Chinese deals. However, the government did not explicitly agree to it but gave a commitment that 75 deals would be renegotiated.
The same report stated that in the private sector, Pakistan held discussions with 47 IPPs (out of total 67 operational IPPs) that signed a memorandum of understanding in August 2020. Revised agreements had been signed for 32 IPPs.

The IMF is now using the renegotiated 32 IPPs deals as a pretext to reopen the Chinese deals. The IMF and WB want Pakistan to receive concessions through lowering capacity payments by reducing allowed return on equity as per certain power policies.

Agreements reached so far with IPPs give estimated savings in capacity charges of 8.7% on average over fiscal year 2022 to 2024, according to the WB. In April 2020 the government secured concessions from local investors through use of various tactics and pressures.

The PACE loan document stated that under the worst-case scenario where the circular debt arrears were not settled by the Pakistani government in a timely manner, the IPPs had the option of calling on the sovereign guarantee of the power purchase agreements and going for international arbitration.

Under such circumstances, an international court could order immediate payment of all outstanding and future arrears (circular debt flow for the coming years) from the government to the IPPs, according to the report. The capacity charge is projected to increase to 70% of the total cost of power.

The reduction of capacity charges of private IPPs is also essential to reach a significant overall reduction of power generation costs, according to the WB. There are also five wind power plants that have been set up by US investors in Pakistan.

Under the same arrangement, the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) has reportedly shown willingness to revise power purchase agreements of its sponsored wind power projects subject to concessions from the Pakistani government.

16/07/2022

China’s value-added industrial output, an important economic indicator, went up 3.4 percent year on year in the first half of this year, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed Friday.

In June alone, industrial output growth quickened to 3.9 percent year on year, expanding by 3.2 percentage points from that in May, according to the NBS.

The industrial output is used to measure the activity of designated large enterprises with an annual business turnover of at least 20 million yuan (about 2.96 million U.S. dollars).

15/07/2022

The Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) buses in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's capital city will be handed over to a private company at extremely low prices after 10 years.

Chief Executive Officer Trans Peshawar Fayyaz Khan told Geo News that the buses that have been used for 12 years or have covered about 1.2 million kilometres will be given to the private company as this was a part of the agreement. He added that this will not affect the government in any way.

The company will buy the 18-metre-long bus for just Rs288 while the 12-metre-long one for just Rs144. The original price of a single bus is Rs40 million.

15/07/2022

The federal government has decided to launch a crackdown on defamation and vilification on social media after federal Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal was heckled in a fast food restaurant.

The incident made headlines in the media after it went viral on social media.

In the video, a family can be seen chanting slogans against Iqbal while he was queued up at the restaurant. The family subsequently apologised to him at a later date.

Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah chaired a meeting today, which was also attended by Federal Secretary Interior, IG Punjab, DG FIA and Acting Chairman Nadra Khalid Latif and other officials.

In the meeting, issues of harassment of citizens and uploading "immoral videos" on social media were discussed and it was decided to crack down "on those who share defamatory content on social media and impersonate others".

The officials also deliberated on "blackmailing and character assassination of citizens".

15/07/2022

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14/07/2022

Pakistan Petroleum Dealers Association (PPDA) has announced a nationwide strike on July 17 and demanded the government fix the dealers’ margin by 6%, ARY News reported on Wednesday.

The petrol dealers threatened to observe a nationwide strike on July 18 if the government fails to fulfil their demand of fixing the dealer margin at 6%.

The association said that the minimum wage of an employee has reached Rs25,000 and prices of other commodities were also increased. The dealers said that the margin should be increased up to 6% due to the increase in the expenditures.

Moreover, banners having the strike call and demands of the PPDA were posed at the petrol pumps of different cities. The government has not contacted the PPDA office-bearers to seek withdrawal of their strike call so far.

On the other hand, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif-led federal government hinted at reducing petroleum products prices for the first time after coming into power. The federal government is likely to decrease the petrol price up to Rs8 per litre.

14/07/2022

ٹانک(بیورورپورٹ)ٹانک کے پائی کو ایک اور سیلابی ریلے کا سامنا بچا کچا سامان بھی بہہ گیا صوبائی اور مرکزی حکومتوں نے متاثرین پائی کو بے یارو مدد گار چھوڑ دیا چھت سے محروم ہزاروں متاثرین کھلے آسماں تلے شدید گرمی میں بغیر بجلی اور پانی کے گزر بسر کرنے پر مجبور ہیں اکثر متاثرین نے نقل مکانی کی لیکن وسائل کی عدم موجودگی کے باعث اب ایک بڑئ تعداد میں متاثرین ملبے کے ڈھیر پر بیٹھ کر حکام کے منتظر ہیں پاک فوج اور تحصیل میئر صدام بیٹنی متاثرین کی مدد کیلئے ڈٹ گئے ہیں راشن کی تقسیم ملبے سے سامان نکالنے اور سیلابی گزرگاہوں کی صفائی کا عمل جاری ہے ممکنہ سیلاب سے بچانے کی منصوبہ بندی کیلئے سیکٹر کمانڈر تنویر حسین کا سیلاب کے موجب رد گھڑئی رد لنڈائے اور رد دڑ کا دورہ بند باندھنے کی تیاریاں علاقائی رضاء کار بھی امدادی کاروائیوں میں بدستور حصہ لے رہے ہیں صوبائی حکومت کی غیر سنجیدگی کے باعث متاثرین کی آباد کاری محظ خواب بن گیا ہے تاحال وزیر بلدیات کا یہاں دورہ کرنا تو اپنی جگہ ان کا تہنیتی بیان بھی سامنے نہیں آسکا ہے

تفصیلات کے مطابق سیلاب سے 80 فیصد صفہ ہستی سے مٹ جانے والے ٹانک کے گاؤں پائی کو ایک اور بڑے سیلابی ریلے نے تباہ کرکے رکھ دیا ہے کبھی بارش کبھی دھوپ اور کبھی سیلاب پائی میں متاثرین سیلاب کی زندگی ایک عذاب بن کر رہ گئی ہے ملبے کے ڈھیر پر بیٹھے بچے بوڑھے اور خواتین بھوک اور پیاس کی حالت میں حسرت و یاس کی تصویر بن چکے ہیں تین روز گزرنے کے باوجود صوبائی اور مرکزی حکومت کی جانب سے متاثرین سیلاب زدگان کی داد رسی کیلئے کوئی نہ پہنچ سکا ہے پائی میں سیلاب کے باعث ہونے والی اموات کے بعد ہیضے کی وباء سے اموات نے متاثرین سیلاب کو چکرا کر رکھ دیا ہے دوسری جانب سرکاری محکموں کی مجرمانہ غفلت اور لاپرواہی کے باعث ایک جانب تین روز سے بجلی کی ترسیل جہاں بند ہے وہیں پر پینے کا صاف پانی بھی ناپید ہوچکا ہے انفراسٹرکچر تباہ ہے صحت کی سہولیات باوجود کوشش کے ناکافی ہیں پاک فوج کی جانب سے اگرچہ راشن تقسیم کیا جارہا ہے لیکن متاثرین کی تعداد زیادہ ہونے کی وجہ سے راشن ان کیلئے ناکافی ہے کھلے آسماں تلے پڑے متاثرین سیلاب کیلئے پاک فوج کی جانب سے تقسیم کئے جانے والے 100 خیمے اور 100 کچن سیٹ متاثرین کی ضروریات سے کہیں گنا کم ہیں متاثرین اس وقت بے سرو سامانی کی حالت میں ہیں ادھر شہر اور دیہی علاقوں میں متاثرین کی مدد کیلئے سٹی ناظم اتحاد اور دیگر سرکردہ علاقائی مشران کی جانب سے جاری چندہ مہم دوسرے روز بھی جاری رہی اور اب تک لاکھوں روپے متاثرین کی مدد کیلئے چندہ اکھٹا کرلیا گیا ہے متاثرین جہاں پاک فوج کی امدادی کاروائیوں سے مطمئن وہیں پر صوبائی اور مرکزی حکومتوں کی جانب سے بے رخی پر شدید نالاں ہیں واضح رہے کہ صوبائی و مرکزی حکومتوں کی جانب سے متاثرین سیلاب کو ان کے حال پر چھوڑ دیا گیا ہے اوائل میں پی ٹی آئی کی مقامی اور ڈویژ نل قیادت کی جانب سے وزیراعلی کی دورہ پائی کی بازگشت اور پائی کو آفت زدہ قرار دینے کا اعلان بھی کیا گیا لیکن تمام دعوے اس وقت صرف دعوے ہی رہ گئے ہیں اور تاحال صوبائی حکومت کا کوئی بھی اہلکار تو اپنی جگہ وزیر بلدیات فیصل آمین گنڈہ پور بھی حالات کا جائزہ اور متاثرین کے مسائل سننے کیلئے نہیں پہنچ سکے ہیں جو صوبائی حکومت کی غیر سنجیدگی کا مظہر ہے یاد رہے متاثرین سیلاب کیلئے مضافاتی علاقوں سے شہری اپنی مدد آپ کے تحت تیار کھانا لارہے ہیں لیکن اس میں بھی آج کمی دیکھنے کو ملی اور بعض محلہ جات میں متاثرین کھانے پینے سے محروم رہے ہیں پائی کی صورتحال کو مدنظر رکھتے ہوئے اگر صوبائی و مرکزی حکومت سمیت ایم ڈی ایم اے نے ہنگامی بنیادوں پر اقدامات نہ اٹھائے گئے تو متاثرین کی ایک تلخ داستان رقم ہوسکتی ہے