Imamia Scouts Pakistan continue relief activities for quake victims

30 September, 2019 14:51

Residents walk alongside a damaged portion of a road caused by a powerful earthquake in Jatlan near Mirpur, in northeast Pakistan, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019. Thousands of people whose homes were damaged because of a strong earthquake are desperately waiting for the arrival of government help, 22 hours after the 5.8 magnitude tremor struck Pakistan-held Kashmir and elsewhere, killing 25 people and injuring 700. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Imamia Scouts Pakistan continue relief activities for quake victims since September 24. They have set up relief camps across Pakistan. Mainly, earthquake damaged parts of Azad Jammu and Kashmir.

Particularly, Imamia Scouts have made Lahore a centre of their relief activities. The Imamia volunteers are collecting donations in goods and cash.

On the other hand, Imamia Scouts Pakistan and ISO Jammu Division and City Unit officials have visited quake hit areas.

Notably, they surveyed Samwal Sharif, Pulmanda, Jatlan and Chichiyan. Furthermore, they gathered details of what the quake-stricken people need urgently.

Moreover, they are dispatching food items, clothings and blankets, et cetera et cetera to the affected survivors.

Meanwhile, Shia Islamic scholars also already called for help to the quake-affected people of Azad Jammu and Kashmir.

Although September 24 quake jolts many parts of nothern Pakistan, it played havoc with parts of AJK.

Factually, the shallow earthquake struck north-eastern Pakistan, tearing car-sized cracks into roads. That heavily damaged infrastructure.

The quake also made people in Lahore and Islamabad running into the streets.

According to the US geological agency USGS, the epicentre of the 5.2-magnitude quake was near the city of Mirpur.

Read More about earthquakes at National Seismic Monitoring Centre, Islamabad.