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PIMA Tsunami relief mission in Aceh begin


 

LAHORE, Jan 13: Tsunami relief mission of Pakistan Islamic Medical Association (PIMA) headed by Dr. Mohammad Iqbal has started relief activities in worst-hit Aceh island of Indonesia, says a message received here on Thursday.
The PIMA mission flew to Indonesia two days back and carried some 130 kilogram load of medicines with them from Pakistan and plan to procure more medicines on request cum demand basis from Jakarta.

 

The PIMA volunteers’ team is comprised of Dr. Anas Farhan Qazi son of Ameer Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan Qazi Hussain Ahmed, IT expert Imtiaz Ahmed and host of other senior physicians who are providing medical treatment to Tsunami hit people of Indonesia.On their arrival at Jakarta, Islamic Medical Association and Network of Indonesia (IMANI) received the PIMA delegation at Jakarta airport.
Chairman IMANI, Dr. Jamal Mohammad, briefed the Pakistan doctors about the situation in Aceh.
Later, PIMA volunteers visited office of the Red Crescent Indonesia and exchanged views on the modus operandi of relief operations with members of Jamiaah Islah, Malaysia who are in Indonesia for relief operations.
The chairman Red Crescent Indonesia (RCI) also briefed them about the situation of Aceh and the working of other NGOs. The RCI is the first NGO to arrive after the Tsunami disaster.
Briefing JI ameer Qazi Hussain Ahmed on telephone from Aceh, the head of PIMA relief mission in Indonesia expressed concern over the presence of over seventeen thousand US troops in Aceh with unknown intentions.
He said situation in Indonesia is very grave. Dead bodies are still lying unburied, and about seventy thousand people are also missing. PIMA volunteers have called upon Al-Khidmat and Jamaat-e-Islami to speed up their fund raising drive so that adequate relief could be provided to marooned people in Indonesia and elsewhere.

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