50,000 people have already arrived and are currently residing in camps
As expected, Karachi has begun to receive thousands of people who have been forced to flee their homes due to recent flooding in various parts of Sindh. According to a provincial government estimate, more than 50,000 people have already arrived and are currently residing in camps set up by local authorities in the city.
Every day, on average, between 3,000 and 4,000 flood victims from the province's several disaster-stricken areas arrive in the city.
The conference, which covered the rehabilitation of the flood victims, their current situation, and a relief strategy, was presided over by Saeed Ghani, the Sindh Labor Minister and Karachi Division President of the PPP.
MPA Jokhio reports that 3,000–4,000 people enter the city every day; Ghani worries that land speculators and criminals may take advantage of the situation.
During the debate, it was revealed that many of the flood victims had been compelled to go to Karachi, where they were lodging in camps set up by the provincial government. The flood had rendered hundreds of thousands of people homeless in various districts of Sindh.
The ruling party also acknowledged that certain individuals were taking advantage of the situation and used flood victims as a front to carry out their illicit activities.
According to a party release, Minister Ghani stated during the meeting that "so far, some 50,000 [flood-hit] individuals have already come in Karachi." In Sachal Goth, districts East, West, and Keamari, the Sindh government has established camps where all of these people are residing.
According to him, everyone travelled to Karachi on their own initiative. According to reports, some land speculators and criminals intend to discredit the flood victims by exploiting their names to advance their own agendas.
Waqar Mehdi, a special assistant to the chief minister and the Sindh general secretary of the PPP, said the gathering that the province government was setting up medical facilities at each camp housing flood victims.
Additionally, he stated that the party does not accept financial donations and that anyone wishing to contribute should transfer money into the relief fund of the Sindh government.
Women and children are the most vulnerable groups among those affected by the floods, thus Syeda Shehla Raza, the minister for women's development in Sindh and information secretary for the PPP Sindh, emphasised the need to pay particular attention to their needs.
She informed the group that food was plentiful in the shelters housing flood victims in Karachi. "However, we must pay greater attention to the concerns of women and children. We have already started working on the specialised products that women and children utilise.
As they are not required at the camps, she said, "We have requested that all humanitarian organisations send ration products to rural areas of Sindh. We need milk for the kids here in the camps, as well as items just for ladies.
Malir Muhammad Sajid Jokhio, a PPP MPA from Malir, shared the number of people who had relocated to various Karachi districts from rural Sindh in less than a week and noted that the trend was likely to continue because the recent floods had destroyed the infrastructure, resources, and sources of livelihood in the rural areas, and it would take time to rebuild them.
Around 25,000 flood victims from various Sindh regions are residing in the Malir district. A rough estimate is that between 3,000 and 4,000 people [from rural Sindh] arrive in Karachi every day, and he suggests that rather than providing them somewhere to stay across the city, "we can establish a tent city along the Northern Bypass."
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